“I knew that no character had ever said that on television before and no non-binary character had ever been played by a non-binary actor before,” Dillon told BuzzFeed News.
star Asia Kate Dillon read the script for the pivotal scene in Season 2 Episode 2 of the Showtime series in which their character, Taylor Mason, came out as non-binary, the actor had an emotional reaction and moment of self-realization.
“Where Taylor says to Axe, ‘You know, I’m Taylor, my pronouns are they, theirs, and them, I immediately started crying when I read that,” Dillon said on BuzzFeed News’ Twitter morning show. “Because I knew that no character had ever said that on television before and no non-binary character had ever been played by a non-binary actor before.”
Dillon plays Taylor, a non-binary character on the hit Showtime series that tells the story of a US attorney in New York going head-to-head with a wealthy and powerful hedge fund manager, loosely based on a true story. The show is currently in its fourth season and has been renewed for a fifth. The actor said receiving the character breakdown for Taylor was “really a life-changing moment” because it helped them on their own journey to identifying as non-binary.“Although I myself identified as gender-fluid, gender-queer, and even non-binary, I still felt a little bit like a imposter,” Dillon said.
“I had no example of a person who hadn’t changed their body but identified as non-binary, so when I got the character breakdown and it said 'Female, gender non-binary' I thought, ‘Well how can you be both? I don’t really understand,’” Dillon said.
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