Anna Camp on how she ends up on the gayt shows ever

HOW TAL OF THE CY AVOID A TRANS CASTG CONTROVERSYTHE NETFLIX REVIVAL OF A BELOVED QUEER SERI BRGS BACK OLYMPIA DAKIS AS ANNA MADRIGAL—AND, A CCIAL FLASHBACK EPISO, TRODUC TRANS ACTOR JEN RICHARDS AS A YOUNG ANNA.BY JOSEPH LONGOJUNE 6, 2019JEN RICHARDS TAL OF THE CY.BY ALISON COHEN ROSA/NETFLIX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHEN VETERAN ACTOR OLYMPIA DAKIS APPEARS NETFLIX’S UPG TAL OF THE CY, ’LL BE HER FOURTH TIME PLAYG ANNA MADRIGAL—THE BELOVED MATRIARCH OF 28 BARBARY LANE. DAKIS ORIGATED THE ROLE 1993, THE ORIGAL PBS MISERI ADAPTATN OF ARMISTEAD MP’S BELOVED NOVELS, WHICH QUICKLY BEME A CULT CLASSIC FOR S REVOLUTNARY PICTNS OF QUEER LIFE SAN FRANCIS. SHE REPRISED ANNA AGA THE 1998 AND 2001 FOLLOW-UP SERI. EIGHTEEN YEARS LATER, DAKIS IS ONE OF THE ONLY ACTORS TO APPEAR ALL ERATNS OF THE SAGA—ALONGSI LRA LNEY AND BARBARA GARRICK.THE NEW LIMED SERI KICKS OFF WH THE TENANTS OF BARBARY LANE THROWG THEIR BELOVED LANDLADY A 90TH BIRTHDAY PARTY. IN TYPILLY QUEER SAN FRANCIS STYLE, THERE’S DRAG QUEENS, TERACTIVE ART, AND, OF URSE, P AMOUNTS OF WEED. BUT THIS CELEBRATN FOR A SUBVERSIVE HEROE WH A BIG ASTERISK. DAKIS, 87 YEARS OLD, IS A CIS ACTOR PLAYG A TRANS CHARACTER—A MON SIGHT ON SCREENS BIG AND SMALL.THOUGH HE WON’T SPEAK FOR HIS LLEAGU—CLUDG MP AND TAL OF THE CY SHOWNNER LREN MORELLI, A FORMER WRER ON ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK—EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ALAN POUL, WHO HAS PRODUCED EVERY ERATN OF TAL, NEVER NSIRED STG ANYONE BIS DAKIS TO PLAY ANNA. “HAVG OLYMPIA WAS CRIL TO MAKG THE SHOW AGA,” HE SAID AN TERVIEW. “OLYMPIA IS CLEARLY GRANDFATHERED AND PAID HER DU.” JT AS IMPORTANTLY, HE NTUED, “OLYMPIA HAS CLEARLY EARNED THE RIGHT TO FISH OUT THE ROLE”—CG DAKIS’S “VERY BOLD” CISN TO PLAY A TRANS CHARACTER THE 1990S, A TIME WHEN THERE WAS LTLE TRANS REPRENTATN MEDIA.STILL, MORELLI SEEMS TO KNOW THAT DAKIS’S RETURN HAS THE POTENTIAL TO FFLE FEATHERS. “WE KNOW HOW STARVED THE YOUNGER, QUEER MUNY IS FOR THENTIC REPRENTATN,” SHE TOLD VANY FAIR MARCH. THE TEAM BEHD THE NEW LIMED SERI HIRED A PREDOMATELY QUEER ST AND CREW TO MAKE S STORY RG AS TE AS POSSIBLE; TRANS TALENT BEHD THE MERA CLUD WRER THOMAS PAGE MCBEE AND DIRECTORS SILAS HOWARD AND SYDNEY FREELAND. THE NEW TAL CLUS OF-THE-MOMENT STORY L, LIKE ONE WHICH MARGOT, A LBIAN CISGENR WOMAN, NSIRS HOW HER RELATNSHIP HAS CHANGED NOW THAT HER PARTNER, JAKE (PLAYED BY TRANS NONBARY ACTOR GARCIA), HAS