12 h 7 oct 2021 año - INTERVIEW MAGAZINE Olivia Thirlby Tells iO Tillet Wright About Making TV for a Damaged World

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Olivia Thirlby Tells iO Tillet Wright
About Making TV for a Damaged World

By iO Tillett Wright

Imagine a world in which a mysterious virus wipes out half of mankind. Too easy? What if the only thing that its victims had in common was a Y chromosome? According to Olivia Thirlby, the star of FX on Hulu’s new series Y: The Last Man, the aftermath of such an event would be “a much more frankly integrated experience of sexuality.” The idea of rebalancing the scales of power in contexts of gender and sexuality is a powerful one to Thirlby, who came out as bisexual in 2011 and has since pursued projects that resonate with experiences in her own life. For the 35-year-old actor, Y was an appealing project for its depiction not only of a post-pandemic society, but also of a post-gender one. However, while the series indulges in the fantasy of eliminating the almost exclusively male executive branch, Thirlby cautions that Y is hardly the story of a “dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the earth” scenario. Adapted from the early 2000s comic books of the same name, the series has been re-imagined to welcome more gender literate and gender fluid audiences. One major departure from the source material involves Hero Brown (Thirlby’s character)— an EMT-turned-dystopian-Amazonian-warrior and the daughter of the president—and her possible love interest, a trans man named Sam (Elliot Fletcher). As Thirlby’s fellow artist and activist iO Tillet Wright notes, Thirlby’s role in this on-screen romance makes the actor something of a queer, well, warrior. Here, the friends discuss the unifying power of TV in trying times, the long arc of trans representation in art, and how to bring LGBTQ+ issues to the wider world—that is, before it ends.

iO TILLET WRIGHT: Hi, friend.

OLIVIA THIRLBY: Hey, friend.

TILLETT WRIGHT: I’m so into this show, Liv. I’m blown away by the caliber of the cast.

THIRLBY: It’s been amazing being part of this ensemble because everyone’s just so rad. Everyone is so talented. It’s very humbling to be in that company, and also very nerve-wracking. But every person in the cast is a lovely person. They’re all sweet and kind and caring, and have no ego, and are deeply invested in art. Also, I feel like I have to talk about the other amazing people who made this show happen. Our costume designer, our directors, our DPs. We had almost all-female department heads. Almost all-female producers. It’s such an exciting thing.

TILLETT WRIGHT: And the writing is good, too.

THIRLBY: That’s Eliza [Clark, the show’s creator]. All roads lead back to Eli. She sets the tone for everything. She’s so kind, collaborative, supportive, and brilliant. She’s like, pathologically inclusive, and that is so rare.

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