Of course, what makes the relationship between Trevante Rhodes and Moonlight more interesting is just how the actor was involved with the production.
So while Rhodes obviously has a deeply personal connection to the film, he also has a particular distance from a good portion of it — and it seems that distance has allowed him to appreciate it genuinely as one of his favorite pieces of cinematic art.
While still given a full sense of the film, he only spent two weeks on set filming what would end up being his third of the movie, and during photography he never met either Alex Hibbert or Ashton Sanders (the two young actors who played the younger versions of his character, Chiron).