11 LGBTQ Actors Who Influenced Their Characters, Showing Why Representation Matters
The Sound of Music when I was younger. The next thing I knew, an agent calls and says they don't want me for Artie, but they're creating this new role they wanted me to audition for instead," Chris recalled.“By existing and showing up and being a different person, a different identity that the writers may not have even known about before, I think in that way, I influenced Theo’s character,” they told MTV. “I showed that it was possible to just hold off a second, and to just live in the gray area.”Lena originally wasn't intending to write her story, previously telling BuzzFeed, "I'm a big fan of telling a story about queer people post-coming out, because the truth is we're more than our coming out story." However, after being asked about her coming out story in the writers' room, she thought, “This will be the one and only time I do this.
Let me do it right, let me knock it out the park, because I'm not going to tell that story again." Lena subsequently became the first Black woman to win an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series."They immediately gave me a call and said, 'We're interested in exploring this, but we want to do it the right way.
So do you want to do it?' And from then on I was almost like a consultant on the episode, and I really wanted to do things that felt specific to Latinx culture," Stephanie explained.She previously said of the episode, "I'm really happy with how it turned out, and obviously I feel so safe with Sam [Levinson] to just throw out any ideas.
He gets it down to a tee as far as who I am, and my values as a trans person, and what I'm looking for when I consume trans media.
