Dustin Lance Black Shares How Being Mormon and Gay Influenced ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’

Oscar-winning Milk writer Dustin Lance Black joins The Hollywood Reporter’s Top 5  podcast this week to discuss his FX limited series Under the Banner of Heaven. 

Black, who is openly gay and Mormon, opens up about the 10-year road to the screen for the project that originally started as a feature at Warner Bros.

 

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Black says:

Unless you believe we have reached the perfection of society, this is what we should be doing. If you have lived experience with injustice, you have an obligation to shine a light on it and to crack it open.

Black details the painstaking amount of research and interviews he did to tell the story and how the larger canvas allowed him to educate as well as entertain with the series:

I hope the church looks into its soul and thinks about what it has done and the great harm that exists when we teach kids that God is a misogynist.

Listen below.