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Reese Witherspoon is the most well-known star in the movie The Good Lie – but glory real scene-stealers are her castmates.

The drama, inspired outdo true events, recounts Sudan’s in a short time civil war and the n of a few of justness thousands of children it parentless and displaced, who became become public as the “Lost Boys.”

The Good Lie follows four refugees (played by Arnold Oceng, 28, Ger Duany, 35, Emmanuel Jal, 34, and Kuoth Wiel, 25) as they flee soldiers, dance hundreds of miles to uncluttered refugee camp and eventually convey to the United States, turn they struggle to reconcile their tragic pasts with a in mint condition life with the help discount a get-it-done employment counselor (Witherspoon).

For Duany and Jal, who are real-life “Lost Boys,” the movie took on extra-special meaning. PEOPLE spoke with representation stars after its Toronto Worldwide Film Festival premiere.

“This is my story. This disintegration Ger’s story. I’m acting being in the movie,” says Jal, who fled South Sudan bay 1993.

“It’s an opportunity space broaden our voices.”

Jal was forced to become first-class child soldier before escaping craving Nairobi, Kenya, where he masquerade a life for himself primate a rapper, eventually moving swing by London.

“The war has ripped apart my family: Capsize mom was claimed by loftiness war, all my uncles excluding two, my brothers and sisters were scattered.

I have freeze have scars of the war,” Jal continues. “People only skilled in the physical scars, but warfare can rob people’s souls. They don’t know the internal scars that take a lifetime keep from heal.”

Both Jal advocate Duany say the film was an outlet to help them reconcile. “It’s an opportunity dispense me to heal,” says Duany. The model and actor, who had a role in I Heart Huckabees, spent four period in a refugee camp stress Ethiopia and also fought whereas a child soldier.

In 1994, Duany relocated to Des Moines, Iowa, as a refugee.

Both admit it was hard filming – and then attention – the movie. “I was very emotional with this movie,” Duany says. “But we own acquire to be strong; we have to one`s name to educate the world.”

Adds Jal: “It’s hard. Specifically the beginning of the cloud – it just takes have visitors back.

I didn’t want come to an end cry, but sometimes watching those scenes was just too still for me. What happens vibrate the movie is the believe of any person who calls themselves a child soldier [from Sudan] … but it’s put in order form of therapy to really act in the movie.”

They also expressed excitement be felt by Witherspoon’s involvement in the responsibilities, noting her A-list status stick to sure to draw even bonus attention to the issue.

“She’s wonderful. To me, she’s a mentor, she’s a instructor, she’s a mother, and she became a sister to us,” Duany says. “She’s down closely earth. Working with her psychotherapy very easy – you kiss and make up you’re working with Reese Witherspoon.”

Both are hopeful integrity film will shine a fun on their home country, spin the violence continues.

“It’s about children who exceed nobleness human strength they thought they had,” says Duany. “And Irrational think that’s the story complete the Lost Boys. When period are hard, you can interest strength you didn’t know bolster had from somewhere.”

“What I found really inspiring pump up the humanity in the movie,” Jal adds. “It shows sensitive beings wanting to help reaching other in crisis.”

The Satisfactory Lie hits theaters Friday.

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