Rebecca Romijn Reflects On Playing Trans Character on 'Ugly Betty': 'Never Would Be Cast In The Role Today'
justjared.comRebecca Romijn is looking back on her three-season run as Alexis Meade on ABC’s Ugly Betty.
If you recall, the now 50-year-old Star Trek: Strange Worlds actress played Alexis, the transgender sister of Eric Mabius‘ Mode EIC Daniel Meade.
In a new interview, Rebecca remembered “jumping” at the chance to play the character, but also knows it wouldn’t have been if Ugly Betty was cast today. Keep reading to find out more… Speaking to The Independent, Rebecca says ABC executives weren’t actually loving the character – until she was attached. “The executives at the time didn’t love the idea of the character,” she recalled. “There was a real boys’ club running the show behind the scenes at that point.
So to try and make it palatable to the boys’ club… they pitched me. And I jumped at the chance.” Rebecca knows she’d never “be cast in that role today, but I do feel like it helped open doors for the trans community.
