“There was a level of digestibility that I had to tap into in order to do a blockbuster film,” he says. “I couldn’t get the nuance of the character because it had to appeal to such a vast audience. And so I felt like I wasn’t really doing what I set out to do at a young age, which was to embody and mirror humanity and story tell and create complex personalities.” robe charleston manche longue When I first met Yara, I was taken by her ability to balance academic intelligence and a fondness for James Baldwin quotes with being the friend you text in gibberish at 1 in the morning about the Beyoncé concert you just saw (me: Disnt. Snatwganfxank! Yara: Agrktvfuen rifbrvudhf!). Yara’s seeming contradictions are what make her so singular, especially in a world where the message women and people of color tend to hear is that they can be one thing rather than possess the multitude of identities we all encapsulate. Particularly in Hollywood, which can feel like a hierarchy where girls are encouraged to see each other as competition rather than people worth getting to know, Yara has taught me that sisterhood is thicker than any of these notions. Having a friend like Yara [who plays Zoey on Black-ish] is essential to me as a girl, as an actress, and as a teenager. She has helped me so much, often with-out even knowing it. I keep a journal where I write down important things that I hear, and flipping through it now I realize most of the quotes are Yara’s. She is a wondrous witness to the world, capable of seeing the best of it as well as highlighting the parts we can make better. Yara is proof that teenagers have so much more power than we are capable of digesting and that our voices actually do change things. I am thinking less about our impact on the world at large than I am about the ways we can impact each other and make one another feel less alone.Photo: Sean ThomasY+R ON REPRESENTATIONRB: robe charleston manche longue When Chester says “I’m a lot,” you can also hear the reflex that festers inside so many young queer people to apologize for their own queerness. The moment draws an acute parallel between who Chester is publicly — loud and proud — and who he is behind closed doors with another queer person. robe charleston manche longue Chester may be the latest in a long line of queer characters on television, but his narrative is also so different from what television usually has to offer. Unlike many queer narratives on film and television, Chester’s has nothing to do with coming out. Chester is out — about as out as a high school student can get. His journey throughout the series is about finding self-love and becoming whole and dealing with a world that actively works to fracture queer people, people of color, and those at the intersection. “Chester has a very complicated relationship with love, because of his chronic sense of loneliness,” he says. “Chester has such a sense of self, that he’s not necessarily attracted to people who don’t have the same sense of self.” robe charleston manche longue
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