In the 1961 film version of “West Side Story,” the “tomboy” character Anybodys is a young teen, a stereotype you’d find on any sitcom of the era, dressed in dungarees and a T-shirt with a cute pixi…
,” the “tomboy” character Anybodys is a young teen, a stereotype you’d find on any sitcom of the era, dressed in dungarees and a T-shirt with a cute pixie haircut. But in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” transgender nonbinary actor shines as an older Anybodys as the script by Tony Kushner illuminates the racism, harm of gentrification and the frustration felt by people on the fringes of a postwar society that doesn’t value them because they don’t fit in to the American dream narrative.
Then menas put it out of mind, until zie got a call back, and auditioned for Spielberg, Kushner, producer Christie Krieger and other movie heavyweights. Menas’ experience was a bit unusual. “There was nothing ever expected or demanded. A lot of times trans people come in and we’re the only trans in the room and we have no advocate. There’s been no consultant. We end up doing the job and the emotional labor of a consulting team and reliving our traumas for the process. But that was not the case here, they frontloaded all of the effort, all of the work.
“We see how Anybodys is treated by the gangs and how Anybodys is ostracized from society, which is a very real aspect, unfortunately, that’s still going on. We see that, but we also see Anybodys standing up for himself, and being true to himself in a time where everyone was telling him that trans people aren’t real, you don’t exist, essentially.
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