{
  "id": 765643,
  "title": "‘The State of Us’ Directors on Platforming Positive Masculinity and Making a Gut-Wrenching British Indie: “You Have to Beg, Borrow and Steal”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/the-state-of-us-directors-on-platforming-positive-masculinity-and",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-13T12:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hollywood Reporter",
    "slug": "the-hollywood-reporter",
    "url": "https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/state-of-us-edinburgh-film-interview-howells-bottomley-uk-1236670057/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Ollie Gardner and Jake Harvey come to Edinburgh, Callum Scott Howells and Samuel Bottomley in tow, with a Pippa Cross-backed movie about the unspoken intimacy of male friendship: \"We [need to] start showing young men that you can love another man and it can be platonic and a really beautiful thing.\"",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}