Lucas Hedges greets me with the exaggerated "heeeyyyy" of an old friend — maybe the friend you made in your Catholic school's theater department, or the friend you fell in love with after your ...

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's get back to my interview with Lucas Hedges, who is having an incredible month, professionally. This morning he was nominated ...

For Peter Hedges, casting his Oscar-nominated son Lucas Hedges in his latest movie Ben Is Back wasn’t about opportunity, rather catharsis. The 56-year old filmmaker’s reasons for tackling a ...

For Lucas Hedges, acting is a kind of ongoing education in how to live in the world. Take his performance as a troubled and mordant young man who’s just lost his father in Kenneth Lonergan’s ...

It was a father-and-son moment when Ben Is Back writer-director Peter Hedges was joined on Deadline’s The Contenders New York stage by son Lucas Hedges, who plays the title role in dad’s film ...

Lucas later made it clear he wanted to make ... In the course of a wide-spanning interview Hedges spoke with candor about everything from his growing opportunities ("Honestly, there's no shortage ...

Photo: Sony Pictures Classics In French Exit, Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges play Frances and Malcolm Price, a mother-son duo who come across as if they’re the only ones in on a private ...

Lucas Hedges is consistently good in everything he does -- with the Oscar nomination secured at age 20 to prove it -- but he is never better than when he's with his ladies: First, there was ...

In “Boy Erased,” “Lady Bird” actor Lucas Hedges plays a teenage son ... And in a New York Magazine interview, Hedges explained that he’s “not totally straight.” ...