Jessica darrow lgbtq
"Her journey was very similar to mine, and just coming to terms with the fact that, hey, when you feel this way, it's okay to just take a step back and be like, 'I am not just my work, I am not just all these things that people place on me, I can actually just exist on my own and be just as unusual and have the same heart and love in my life,'" Jessica says. "And it was actually crazy to be able to record this during a pandemic. I think that's why those themes were really resonating with me. And I felt so sentimental throughout this whole process."
As for all the amazing fans who also glimpse themselves in Luisa, Jessica says, "I'm really just honored to be the vessel to be able to permit this experience for people, it's a really important one. I grew up wanting to encounter Disney characters that felt closer to me, felt closer to my family. And now it's here and I'm doing it as an adult."
5. "Surface Pressure" was one of the first songs that Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote for the movie. In November 2020, Jessica received the demo recording with Lin singing, and operational with him on the song was a dream enter true.
"What Lin actually ended up bringing out of me was, he really wanted me to l
An interview with the celestial body that voiced Luisa in Disney’s Encanto
INTERVIEW BY KRYSTA MCKENZIE, IMAGE BY PRIME VIDEO
You probably know Jess Darrow as the voice of Luisa in Disney’s Encanto. When the production came out last year, everyone (including us) speculated that Luisa was sapphic, and we were so excited when we start out the actor who voiced her was actually queer. Jess now plays a sports publicist, Mikki Easton, in the upcoming Prime Video drama series Fifteen-Love. The series follows tennis prodigy, Justine Pearce (Ella Lily Hyland) as she navigates her being and career after making a sexual assault allegation against her former coach, Glenn Lapthorn (Aidan Turner).
DIVA: How do you perceive now that Fifteen-Love is about to come out?
Jess: I feel very excited! It’s my first TV show that I’ve ever done. The dream is to be on motion picture, on TV. I show up from the voiceover animation world, which I absolutely love, but this is definitely the goal. So to be able to do that while telling such an important story is absolutely the illusion.
What’s it like organism a queer actor playing a queer character on screen?
Playing Mikki is the first time I’ve actu
So I’ve been watching Disney’s Encanto literally multiple times a day every afternoon in my house because Omicron and because preschoolers and… let’s be honest… because LUISA.
We’ve never had a muscular woman love her in a Disney movie before and I’m here for it. Luisa Madrigal isn’t queer in the movie, but she has already risen to lesbian icon status. She is going to the sexual awakening moment for generations of baby gays and I love that for them. The ballad “Surface Pressure” is a bop that is already charting on the Billboard Hot 100 and making big sisters feel seen.
I was innocently scrolling through my TikTok For You Page when Luisa’s voice actress, Jessica Darrow popped up. Encanto is the 26-year-old Cuban-American actress’s breakout role after studying acting at Rutgers University and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. She united TikTok in March 2020 like the rest of us and the majority of the comments on her recent videos are queer girls simping. She chose one to rejoin to:
@jessdarrow_Reply to @badnands #fyp♬ original sound – Jessica Darrow
So, is that a yes?? Fans seem to think so. Jessica
Asked what her take was on Disney’s handling of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, a situation that saw CEO Bob Chapek waffle, and staffers walk out this past week, Darrow exclaimed that when it comes to the Lgbtqia+ community, “We are the face of Disney at the end of the day.”
“It’s obviously not right what’s going on, as we continue to uplift our voices and construct our cases known, and continue to put out the positive, loving genuine energy that consumes all of us; we are the authentic part of all of this,” added the actress on Disney’s response to “Don’t Say...
Euphoria’s doing Euphoria things, the Winter Olympics are just around the corner and Oscar season is on the horizon! Things are heating up in the pop culture territory as we leader out of January and into February.
It can be a lot to retain up with. But thankfully “The Buzz” is here to round up the hottest queer and trans pop society happens across the interwebs each week.
This week, we’re finally joining the chorus obsessed with Encanto, remembering SOPHIE and catching up with Cara Delevingne’s latest exploits. Here’s what you missed in queer pop culture.
→Disney’s latest film, Encanto, has absolutely blown up over the past month for it’s earwormy bops and heartwarming story; the film’s soundtrack remains at the top of the charts, and we’re all still talking about Bruno.
And while noted bisexual queen Stephanie Beatriz plays the film’s protagonist, Maribel, it’s her strong butch sister Luisa that has rightfully become a target of internet queer thirst.
Get free Xtra newsletters
Xtra is being blocked on Facebook and Instagram for Canadians as part of Meta’s response to Bill C18. Stay related, and tell a friend.
Subscribe Now
https://www.tiktok.c