Kim Cattrall’s ‘Glamorous’ Co-Star Miss Benny Says Sharing Premiere Day With ‘And Just Like That’ Is a ‘Spectacle’: ‘That Is the Gay Stuff That I Love’
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor As if Pride Month couldn’t get any gayer, “And Just Like That” Season 2 and Kim Cattrall’s new Netflix series, “Glamorous,” are premiering on the same day, June 22. “Isn’t that incredible?” says Cattrall’s co-star, actor and musician Miss Benny. “That is the gay stuff that I love.
I’m excited for our show. I’m excited for that show. I’m excited for the spectacle of it all.” In “Glamorous,” Miss Benny plays Marco, a gender-nonconforming wannabe influencer who lands a job working for a beauty mogul (Cattrall).
Miss Benny says Cattrall signed on to “Glamorous” after watching a clip of them playing a “sexual, raunchy and queer” character on “American Horror Stories.” “That blows my mind because I did that whole part saying, ‘What if I do it with a little bit of Samantha?’” they say. “I mimic her portrayal of Samantha a lot in my campier work.” “Glamorous” features a multitude of queer characters. “Having a melting pot of the LGBTQ community is so rare on TV, because usually we have one character to represent everybody, right?” says Miss Benny, who identifies as nonbinary. “I don’t know about you, but I live in such a homo-normative world.
Anytime I see something where it’s just one gay character with a bunch of straight people, I’m like, ‘I’ve never seen that in real life ever.’ If I throw a rock around me, I’ll hit 10 gay people.” However, Miss Benny admits they weren’t always embraced. “I was told for years that it wasn’t time for someone like me.
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