Peacock Presents World Premiere Event of It’s Highly Anticipated Original Film “They/Them”.

Peacock Presents World Premiere Event of It’s Highly Anticipated Original Film “They/Them”.

Attendees Included Creator, Director, Writer and Executive Producer John Logan, Executive Producer and Star Kevin Bacon, and Stars Carrie Preston, Theo Germaine, Austin Crute, Quei Tann, Monique Kim, Darwin Del Fabro, Cooper Koch, Anna Lore.

Los Angeles, CA – On Sunday, July 24, Peacock hosted the world premiere event of its highly anticipated Peacock Original film THEY/THEM at The Theatre at Ace Hotel DTLA.

Guests included Creator, Director, Writer and Executive Producer John Logan, Executive Producer and star Kevin Bacon, and stars Carrie Preston, Theo Germaine, Austin Crute, Quei Tann, Monique Kim, Darwin Del Fabro, Cooper Koch, and Anna Lore. The event featured an exclusive screening of the film delivered to a full house of enthusiastic festival attendees and horror fans. Prior to the screening Perfume Genius surprised the crowd with a celebratory live performance and following the screening guests attended Peacock’s after-party hosted at the Ace Hotel Rooftop in Downtown LA. They were fully immersed into the THEY/THEM world.

SYNOPSIS:
Kevin Bacon plays Owen Whistler in this slasher horror film set at an LGBTQIA+ conversion camp. Several queer and trans campers join Whistler for a week of programming intended to “help them find a new sense of freedom”. As the camp’s methods become increasingly more psychologically unsettling, the campers must work together to protect themselves. When a mysterious killer starts claiming victims, things get even more dangerous.  

CAST & CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS:
• Kevin Bacon (he/him) plays Owen Whistler, the conversion camp director who runs Whistler Camp alongside several counselors including his wife, Cora.   
• Anna Chlumsky (she/her) plays Molly, the camp’s medic and newest employee. 
• Carrie Preston (she/her) plays Cora Whistler, a licensed therapist in charge of the campers’ therapy sessions, and the wife of camp director Owen Whistler.  
• Theo Germaine (they/them) plays Jordan, a transgender and non-binary camper from a religious background who has made a deal with their parents to legally emancipate if attending Whistler doesn’t “work.” Quei Tann (she/her) plays Alexandra, a transgender woman whose parents have threatened to kick her out of the house if she didn’t attend the camp. 
• Quei Tann (she/her) plays Alexandra, a transgender woman whose parents have threatened to kick her out of the house if she didn’t attend the camp.  
• Austin Crute (he/him) plays Toby, a gay camper who negotiated with his parents for a trip to New York in exchange for a week at Whistler Camp. 
• Monique Kim (she/her) plays Veronica, a bisexual camper who wants to stop fighting who she really is.  
• Anna Lore (she/her) plays Kim, a closeted lesbian camper who puts on a perfectly crafted front for her family and friends, assuming that when she fits in, she’ll finally be loved. 
• Cooper Koch (he/him) plays Stu, a jock with aspirations of a swim scholarship and joining his father’s fraternity – things he doesn’t feel he can achieve if he’s open about being gay. 
• Darwin Del Fabro (he/him) plays Gabriel, a sensitive gay camper tired of the persistent name-calling and bullying he’s endured his entire life.