TRANSNED.EVEN SO, THE YOUNGER QUEER MUNY’S PURSU OF THENTIC REPRENTATN OFTEN VOLV LLG OUT HOLLYWOOD FOR OUTDATED AND OUTMOD VIEWS AND PRACTIC. LAST YEAR TERRY CREWS WAS LAMBASTED FOR EQUATG TRANSGENR PEOPLE WH “TRANSRACIAL” PEOPLE, WHILE ELLEN DEGENER WAS CRICIZED FOR SUPPORTG KEV HART AFTER HIS OLD HOMOPHOBIC JOK RURFACED—AND NETFLIX’S “TRANS TRMA PORN” FILM, GIRL, SPURRED AN ENTIRE NEWS CYCLE OF S OWN. THERE’S A STRONG CHANCE THAT AT LEAST A FEW VIEWERS WON’T BE SO FIVG OF DAKIS’S LEGACY STG.YET POUL, WHO HAS ALREADY ADDRSED DAKIS’S PORTRAYAL OTHER TERVIEWS, ISN’T GOG TO BUDGE. “IF WE HAD RE-ST THE ROLE WH A TRANS ACTRS WHO ULD PLAY A 90-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN AN ENORMO UPROAR,” HE SAID. “THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A HUGE ACT OF DISRPECT AND SACRILEGE ON THE PART OF THE FANS, WHOM WE OWE A LOT.”STILL, POUL AND HIS FELLOW EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS TOOK PAS TO MAKE THE SERI’S LATT ERATN NTEMPORARY AND CLIVE. THEY REACHED OUT TO NICK ADAMS AT GLAAD TO HOLD ST SENSIVY TRAG. ADAMS, A TRANSGENR MAN, WORKS WH WORKS AND FILM STUDS TO TE THEM ABOUT CREATG SAFE WORKPLAC FOR TRANS TALENT AND WRG TRANS CHARACTERS WH NUANCE.WH AN RMED CREW AND AN OPENG EPISO CENTERED ON ANNA’S 90TH BIRTHDAY, THE LIMED SERI’S ARC QUICKLY ME TO VIEW. MORELLI AND HER WRERS SAW AN OPPORTUNY TO FALLY DIVE TO ANNA’S MYSTER PAST. THE ORIGAL 1993 SERI PICTS ANNA ALREADY LIVG ON BARBARY LANE, WHILE MP’S FAL BOOK, 2014’S THE DAYS OF ANNA MADRIGAL, FOLLOWS HER TEEN YEARS AS ANDY RAMSEY WNEMUC, NEVADA. THE -BETWEEN PERD—ANNA’S EARLY YEARS SAN FRANCIS—WERE RARELY ACKNOWLEDGED THE TAL BOOKS OR TV ADAPTATNS UNTIL NOW.THE NEW SERI, THOUGH, FEATUR A STUNNG FLASHBACK EPISO SET THE 1960S, PICTG ANNA’S ARRIVAL SAN FRANCIS. IN , CHARACTERS PLAYED BY DANIELA VEGA (OM THE OSR WNER A FANTASTIC WOMAN) AND A SLEW OF OTHER TRANS ACTORS TAKE ANNA UNR THEIR WG. THE EPISO CULMAT A FICTNAL PICTN OF THE VERY REAL, VERY IMPORTANT 1966 COMPTON’S CAFETERIA RT, A TONE CINT THE GAY-RIGHTS MOVEMENT THAT PRECED STONEWALL BY NEARLY THREE YEARS.AND THIS EPISO, ANNA ISN’T PLAYED BY A CIS WOMAN. “IF WE’RE TO ST A YOUNG ANNA, WE KNEW WE HAD TO FD A TRANS ACTRS,” POUL SAID. THE TEAM LOTED HER JEN RICHARDS, THE EMMY-NOMATED STAR AND -CREATOR OF HER STORY. “JEN, TO ME, WAS THE ONE ACTRS I FOUND WHO ULD BE CREDIBLE AS YOUNG ANNA, THE PERSON WHO WOULD THEN VERY MUCH BEE OLYMPIA,” HE ADD.