#OrphanBlack’s Jordan Gavaris on LGBTQ+ Representation
“Responsibility has such a negative connotation to it, because it makes it feel like a burden, but there’s no responsibility in representing gay culture, it’s a joy. It’s a real joy to get to play people who are brave. The hardest thing in the world is to be who you are. To get to play somebody who is unabashed about who they are, it inspires you. It makes you brave in your work. It’s a source of inspiration.
[…] I think there’s a lot of mythology about what a man or a woman is supposed to be, a lot of mythology about what gay men and gay women are supposed to be. There’s just a lot of storytelling surrounding human beings and what sexuality and gender identity means to your value. It’s all a lie. And it’s a lie we’ve been told for many many years, and it’s destructive and exclusionary and I resent it.”
Read the full interview here: http://www.themarysue.com/tms-orphan-black-interview-1/