![]() Ideally, we'll find enough sponsors and do our own thing online. As far as distribution, it's still so early that we don't quite know where we will wind up. With this project it'll be interesting to see how we navigate funding. But I'm sure we won't because we have so many trans people involved in the production. What do you think this will mean for the trans community? The first challenge is making sure we don't offend anyone in the trans community with what we're doing. I sent them some info and clips from the scenes and let them know what we were trying to do. No, I simply just asked if they were interested in being a part of history. How did you get all of the trans icons on board? I have incredibly incriminating photos of all of them. It's the people who have no idea they're being revolutionary who do so. I think people who set out to be revolutionary rarely are because it's hard to climb those mountains. We just set out to make a great show about four younger people, but we thought it was crazy that no one's ever done this before. And I found out by accident that we would be the first animated series with a trans actress in the lead role. I set out to have fun, and in January of this year, we had already cast and we were two weeks from recording. I didn't set out to do anything revolutionary. How does it feel to have created a show that will be the first of its kind? I still think South Park is great, and they still regularly write things that make you laugh and think. I think the first seven or eight years of The Simpsons were absolute gold. What has been your favorite animated series over the years? Well, I was definitely into cartoons as a kid, so I guess my fallbacks were that Hanna-Barbera stuff like Scooby-Doo. We're incredibly lucky even on the music front with Siamese Spots, a band made up of two trans women, and Spectacular Spectacular. In the end, it will form a sentence, and so there's a very rich tapestry made up of trans men and women giving their talents. Each word by itself won't make sense by itself, but it will to our viewers who are listening and taking note. It's going to be said by a chorus of trans icons like Fallon Fox, Jenna Talackova, and more. I'm not trying to tell every trans woman's journey, but we created a character that encompasses many of those things.Īt the end of every single episode, we'll also hear a word said as we fade to black. They really opened up to doors for what I was already doing.Įvery person's journey is unique to them and so is every trans woman's journey. About a year ago, it still hadn't taken off, but I think with the influence of Laverne and Transparent, it lit the touch paper. When it got to fleshing out Gen Zed, I wanted to do that trans character. All the opportunities I've ended up with I kind of had to hustle for myself. I've never had an agent or representation. What do you think about the uptick in trans representation with Laverne Cox on OITNB, Jamie Clayton on Sense8, Amazon's Transparent, and more? Did they influence you? It didn't really influence me too much because I had been working on this character since about six years ago, but there was nothing I could do with her at the time. ![]() We're human, and that will not and has not changed. My take is that since we've come down from the trees, I think the only things that have changed are human hygiene and technology! Everything else is basic human behavior. In my teenage years, the hallmark of youth was Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." Has that changed? Of course not, girls and guys still just want to have fun. So it's a combination of doing some research on the latest stuff and there's something that will never change, which is human emotion, and if you just remember what it was like as a young person, it never goes away. Sponsors are not going to have the first clue what fleek means, and my thing is they shouldn't. It appears, I think, in episode 4 and it's 30 seconds long. And so now it's already moved on and people are on something else. Four or five months have passed since then, and I saw it on The Daily Show and other shows, so clearly it's making its mark on the general consciousness. There were millions of response videos and it just continued to become a part of the larger language. Long after the scripts had been written, a millennial 20-year-old pointed me to a video about the girl talking about her "eyebrows on fleek in this bitch." My initial reaction was, "What the fuck?" It flew over my head in every conceivable way. How was it bridging the gap between your generation and millennials? Because you're not a millennial, right? It's twofold.
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