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Cover Story: Ashton Sanders in His Own Powerful Words

This article is taken from the Spring/Summer 2019 issue of Another Man:

“I was a little weirdo as a kid. My imagination was all over the place, I was definitely in my own world. I was born in Inglewood, California, but raised in Carson, California – which is basically south Los Angeles – in a predominantly black neighbourhood. I didn’t really contain a lot of friends growing up. I just did my own thing. Even now, I’m most comfortable organism by myself. Maybe that allowed my imagination to grow? I grew up an ‘other’, courteous of a shadowy sheep in my community. I don’t know if it was because I knew that I was an painter, and art in the black people at that hour was not considered the ideal thing for a childish black boy to be doing. I would be doing plays, not playing sports. Barriers are being broken now, but that was not really welcomed in black communities back then.

My father was very supportive of whatever I wanted to carry out creatively though. He was a fashion designer, he would go around sketching all the period, he was definitely an artist, packed circle. That help was a giant force getting me to where I’m at right now. That con

The Intimacy Issue: Ashton Sanders

This sort of vulnerability with the self is exactly what inspired our May digital cover—the Intimacy issue. In thinking about what entity intimate—both with others and with yourself—means during such strange times, we of course wanted to explore dildos, orgasms, and Chaturbate culture. It is office, after all.

But we also wanted to move beyond that. What perform our current conditions mean in terms of being intimate in all facets of the word—being intimate with your thoughts? With abstraction? With objects or ideas? Do you cringe at your overgrown hair when looking in the mirror and the Snapchat camera? How has isolation played a part in your want or desire to be intimate? Have you developed any new intimate relationships while in quarantine?

We asked 13 subjects to explore these ideas in a series of remotely-shot portraits and videos. We also asked each subject to compose a diary entry with this vulnerability in mind.

First up is 24-year-old actor Ashton Sanders.

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OFFICE – A scant weeks ago, you said you hadn’t met [Moonlight executive producer] Brad Pitt yet. Has it happened?

Ashton Sanders – No, I have not met Brad Pitt. [laughs] I know that he has a lot going on,I get it. But he did proceed to a reviewing in Los Angeles and Trevante and Barry were there, and they got to meet him. I’m like “Hey Brad, where you at Brad?” [laughs]

O – Moonlight is obviously massively acclaimed, and it’s basically been analyzed to death. But in your own words, what would you say that the movie is really about?

AS – I think that Moonlight is a extreme depiction of contemporary day masculinity. I would say it’s a film that shows people a different side of life, and a film that hopefully makes people assume about things in a different way. It’s very much a people’s production, a universal movie. People leave the theater a other person. This motion picture changes people—it’s just so human, and so real.

O – The film does such an astonishing job of deconstructing masculinity. It’s broken down in such a way that you can observe its toxic effects very clearly. What do you ponder the film is really saying about masculinity, about ebony masculinity in particular

Ashton Sanders: beyond the moon

You can buy a imitate of our latest issue here. Taken from the spring 2017 issue of Dazed:

Upon meeting Ashton Sanders in person, the first thing that hits you is his poise. I spot him from a distance in a clear green suit, black turtleneck and white sneakers; when we greet, he has a deep, commanding voice that belies his boyish face. Whereas the nature he plays in Barry Jenkins’ Moonlightis self-conscious and brimming with sorrow, Sanders walks into the expansive lobby of the James Hotel looking like he owns the building.

“Moonlight has changed my life externally, but also internally... spiritually as well,” the adolescent actor describes. “Mentally.”

Although Moonlight isn’t Sanders’ first production, it is undoubtedly his major movie debut. Taking on the role of Chiron, the 21-year-old plays the lead character in a triptych narrative, the second of three performances depicting the  life of one troubled soul struggling  to accept his homosexuality against  the decaying backdrop of south  Florida’s urban sprawl. Chiron is  played in childhood by Alex Hibbert  and in adulthood by Trevante Rhodes. Of the three, Sanders’  teenage Chiron is bur