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW LILY JAM AND JOE KEERY BEME OLD HOLLYWOOD INS FALLY DAWNBY DAVID CANFIELD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISIT DIDN’T HURT THAT RICHARDS IS A TRANS ACTIVIST, AS WELL AS A PERFORMER. IN 2016, SHE WAS AT THE CENTER OF ANOTHER NTROVERSY SURROUNDG CIS ACTORS PLAYG TRANS WOMEN: AN ELOQUENT TWTER THREAD, SHE EXPRSED HER TRATN AFTER MATT BOMER WAS ST AS A TRANS WOMAN THE FILM ANYTHG. RICHARDS LATER UPLOAD A YOUTUBE TTIMONIAL TAILG THE REAL-LIFE IMPLITNS OF CIS MEN PLAYG TRANS WOMEN, LIKE JARED LETO DALLAS BUYERS CLUB AND JEFEY TAMBOR TRANSPARENT. “THE KDS OF PICTNS ACTUALLY DO LEAD TO VLENCE AGAST TRANS WOMEN,” SHE SAID THE BUT WHEN ME TO DAKIS RETURNG AS ANNA MADRIGAL, RICHARDS HAD NO OBJECTN. “I NEVER REALLY HAD AN ISSUE WH CIS WOMEN PLAYG TRANS WOMEN,” SHE SAID AN TERVIEW. “FOR ME, THE NCERN IS: HOW DO THIS AFFECT TRANS WOMEN THE REAL WORLD? WHEN YOU WATCH OLYMPIA AS ANNA, YOU WALK AWAY WH THE SENSE THAT TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN.”OF TAL’ MANY TRANS CHARACTERS, NONE ARE PICTED G THE TROP THAT HAVE BEE MONPLACE ACROSS TV AND FILM: THERE ARE NO SPIRUAL MENTORS, OR TRAGIC SOULS, OR MPY IC RELIEF HERE. INSTEAD, THE CHARACTERS ARE NUANCED, AT TIM MSY, AND ALWAYS VERY REAL. AS THE FLASHBACK EPISO REVEALS, ANNA IS FAR OM PERFECT: SHE ALMOST IMMEDIATELY BETRAYS HER TRANS SISTERS. “PEOPLE WILL BE LIKE, ‘OH, SHE’S A FUCKED-UP, SELFISH WHE TRANS WOMAN,’” RICHARDS SAID. “I ALSO LOVE THE FACT THAT ’S NOT SO SIMPLE.”IN PLAYG A YOUNG ANNA, RICHARDS HAD TO EVOKE A 1960S HOEWIFE, ASSUMG THE RA OF OLYMPIA DAKIS WHILE ADDG HER OWN FLOURISH. “THAT’S TIMIDATG AS FUCK,” SHE SAID. “I FELY HAD A LTLE CRISIS OF NFINCE.”SHE NFID POUL, WHO PUT HER NTACT WH FELLOW TAL STAR LRA LNEY. THE TWO ACTORS SPENT THREE HOURS RICHARDS’S HOTEL ROOM HONG HER CHARACTER. RICHARDS’S VOICE IS NATURALLY HIGHER THAN DAKIS’S, SO LNEY HELPED WH LOWERG HER REGISTER WHILE REMAG RONANT. IN A TWIST OF IRONY, “YOU HAVE A TRANS WOMAN HAVG TO LOWER HER VOICE TO MATCH THE CIS WOMAN,” RICHARDS SAID WH A LGH. “BY THE END OF THOSE THREE HOURS WH LRA, I JT FELT THIS PART IS ME TOO.” SHE SE THE DUAL PORTRAYAL AS A BETIFUL BALANCE, “A KD OF WAY TO RETIRE THAT PORTRAYAL OF ANNA AND ENTER THIS NEW ONE.”RICHARDS AND DAKIS NEVER ACTUALLY MET OVER THE URSE OF FILMG TAL; WHENEVER RICHARDS STOPPED BY THE SET WHEN OTHER EPISOS WERE BEG SHOT, SHE SAID, DAKIS DIDN’T HAPPEN TO BE THERE. THEN AGA, “MAYBE WE WEREN’T MEANT TO MEET YET,” RICHARDS SAID. “I’M NOT PLAYG OLYMPIA. I’M PLAYG ANNA.”MORE GREAT STORI