In Netflix's new series Trinkets, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming actor Quintessa Swindell plays Tabitha Foster - a " cisgender young femme" - but for Schafer, neither she nor her character present themselves as cisgender. "We're so much more complex than just one identity." "There need to be more roles where trans people aren't just dealing with being trans they're being trans while dealing with other issues," Schafer told Variety. Just as Schafer is proud to be transgender and doesn't wish to be confused as a cisgender woman, Jules is confident in who she is, and rather than struggling with her gender identity, her struggles are just like those of the cisgender teens around her. "I'm trans," Jules says, and though this doesn't seem to be a revelation for Rue, this is somewhat of a revelation for the audience, who has yet to hear Jules's gender identity acknowledged via dialogue. Rue tries to convince Jules to meet up with her online lover in a public place, but Jules retorts that she doesn't have the luxury of flaunting her relationships in public like Rue - a cisgender woman - has. In the scene in question, Jules and Rue argue about whether it's safe for Jules to meet up with Shyguy118, the guy she's fallen for online (though, little does she know, that guy is actually violent jock Nate, the son of "DominantDaddy" Cal). When Rue muses, "I'd never known anyone like Jules before," it has greater meaning than you think, and a conversation between Jules and Rue in the third episode clears up the question of Jules's gender identity for once and for all. Just like her character, Schafer is also a transgender woman, though up until episode three, it isn't clear to viewers whether Jules is a cis or transwoman (save for her penchant for using a gay dating app to meet men, as well as a blink-and-you-miss-it scene in the pilot episode where Jules is seen injecting hormones into her thigh). In the raunchy series, Schafer plays Jules, who is also transgender, and a new girl in town with whom Rue (who's played by Zendaya) quickly develops a bond - though whether that bond is more platonic or romantic is yet to be determined. (There’s a fair amount of nudity, hard-core drug use, and explicit sex, even in the first episode.) Whether viewers were moved by each episode’s brutal honesty or overwhelmed by the barrage of gaspworthy scenes, Euphoria had everyone talking.Euphoria may have given transgender actress and model Hunter Schafer her first major role, but we guarantee this won't be the last you see of her. In the wake of Euphoria’s June debut, there’s been a flurry of sensational reviews, most of them either celebrating the breakout cast’s portrayal of such complicated and wildly attractive high schoolers or criticizing the show’s explicit content. “In a way, filming Euphoria was like a year of college, learning this new craft and getting to build on it every day,” she says. I had never been on an audition before." Nonetheless, she dove headfirst into the material, and with every callback (there were “at least five”), she grew more attached to the role.Įven though her college plans were derailed once again, Schafer doesn’t feel as though she’s missing out on an education. So I decided to give it a shot." She continues, "I didn’t know what I was doing. “A few days later, I got a call from my agent saying that the network requested I come in for it. “I had seen the casting call floating around on Instagram,” she recalls. I was living paycheck to paycheck.” But just as she contemplated leaving modeling and heading to school, she saw another opportunity: auditioning for a then–unnamed HBO series. As a model, she says, “I worked with some of my favorite designers on the planet, but I never really made a lot of money.
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