Carrie Coon, which portrays a third of a toxic friend’s trio known as the “Blond Blob” of season 3 of The white lotussaid his character Laurie was initially written to have a non -binary or trans child, but that the scene was finally cut by creator Mike White after the re -election of Donald Trump.
Talk to Harper bazaarThe candidate for Emmy Emmy discussed the circumstances of Laurie’s difficult life, in particular the imminent divorce of the character, an unsatisfactory career and a tense relationship with his daughter. The HBO actress mentioned the original script, adding that the change was made to reduce the episode, with the executive / writer White taking into account the hatred that was intimate against trans and non -binary people.
“There was a little more context in her family life,” she started. “You initially discovered that her daughter was actually non-binary, perhaps trans and that you see them. world.”
The golden age Star continued: “But the season was written before the elections. And given the way the Trump administration armed the cultural war against transgender people even more since then, when the time has come to reduce the episode, Mike estimated that the scene was so small and the subject so big that it was not the right way to get involved in this conversation.”
Indeed, among the many aspects of Trump’s administration, there is the incessant persecution of trans and non -binary people, indicative by the abolition of information on intersex and trans people of government agency sites, the opinions of the White House entitled “The Defense of Women of the Experience of the Ideology of Gender and the Restoration of the Biological Truth” and the experience of the actress Hunter Schafer receives a new passport NOW.