OM VANY FAIR— EXCLIVE: YOUR FIRST LOOK AT STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER— HOW PATRICIA ARQUETTE BEME THE QUEEN OF PRTIGE TV— INSI THE TUMULTUO MAKG OF ANIMAL HOE— WHY ONCE UPON A TIME… HOLLYWOOD MARKS A TELLG SHIFT FOR QUENT TARANTO— FROM THE ARCHIVE: OUR VERY FIRST HOLLYWOOD ISSUE, FEATURG TOM HANKS, JULIA ROBERTS, DENZEL WASHGTON, AND MORE!LOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.JOSEPH LONGO
THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS
ANNA CAMP ON HOW SHE ENDS UP ON THE GAYT SHOWS EVER

HOW TAL OF THE CY AVOID A TRANS CASTG CONTROVERSYTHE NETFLIX REVIVAL OF A BELOVED QUEER SERI BRGS BACK OLYMPIA DAKIS AS ANNA MADRIGAL—AND, A CCIAL FLASHBACK EPISO, TRODUC TRANS ACTOR JEN RICHARDS AS A YOUNG ANNA.BY JOSEPH LONGOJUNE 6, 2019JEN RICHARDS TAL OF THE CY.BY ALISON COHEN ROSA/NETFLIX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHEN VETERAN ACTOR OLYMPIA DAKIS APPEARS NETFLIX’S UPG TAL OF THE CY, ’LL BE HER FOURTH TIME PLAYG ANNA MADRIGAL—THE BELOVED MATRIARCH OF 28 BARBARY LANE. DAKIS ORIGATED THE ROLE 1993, THE ORIGAL PBS MISERI ADAPTATN OF ARMISTEAD MP’S BELOVED NOVELS, WHICH QUICKLY BEME A CULT CLASSIC FOR S REVOLUTNARY PICTNS OF QUEER LIFE SAN FRANCIS. SHE REPRISED ANNA AGA THE 1998 AND 2001 FOLLOW-UP SERI. EIGHTEEN YEARS LATER, DAKIS IS ONE OF THE ONLY ACTORS TO APPEAR ALL ERATNS OF THE SAGA—ALONGSI LRA LNEY AND BARBARA GARRICK.THE NEW LIMED SERI KICKS OFF WH THE TENANTS OF BARBARY LANE THROWG THEIR BELOVED LANDLADY A 90TH BIRTHDAY PARTY. IN TYPILLY QUEER SAN FRANCIS STYLE, THERE’S DRAG QUEENS, TERACTIVE ART, AND, OF URSE, P AMOUNTS OF WEED. BUT THIS CELEBRATN FOR A SUBVERSIVE HEROE WH A BIG ASTERISK. DAKIS, 87 YEARS OLD, IS A CIS ACTOR PLAYG A TRANS CHARACTER—A MON SIGHT ON SCREENS BIG AND SMALL.THOUGH HE WON’T SPEAK FOR HIS LLEAGU—CLUDG MP AND TAL OF THE CY SHOWNNER LREN MORELLI, A FORMER WRER ON ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK—EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ALAN POUL, WHO HAS PRODUCED EVERY ERATN OF TAL, NEVER NSIRED STG ANYONE BIS DAKIS TO PLAY ANNA. “HAVG OLYMPIA WAS CRIL TO MAKG THE SHOW AGA,” HE SAID AN TERVIEW. “OLYMPIA IS CLEARLY GRANDFATHERED AND PAID HER DU.” JT AS IMPORTANTLY, HE NTUED, “OLYMPIA HAS CLEARLY EARNED THE RIGHT TO FISH OUT THE ROLE”—CG DAKIS’S “VERY BOLD” CISN TO PLAY A TRANS CHARACTER THE 1990S, A TIME WHEN THERE WAS LTLE TRANS REPRENTATN MEDIA.STILL, MORELLI SEEMS TO KNOW THAT DAKIS’S RETURN HAS THE POTENTIAL TO FFLE FEATHERS. “WE KNOW