Jack Cameron Kay To Star In Queer Love Story ‘Until The Time We Die’ From Daniel Talbott

EXCLUSIVE: Jack Cameron Kay, an actor recently seen in the Netflix series Boots and Jordan Firstman’s Cannes-premiering A24 film Club Kid, has attached to star in Until the Time We Die, a New Orleans-set queer love story from writer-director Daniel Talbott.

Talbott’s film centers on Taylor (Kay), who lives on his own in the house where he was raised, his parents both gone. He travels far out of New Orleans each week to care for his wayward older brother Cody — their family, a tightly closed island of two. When his brother makes a decision that breaks open his life and leaves Taylor utterly alone, he emerges from the smallness of his existence and ventures into the chaos and swirl of the French Quarter and greater New Orleans, whose eclectic inhabitants, lost souls, and fellow travelers will either drown him or help him toward some new shore of possibility.

Felix Mack and Talbott’s Orphan Andy Films are set to produce.

“This film is naked, vulnerable, and scarred,” Talbott said. “It was born from my first deep love with a guy, the first boy I kissed, taking his life in a small cabin in the woods. I wanted to write a queer love story about a kid who cascades through the hellscape this world can be for queer kids, and who makes it in the end. Not just makes it, but soars.”

Kay told Deadline, “When I first read this script, I was immediately struck by how vivid and alive the characters are, as well as by the richness of the world they inhabit. It’s an honor to be involved, and I look forward to starting work on this.”

Kay was most recently seen in the role of Jones in Boots, Netflix’s queer Marine Corps boot camp drama series from creator Andy Parker. He is currently in rehearsals for the American premiere of the stage adaptation of Brokeback Mountain at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where he is taking on the role of Jack Twist, played by Jake Gyllenhaal in the film and Mike Faist in the London production. He also has a role in the Cannes buzz title Club Kid and is represented by Innovative Artists and Authentic Talent and Literary Management.

An award-winning writer-director and co-curator of The Black Cat Cinema Series, Talbott’s first feature co-written and co-directed with Samantha Soule, Midday Black Midnight Blue, premiered at SIFF in Seattle and was released by Good Deed Entertainment. His upcoming slate includes the film Gray in development in Denmark with Motor Productions, the horror-drama pilot Rome, Georgia starring Mary-Louise Parker, limited series To the Light with Saga Film, documentary Welcome to Tool Shed, and Born Again, a LGBTQ+ drama that he created and is co-showrunning with Stephen Laughton. He is repped by Signature Ltd.