Boy Swallows Universe: Trent Dalton and Netflix stars share behind the scenes info (Watch)

It is the love letter to Brisbane that shut down a whole street in the city’s heartland on Tuesday.

Hundreds of people packed into Barker St in inner-city New Farm for the red carpet premiere of Netflix’s seven-part adaptation of acclaimed author Trent Dalton’s best-selling novel Boy Swallows Universe, based loosely on his own early experiences. Dalton’s debut novel has sold more than a million copies worldwide and has already been adapted for the stage.

Walking the red carpet, the former journalist for The Australian said it was “absolutely surreal” to see his childhood portrayed on the screen.

The semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story follows teenager Eli Bell, whose younger iteration is played by Felix Cameron, trying to figure out how to become a good man while dealing with the realities of life, alongside his mute older brother August, played by Lee Tiger Halley.

The all-star Australian cast features Phoebe Tonkin as the boy’s recovering drug addict mum and Travis Fimmel as their drug-dealing stepfather.

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