Emmy, Grammy and Tony award-winning actor Billy Porter is continuing to change and challenge perspectives when it comes to gender norms, this time in Kay Cannon’s forthcoming live-action iteration of Cinderella at Sony. The Pose star is set to play the fairy godmother in the feature, and in a recent interview with CBS he said that he plays the character as genderless.
“It hit me when I was on the set last week, how profound it is that I am playing the Fairy Godmother — they call it the Fab G,” Porter said in his CBS News interview. “Magic has no gender.”
He added that playing the role as genderless is “powerful” and that it is going to be “a classic fairytale for a new generation.”
“This is a classic, this is a classic fairytale for a new generation,” he said. “I think that the new generation is really ready.
“It hit me when I was on the set last week, how profound it is that I am playing the Fairy Godmother — they call it the Fab G,” Porter said in his CBS News interview. “Magic has no gender.”
He added that playing the role as genderless is “powerful” and that it is going to be “a classic fairytale for a new generation.”
“This is a classic, this is a classic fairytale for a new generation,” he said. “I think that the new generation is really ready.
- 3/5/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
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