The Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner Graham Moore said that he was not gay after it was assumed that the writer was a homosexual because the main character in 'The Imitation Game' was gay.
The 34-year-old screenwriter said in an interview that he was not gay, but he never talked publicly about depression before or any of that and that was so much of what the movie was about, TMZ.com reported.
He said at the Oscars he had some connection to the character of Alan Turing because both of them had issues fitting in growing up.
Moore later added that according to him, everyone feels like "weirdos" for different reasons.
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