Eve Lindley dishes on her wildest job ever, ‘Sex And The City’ & queer cowboy movie ‘National Anthem’
Luke Gilford‘s feature directorial debut, National Anthem—which has been winning over film festival audiences since its debut at SXSW last year—Eve Lindley had to saddle up and learn how to ride horseback to play a rodeo star.But the actress learned how to lasso our hearts long before the queer Western, charming in screen roles big and small, including Netflix‘s Tales Of The City sequel series, the USA Network thriller Mr.
Robot, HBO’s stoner anthology High Maintenance, and the sci-fi drama film After Yang.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Her big breakthrough came in AMC’s Dispatches From Elsewhere in 2020—playing the romantic lead opposite Jason Segel—the mind-bending drama which was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Limited / Anthology Series.
And, in the 2022, she was part of the ensemble of Billy Eichner‘s big gay rom-com, Bros, managing to stand out in scenes with some hilarious co-stars like Ts Madison, Dot-Marie Jones, and Jim Rash.Sometimes the characters she plays are identified as trans and sometimes they aren’t, but no matter the part, Lindley always pushes for fuller, deeper representation in her work. “[My transness] is a part of me, but there are so many other parts,” she told Vox in 2020. “I feel like a lot of us are pretty desperate for people to see the other parts because the other parts are kind of more interesting or make us who we really are, as opposed to this genetic disposition.”With that in mind, before National Anthem makes its next festival bow at the Chicago Critics Film Fest on May 9, we decided to have Lindley as the latest guest of our rapid-fire Q&A series, Dishin’ It, to get to know a little bit more about her.
In our conversation, the actress opens up about what Sex And The City taught her about friendship, the childhood crush that still makes her want to move to a treehouse, and her NSFW memories working with Ts Madison on Bros.A post.
