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Olivia Colman Says She Has 'Always Sort of Felt Nonbinary' While Promoting Jimpa

The Oscar winner ties her reflections to working with a queer cast on Sophie Hyde’s family drama, now playing in New York and Los Angeles.

Overview

  • In an interview with Them, Colman said she has always felt "sort of nonbinary" and has long described herself to husband Ed Sinclair as "a gay man."
  • She said she has never felt "massively feminine" and feels at home in LGBTQ+ spaces rather than with people who are "staunchly heterosexual."
  • Colman noted that collaborating on Jimpa increased her time with trans and nonbinary people and helped her get better with pronouns.
  • In Jimpa, she plays a mother to a nonbinary teen portrayed by Aud Mason-Hyde, with John Lithgow as the gay grandfather; the film is directed by Sophie Hyde and draws on her real-life experience.
  • The film opened in early February and is currently in limited U.S. release in New York City and Los Angeles.