British soap hunk David Tag shows a new side of himself in this steamy dramedy about toxic relationships

Image Credit: ‘Departures,’ BFI Flare

We’ve all seen our fair share of movies that tout themselves as “based on a true story,” and that’s all well and good. But “based on a real heartbreak”? Now that‘s how you sell a movie!

Gay British filmmaker Lloyd Eyre-Morgan (EastEnders) channels all of the complicated emotions from one of his real-life breakups into his new comedy-drama Departures, which looks back on and dissects a passionate yet toxic relationship between two men.

“I was in a bit of a sh*tstorm when I wrote this, to be honest,” he shared in an exclusive interview with Attittude. “There was a lot of change happening in my life, and I was drowning in grief, so I did what any emotionally unstable writer

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