Hunter Schafer said she's turned down many trans roles and is saying she wants the public to stop focusing on her trans identity. In a new GQ cover story the 'Euphoria' star said, "I just want to be a girl and finally move on." She added that she's even hesitant to say the word "trans" in interviews.
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00:00 Hunter Schafer says she's turned down many trans roles and is saying she wants the public to stop focusing on her trans identity
00:06 In a new GQ cover story the euphoria store said I just want to be a girl and finally move on
00:12 She added that she's even hesitant to say the word trans in interviews
00:16 I don't want to be reduced to that and I find it ultimately demeaning to me and what I want to do
00:21 Especially after high school. I was sick of talking about it
00:24 I worked so hard to get to where I am past these really hard points in my transition
00:28 And now I just want to be a girl and finally move on
00:31 Schafer also discussed turning down roles saying I've gotten offered tons of trans roles and I just don't want to do it
00:37 I don't want to talk about it in high school
00:39 Schafer was highly publicized for being the youngest plaintiff in a lawsuit
00:43 challenging North Carolina's House bill - which banned trans people from using public bathrooms that didn't match the gender on their birth certificate it
00:51 Felt like I had to make my art a response to everything that was happening in North Carolina
00:55 But that's not really what I wanted to be making art about necessarily. I think I felt like oh, I'm trans
01:01 I should be making art about this the shift away from that focus has been very intentional for Schafer
01:06 It has not just happened naturally by any means if I let it happen
01:09 It would still be giving transsexual actress before every article ever elsewhere Schafer also opened up about her grief
01:16 Following the death of fellow euphoria actor Angus Cloud who died last summer at age 25 from an accidental drug overdose
01:23 I've never had a friend that I was that close to and that was my age past before it's really surreal
01:29 It doesn't make sense. And yeah, it's new
01:31 It's a new kind of grieving adding the cloud had been really one of the heartbeats of euphoria
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