HOW STARVED THE YOUNGER, QUEER MUNY IS FOR THENTIC REPRENTATN,” SHE TOLD VANY FAIR MARCH. THE TEAM BEHD THE NEW LIMED SERI HIRED A PREDOMATELY QUEER ST AND CREW TO MAKE S STORY RG AS TE AS POSSIBLE; TRANS TALENT BEHD THE MERA CLUD WRER THOMAS PAGE MCBEE AND DIRECTORS SILAS HOWARD AND SYDNEY FREELAND. THE NEW TAL CLUS OF-THE-MOMENT STORY L, LIKE ONE WHICH MARGOT, A LBIAN CISGENR WOMAN, NSIRS HOW HER RELATNSHIP HAS CHANGED NOW THAT HER PARTNER, JAKE (PLAYED BY TRANS NONBARY ACTOR GARCIA), HAS TRANSNED.EVEN SO, THE YOUNGER QUEER MUNY’S PURSU OF THENTIC REPRENTATN OFTEN VOLV LLG OUT HOLLYWOOD FOR OUTDATED AND OUTMOD VIEWS AND PRACTIC. LAST YEAR TERRY CREWS WAS LAMBASTED FOR EQUATG TRANSGENR PEOPLE WH “TRANSRACIAL” PEOPLE, WHILE ELLEN DEGENER WAS CRICIZED FOR SUPPORTG KEV HART AFTER HIS OLD HOMOPHOBIC JOK RURFACED—AND NETFLIX’S “TRANS TRMA PORN” FILM, GIRL, SPURRED AN ENTIRE NEWS CYCLE OF S OWN. THERE’S A STRONG CHANCE THAT AT LEAST A FEW VIEWERS WON’T BE SO FIVG OF DAKIS’S LEGACY STG.YET POUL, WHO HAS ALREADY ADDRSED DAKIS’S PORTRAYAL OTHER TERVIEWS, ISN’T GOG TO BUDGE. “IF WE HAD RE-ST THE ROLE WH A TRANS ACTRS WHO ULD PLAY A 90-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN AN ENORMO UPROAR,” HE SAID. “THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A HUGE ACT OF DISRPECT AND SACRILEGE ON THE PART OF THE FANS, WHOM WE OWE A LOT.”STILL, POUL AND HIS FELLOW EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS TOOK PAS TO MAKE THE SERI’S LATT ERATN NTEMPORARY AND CLIVE. THEY REACHED OUT TO NICK ADAMS AT GLAAD TO HOLD ST SENSIVY TRAG. ADAMS, A TRANSGENR MAN, WORKS WH WORKS AND FILM STUDS TO TE THEM ABOUT CREATG SAFE WORKPLAC FOR TRANS TALENT AND WRG TRANS CHARACTERS WH NUANCE.WH AN RMED CREW AND AN OPENG EPISO CENTERED ON ANNA’S 90TH BIRTHDAY, THE LIMED SERI’S ARC QUICKLY ME TO VIEW. MORELLI AND HER WRERS SAW AN OPPORTUNY TO FALLY DIVE TO ANNA’S MYSTER PAST. THE ORIGAL 1993 SERI PICTS ANNA ALREADY LIVG ON BARBARY LANE, WHILE MP’S FAL BOOK, 2014’S THE DAYS OF ANNA MADRIGAL, FOLLOWS HER TEEN YEARS AS ANDY RAMSEY WNEMUC, NEVADA. THE -BETWEEN PERD—ANNA’S EARLY YEARS SAN FRANCIS—WERE RARELY ACKNOWLEDGED THE TAL BOOKS OR TV ADAPTATNS UNTIL NOW.THE NEW SERI, THOUGH, FEATUR A STUNNG FLASHBACK EPISO SET THE 1960S, PICTG ANNA’S ARRIVAL SAN FRANCIS. IN , CHARACTERS PLAYED BY DANIELA VEGA (OM THE OSR WNER A FANTASTIC WOMAN) AND A SLEW OF OTHER TRANS ACTORS TAKE ANNA UNR THEIR WG. THE EPISO CULMAT A FICTNAL PICTN OF THE VERY REAL, VERY IMPORTANT 1966 COMPTON’S CAFETERIA