Miles Heizer, the 31-year-old actor currently starring in Boots —the 1990-set Netflix series that follows a young gay man who enlists in the Marines before the corps permitted homosexuality—is walking through the 1 Hotel West Hollywood. He’s wearing a cocooning leather jacket and arced-inseam jeans. Dappled sunlight spills into the lobby, and trendy music thuds overhead.

If you’ve seen Boots , it’s a little dissonant to imagine Heizer’s character, Cameron Cope—an initially lonely, aimless teenager searching for purpose and direction in a life he cannot live as his full self—in such a stylish, contemporary scene. But moments after the actor introduces himself, it becomes evident that he and Cope aren’t so different after all: their shared mannerisms, denim-blue eyes, and quiet, innate

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