Camila Sosa Villada: Last News

Challengers‘ Art & Patrick, there was Julio & Tenoch, the homoerotic friendship at the heart of Y Tu Mamá También, brought to life by IRL friends Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna.Since the film’s premiere in 2001, its stars have continued to be one of pop culture’s most adorable and enduring bromances, even reuniting on screen this year for Hulu’s Spanish-language series La Maquina, exploring the nature of masculinity in the girtty world of boxing.But it’s the BFFs next collab that has us especially excited, as Bernal and Luna go behind the camera to produce Thesis On A Domestication, a boundary-pushing queer/trans drama making its world premiere this week.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.The film is adapted from a forthcoming novel of the same same by trailblazing trans multi-hyphenate Camila Sosa Villada, who—in a meta move—herself stars as a successful trans actress at the height of her career.Amidst all the red carpet premieres and paparazzi, our protagonist surprises even herself when she finds love with a distractingly handsome Mexican lawyer (Sense8 and Ozark‘s Alfonso Herrera) who sweeps her off her feet—and is apparently happy to indulge in her kinkiest desires.As they build a life together, the two eventually get married, make a home for themselves, and even start to discuss the possibility of adopting a child. Suddenly, she’s facing the realities of monogamy and motherhood—ideas she never thought could be possible for her as a trans woman.