RT, A TONE CINT THE GAY-RIGHTS MOVEMENT THAT PRECED STONEWALL BY NEARLY THREE YEARS.AND THIS EPISO, ANNA ISN’T PLAYED BY A CIS WOMAN. “IF WE’RE TO ST A YOUNG ANNA, WE KNEW WE HAD TO FD A TRANS ACTRS,” POUL SAID. THE TEAM LOTED HER JEN RICHARDS, THE EMMY-NOMATED STAR AND -CREATOR OF HER STORY. “JEN, TO ME, WAS THE ONE ACTRS I FOUND WHO ULD BE CREDIBLE AS YOUNG ANNA, THE PERSON WHO WOULD THEN VERY MUCH BEE OLYMPIA,” HE ADD.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW LILY JAM AND JOE KEERY BEME OLD HOLLYWOOD INS FALLY DAWNBY DAVID CANFIELD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISIT DIDN’T HURT THAT RICHARDS IS A TRANS ACTIVIST, AS WELL AS A PERFORMER. IN 2016, SHE WAS AT THE CENTER OF ANOTHER NTROVERSY SURROUNDG CIS ACTORS PLAYG TRANS WOMEN: AN ELOQUENT TWTER THREAD, SHE EXPRSED HER TRATN AFTER MATT BOMER WAS ST AS A TRANS WOMAN THE FILM ANYTHG. RICHARDS LATER UPLOAD A YOUTUBE TTIMONIAL TAILG THE REAL-LIFE IMPLITNS OF CIS MEN PLAYG TRANS WOMEN, LIKE JARED LETO DALLAS BUYERS CLUB AND JEFEY TAMBOR TRANSPARENT. “THE KDS OF PICTNS ACTUALLY DO LEAD TO VLENCE AGAST TRANS WOMEN,” SHE SAID THE BUT WHEN ME TO DAKIS RETURNG AS ANNA MADRIGAL, RICHARDS HAD NO OBJECTN. “I NEVER REALLY HAD AN ISSUE WH CIS WOMEN PLAYG TRANS WOMEN,” SHE SAID AN TERVIEW. “FOR ME, THE NCERN IS: HOW DO THIS AFFECT TRANS WOMEN THE REAL WORLD? WHEN YOU WATCH OLYMPIA AS ANNA, YOU WALK AWAY WH THE SENSE THAT TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN.”OF TAL’ MANY TRANS CHARACTERS, NONE ARE PICTED G THE TROP THAT HAVE BEE MONPLACE ACROSS TV AND FILM: THERE ARE NO SPIRUAL MENTORS, OR TRAGIC SOULS, OR MPY IC RELIEF HERE. INSTEAD, THE CHARACTERS ARE NUANCED, AT TIM MSY, AND ALWAYS VERY REAL. AS THE FLASHBACK EPISO REVEALS, ANNA IS FAR OM PERFECT: SHE ALMOST IMMEDIATELY BETRAYS HER TRANS SISTERS. “PEOPLE WILL BE LIKE, ‘OH, SHE’S A FUCKED-UP, SELFISH WHE TRANS WOMAN,’” RICHARDS SAID. “I ALSO LOVE THE FACT THAT ’S NOT SO SIMPLE.”IN PLAYG A YOUNG ANNA, RICHARDS HAD TO EVOKE A 1960S HOEWIFE, ASSUMG THE RA OF OLYMPIA DAKIS WHILE ADDG HER OWN FLOURISH. “THAT’S TIMIDATG AS FUCK,” SHE SAID. “I FELY HAD A LTLE CRISIS OF NFINCE.”SHE NFID POUL, WHO PUT HER NTACT WH FELLOW TAL STAR LRA LNEY. THE TWO ACTORS SPENT THREE HOURS RICHARDS’S HOTEL ROOM HONG HER CHARACTER. RICHARDS’S VOICE IS NATURALLY HIGHER THAN DAKIS’S, SO LNEY HELPED WH LOWERG HER REGISTER WHILE REMAG RONANT. IN A TWIST OF IRONY, “YOU HAVE A TRANS WOMAN HAVG TO LOWER HER VOICE TO MATCH THE CIS WOMAN,” RICHARDS SAID WH A