Michaela Jaé Rodriguez: ‘Trans actors playing cis roles isn’t a question anymore’

In 2018, as the first season of Ryan Murphy’s groundbreaking series Pose hit screens, its leading star Michaela Jaé Rodriguez had a request: Hollywood should let trans actors play cis roles.

“We’ve been asking for it for a very long time. It’s something that we have always been able to do,” she told MTV. It was a bold statement for an actress launching her first major TV role; one aimed at an industry that had nominated Eddie Redmayne for an Oscar for playing a trans woman in The Danish Girl just two years prior.

Rodriquez stood her ground, made history as the first trans star to win a Golden Globe for her role as trans house mother Blanca Evangelista in Murphy’s queer drama about New York’s ‘80s ballroom culture, and

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