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Although she has been offered trans roles, the 25-year-old Euphoria actress no longer wants to accept them, because she believes that she can move forward in her career if her transsexuality was not the focus of her work – and this is what Hunter Schaeffer said, among other things. Other For GQ magazine In a certain interview.
Schiffer landed her first television role at age 19 on HBO's hit series Euphoria, playing transgender teen Jules Vaughn. Two seasons of the series have been completed so far, and filming for a third has been postponed since 2022. Schiffer, who was originally a visual artist and then a model, has landed two film roles: he starred in Cuckoo (our review here) and appeared in The Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes also stars as Tigris.
She told GQ that she knew the young trans character Jules, “written with depth, complexity, and care,” made a difference, especially at a time when trans youth across the United States were being disenfranchised. Last August, Schaeffer's home state of North Carolina became the 22nd state to pass a law restricting or prohibiting transgender minors from receiving gender-confirming medical care, with more young people across the country coming out as transgender.
Schiffer is himself an active advocate for LGBTQ rights, but says he looks forward to the moment when his identity is no longer the first thing people mention about him. That's why she no longer likes to talk about her transgenderism, especially in interviews – because in this case, she thinks it's inevitable that she won't be referred to as “transgender actress” in the title.
“It took me a while to learn that I didn't want to be like that, and I ultimately found it insulting to myself and what I wanted to do. Especially after high school, I was tired of talking about it. I've worked so hard to get where I am now. “I got through the really hard parts of the transition, and now I just want to be a girl and finally move on.”
“I've been offered a lot of trans roles, but I don't want to accept them. I don't want to talk about it.”
He added that he knows he is in a privileged position. “I know I'm one of the most famous trans people in the media right now, and I feel a little bit of responsibility and maybe a little bit of guilt for not being a louder voice. But at the end of the day, I really believe that if I don't focus on that, I can move forward. And I think moving forward and doing “With cool stuff for the ‘movement’ it would be much more beneficial than talking about it all the time.”
In the interview, the actress also talked about how she learned to accept and get rid of negative criticism of herself, and now she also accepts that there will always be people who hate her just because she is transgender and call her a man. “I'm not interested in trying to convince them anymore.” Schaeffer – although he may not know it – also had an unforgettable adventure with Origo. The actress so confused the editors of the well-known right-wing anti-transgender tabloid's top section and her set at last year's Oscars that they first removed photos of her referring to her as a “beautiful actress” and then quickly shut the door. They described her as “an actress active in the LGBTQ community,” then backtracked and renamed her as “a man who underwent surgery to become a woman.” The endless fun of running has been summed up in this article.
Hollywood has long debated whether trans actors can play transgender roles. Many in the transgender community argue that trans characters should be played by trans actors in real life. Others have argued that the concept of acting is about “becoming someone else” and that it would be too restrictive to allow actors only to take on roles that fit their personal characteristics.
Despite this, several actors have previously apologized for taking on trans roles. In 2021, Eddie Redmayne said of the 2015 film The Danish Girl, in which he played transgender painter Lili Elbe: “I made this film with the best intentions, but I think it was a mistake.” In 2018, Scarlett Johansson also pulled out of the film in which she was to play Dante “Tex” Gale, a transgender man, after being criticized by many for her casting. The actress later apologized because her first reaction to the criticism was to ask what Jeffrey Tambor, Jared Leto, and Felicity Huffman (the three actors who have played transgender characters in films) thought about the topic.
