‘Sebastian’: The Provocative Film Revolutionizing Gay Sex Work on Screen

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The director and star of “Sebastian,” the movie that steamed up Sundance with its frank depiction of gay sex work, tell Obsessed about their nakedly (literally) ambitious movie.

A still from Sebastian by Mikko Mäkelä showing Ruaridh Mollica and David Nellist.
Courtesy of Sundance Institute

PARK CITY, Utah—The sex in Sebastian happens early. Then it happens often.

We first meet a young man in his early twenties—thin, but fit and very handsome—having a stilted conversation in a living room with a man much older than him.

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