Olivia Colman, the Oscar-winning British actress, has said she has an affinity for projects like Heartstopper because she has \u201calways felt sort of non-binary.\u201d<\/p>\n
Colman said she has been honored to be welcomed by the queer community, and often feels like she has \u201ca foot in various camps,\u201d describing herself to her husband as a \u201cgay man.\u201d<\/p>\n
The actress made the comments in an interview with Them, during which she was promoting her movie Jimpa, which tells the story of a mother taking her non-binary teenager to visit her gay grandfather in Amsterdam. Directed by Sophie Hyde, it co-stars John Lithgow and Aud Mason-Hyde.<\/p>\n
Colman said: \u201cThroughout my whole life, I\u2019ve had arguments with people where I\u2019ve always felt sort of nonbinary. Don\u2019t make that a big sort of title! But I\u2019ve never felt massively feminine in my being female. I\u2019ve always described myself to my husband as a gay man. And he goes, \u2018Yeah, I get that.\u2019<\/p>\n
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\u201cSo I do feel at home and at ease. I feel like I have a foot in various camps. I know many people who do. I don\u2019t really spend an awful lot of time with people who are very staunchly heterosexual\u2026. The men I know and love are very in touch with all sides of themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
On her attraction to queer stories, she added: \u201cI think it\u2019s a community that I love being welcomed into. I find the most loving and the most beautiful stories are from that community. And I feel really honored to be welcomed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Colman\u2019s comments came as Mason-Hyde, who came to see Lithgow as \u201cin some capacity a mentor\u201d during Jimpa, said that the actor\u2019s casting as Albus Dumbledore in the HBO Harry Potter series \u201cfeels vaguely hurtful\u201d because of its links to trans rights critic J.K. Rowling.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is such an incredibly talented actor, but also such a beautiful human to make work with, and that was my experience with John,\u201d Mason-Hyde told OUT. \u201cI never felt invalidated or questioned or doubted in my identity or in my transness by him. I consistently felt that he was a very loving and a very guiding co-star.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mason-Hyde added: \u201cAnd so there\u2019s an element of this that feels vaguely hurtful. But also I think that he\u2019s making this decision after we had made the film and after we had premiered the film, can\u2019t take away from what we had and the time that we spent together and the beautiful work that he does in this movie and actually how incredibly authentically he played the role.\u201d<\/p>\n
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