To get the rights to embark on this project, Sachs reached out to Rosenkrantz on Instagram.
“We really hit it off.”
“Their tasks were very different,” noted Sachs.

Ben Whishaw in ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’.Credit:Courtesy of Sundance Institute
Maya Dehlin Spach/Getty
Want more movie news?
For Whishaw, however, the task was monumental and unlike any role he had ever prepared for previously.
“It was really difficult to learn it,” he said.

Ben Whishaw.Maya Dehlin Spach/Getty
It became very fascinating to learn, although very difficult."
“There’s this other story that developed between production and editing,” Sachs noted.
“Which is the emotional story between these two friends which seemed very, very specific.”

Ben Whishaw, Ira Sachs, and Rebecca Hall at EW’s 2025 Sundance Awardist Must List Party at.John Salangsang/Shutterstock
Peter Hujar’s Daydoes not yet have a distributor or release date.