{"id":155998,"date":"2021-09-15T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=155998"},"modified":"2021-09-15T01:54:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T05:54:36","slug":"trailer-for-venus-as-a-boy-starring-ty-hodges-olivia-culpo-trace-lysette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/trailer-for-venus-as-a-boy-starring-ty-hodges-olivia-culpo-trace-lysette\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer For &#8216;VENUS AS A BOY&#8217; Starring Ty Hodges, Olivia Culpo, &#038; Trace Lysette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u201cVenus as a Boy\u201d<\/strong> is written and directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ty_Hodges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ty Hodges<\/a>, and stars Ty Hodges, Olivia Culpo (\u201cI Feel Pretty\u201d), Trace Lysette (\u201cTransparent\u201d), Bai Ling (\u201cThe Crow\u201d), and musicians Estelle and Stacy Barthe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div id=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-counter-1\" class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper \" style=\"width:662px;\" data-g1-fluid-width=\"662\" data-g1-fluid-height=\"372\">\n\t       <div class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-inner\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.19335347432%;\">\n\t       <div class=\"mace-youtube\" data-mace-video=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PrWZPEMf02Q?showinfo=0&#038;rel=1&#038;ytp-pause-overlay=1&#038;autoplay=1&#038;enablejsapi=1\" data-mace-video-thumb=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/PrWZPEMf02Q\/hqdefault.jpg\"><div class=\"mace-play-button\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t       <\/div>\n\t       <\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2020\/02\/writer-director-ty-hodges-to-star-with-olivia-culpo-in-romantic-drama-venus-as-a-boy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">film<\/a> follows Hunter (Hodges), a freewheeling artist navigating heartbreak, addiction, and LA\u2019s impossibly hip gallery scene. After refusing to sell a painting to an eager buyer, a chance encounter leads him to Ruby (Culpo), a gorgeous and successful Instagram influencer reeling from the recent death of her father. Polar opposites attract and after spending an intimate weekend together, Hunter\u2019s life is completely enmeshed with Ruby\u2019s. The indie film offers a personal and poetic examination of masculine and feminine, ego and alter ego.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lost Ones, a newly launched production company, will release VENUS AS A BOY<\/strong> <strong>on video-on-demand September 24th<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 1 1'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/VENUS-AS-A-BOY-Poster-791x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Venus as a Boy\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-156001\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 1 1'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/VENUSASABOY_ADRIANPRUETT_03-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Venus as a Boy\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-156003\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 1 1'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/VENUSASABOY_ADRIANPRUETT_10-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"Venus as a Boy\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-156010\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 1 1'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/VENUSASABOY_ADRIANPRUETT_02-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-156002\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 1 1'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/VENUSASABOY_ADRIANPRUETT_08-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-156008\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Multi-hyphenate Ty Hodges is an Actor\/Writer\/Director\/Musician of Barbadian and Trinidadian descent. Ty was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 358 536'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Ty-Hodges-Headshot-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-156000\" width=\"358\" height=\"536\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ty landed the starring role in Janet Jackson\u02bcs music video&nbsp;<em>Go Deep<\/em>&nbsp;(1997), then became a Disney actor for five years, most notably in the roles of Larry Beale in the Emmy-nominated &#8220;Even Stevens&#8221; (2000) and Larry Houdini in DON&#8217;T LOOK UNDER THE BED (1999).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2006, Ty added writing and directing to his repertoire with his award winning feature film MILES FROM HOMES (2006), which garnered film festival awards for writing, directing, and for his performance in the lead role. He has written and directed seven features since then: YOU, ME &amp; THE CIRCUS (2011) for Omar Epps\u02bc production company Brooklyn Works Films; VIDEO GIRL (2011) starring Meagan Good and Ruby Dee; CHARLIE, TREVOR AND A GIRL SAVANNAH (2015) starring Emily Meade; and A GIRL LIKE GRACE (2016), which stars Meagan Good, Garcelle Beauvais, Raven-Symon\u00e9, Romeo Miller, Paige Hurd, and Ryan Destiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cVenus as a Boy\u201d is written and directed by Ty Hodges, and stars Ty Hodges, Olivia Culpo (\u201cI Feel Pretty\u201d), Trace Lysette (\u201cTransparent\u201d), Bai Ling (\u201cThe Crow\u201d), and musicians Estelle and Stacy Barthe. The film follows Hunter (Hodges), a freewheeling artist navigating heartbreak, addiction, and LA\u2019s impossibly hip gallery scene. After refusing to sell a [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/trailer-for-venus-as-a-boy-starring-ty-hodges-olivia-culpo-trace-lysette\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":156004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,20,142],"tags":[34193,34986,17449,19972,28911,8602,34985],"reaction":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-155998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-read","8":"category-trailers","9":"category-videos","10":"tag-bai-ling","11":"tag-estelle","12":"tag-olivia-culpo","13":"tag-stacy-barthe","14":"tag-trace-lysette","15":"tag-ty-hodges","16":"tag-venus-as-a-boy"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trailer For &#039;VENUS AS A BOY&#039; Starring Ty Hodges, Olivia Culpo, &amp; Trace Lysette - blackfilm.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Venus as a Boy offers a personal and poetic examination of masculine and feminine, ego and alter ego. 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