Oppenheimer star Nick Dumont on coming out: ‘I love being trans’

Nick Dumont (Image: Instagram/@emmadumont)

Nick Dumont, the actor who plays Jackie Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s 2023 historical epic Oppenheimer, has spoken out about recently coming out as nonbinary.

In an interview with Out, the actor spoke of their journey towards accepting their gender identity, recalling a particularly pivotal experience playing a trans teenager in a TV pilot.

“Around 19, I was cast as an AFAB trans teenager in a TV pilot, “said Dumont. “I looked at myself in my trailer in basketball shorts, bandage wrapped around my chest and I thought, ‘damn I look good!’”

“A decade later, I found a safe community, figured out I was nonbinary. Now I’m out, have a life I could have only dreamed of as a kid, and I still get to play

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