I don’t usually come out to the person I’m interviewing. Let alone twice.

But this time, for this film and this person, I felt compelled: “I am an identical twin, and I’m gay.”

“Wow, that’s a double disclaimer,” James Sweeney responds. “That’s amazing. Let’s go.”

Sweeney is the writer, director, and star of the new movie Twinless. He plays Dennis in the film, a gay man who meets a twin in a support group for people who have lost a sibling. Dylan O’Brien plays Roman, whose twin Rocky recently died, and he and Dennis become fast friends, bonding after one of the meetings. Rocky was gay, which becomes a connecting point for the new BFFs, as Dennis helps Roman heal from his loss.

There’s a twist though. And warning, it’s a huge spoiler, though it happens early in the film—but is necessar

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