Ben Aldridge as Matthew Venn and Declan Bennett as Jonathan Roberts in THE LONG CALL (2021)
I was raised... I was raised in fear and shame. I was raised to despise myself. I know it's what you believe. I know that you didn't mean to, or maybe you didn't see what I was, or even admit it to yourself, because I did a very good job of hiding it. Mum... If I could have turned myself straight, I would have. If I could have taken a pill, or if the praying had worked... Even after I left, I spent years just hiding myself, just working, doing everything I could to be good, to redeem myself. And it was sad and it was lonely and I spent years like that.
And then...
Then I met Jonathan. And he showed me that I didn't have to be scared all the time of people seeing who I really am. That I can be loved.
