"The Experience of Being an Outsider Is a Universal One": River Gallo and Esteban Arango on Ponyboi

On a dreary Valentine’s Day in New Jersey during the early aughts, intersex laundromat employee and sex worker Ponyboi (River Gallo) finds themselves embroiled in a bungled drug deal. Estranged from his family and afraid of coming clean to his best friend (Victoria Pedretti) and her husband (Dylan O’Brien)--also Ponyboi’s boss and clandestine sexual partner--he decides to go on the run and permanently escape the Garden State. Along the way, he crosses paths with a rugged kindly stranger wh...