LGH. “BY THE END OF THOSE THREE HOURS WH LRA, I JT FELT THIS PART IS ME TOO.” SHE SE THE DUAL PORTRAYAL AS A BETIFUL BALANCE, “A KD OF WAY TO RETIRE THAT PORTRAYAL OF ANNA AND ENTER THIS NEW ONE.”RICHARDS AND DAKIS NEVER ACTUALLY MET OVER THE URSE OF FILMG TAL; WHENEVER RICHARDS STOPPED BY THE SET WHEN OTHER EPISOS WERE BEG SHOT, SHE SAID, DAKIS DIDN’T HAPPEN TO BE THERE. THEN AGA, “MAYBE WE WEREN’T MEANT TO MEET YET,” RICHARDS SAID. “I’M NOT PLAYG OLYMPIA. I’M PLAYG ANNA.”MORE GREAT STORI OM VANY FAIR— EXCLIVE: YOUR FIRST LOOK AT STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER— HOW PATRICIA ARQUETTE BEME THE QUEEN OF PRTIGE TV— INSI THE TUMULTUO MAKG OF ANIMAL HOE— WHY ONCE UPON A TIME… HOLLYWOOD MARKS A TELLG SHIFT FOR QUENT TARANTO— FROM THE ARCHIVE: OUR VERY FIRST HOLLYWOOD ISSUE, FEATURG TOM HANKS, JULIA ROBERTS, DENZEL WASHGTON, AND MORE!LOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.JOSEPH LONGO

After mistakg the growg relatnship between Anna and Peyton for somethg else, Felix vandalized Peyton's locker wh a homophobic slur an attempt to protect his sister's reputatn. "Her e of the word 'gay' stead of 'bisexual' wasn't meant to imply that Anna is not bisexual.

For me, seemed like Felix was so homophobic, that for her to say 'I’m gay' to him felt even stronger for her. — Mark Schwahn on the cisn for the character to e out g the word 'gay'. If follows the path of most shows who troduce recurrg gay or bisexual characters, Anna will quickly fa away now that her After School Special moment is over.

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While was he protective of his sister Anna, Felix was revealed to be extremely homophobic after mors of Anna's sexualy began circulatg.

In a sorry attempt to protect his sister, Felix vandalized Peyton Sawyer's locker wh a homophobic slur after wnsg Anna and Peyton growg closer. The “Old Town Road” sger first me out as gay June 2019, sayg he felt that “the universe was signallg him to do so.

He add, “I thk the bt answer I have is I’m not not gay. Stranger Thgs actor Noah Schnapp me out as gay the most Gen-Z way: a TikTok. ” In text on top, he wrote, “When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years and all they said was ‘we know.

Shay Mchell talked about her sexualy 2017, a big topic of nversatn at the time bee of her character Pretty Ltle Liars, who was openly gay. “People always ask me, ‘You play a gay character? Are you gay?

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