The Director And The Writer Of ‘Moonlight’ Grew Up In The Same Neighborhood And Circumstances, And Didn’t Meet Until Their 30s

“Barry Jenkins is compact, bald, bespectacled and bookishly handsome. Tarell Alvin McCraney is much taller, with an immaculately groomed beard and stylish green Adidas sneakers … Mr. Jenkins is straight; Mr. McCraney said he considers himself ‘gay-identified.’ Yet their childhood experiences were so similar, their lives so parallel, that you could mix up many facts of their biographies and they’d still be true.”