"I had written the script and our casting directors were scouring all of America, they were in malls in Ohio and Florida just trying to find the right person for Jules," Levison said. The show's creator, Sam Levison (son of Hollywood director Barry Levinson) previously spoke to the Hollywood Reporter about how Schafer was the perfect person to play the role. Getty Images/Jon KopaloffĮuphoria is Schafer's first acting role, and is already garnering attention not just because transgender characters remain rare on TV, but because actually seeing the roles played by transgender actors is even rarer.
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Hunter Schafer attends the 2019 MTV Movie and TV Awards at Barker Hangar on Jin Santa Monica, California. Her high-profile activism saw her listed in 2017 on Teen Vogue's "21 under 21" list, and she interviewed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for the magazine. As a transgender woman, she's also prominently advocated for LGBT causes, including protesting the notorious "bathroom bill" in North Carolina that required people to use restrooms that corresponded to the gender on their birth certificate. If the name Hunter Schafer is familiar, it might be because the 20-year-old has already made waves as a fashion model and LGBT rights activist.īorn in 1999 in Raleigh, North Carolina, Schafer has modeled for numerous famous fashion houses including Dior, Tommy Hilfiger and Vera Wang. It might not really be up to me anymore.New HBO teen drama Euphoria has already received a great deal of attention since it premiered on Sunday night for the show's uncompromising and explicit depiction of sex, drugs and nudity among high school students.įormer Disney Channel star Zendaya grabbed most headlines for her lead role as recovering drug addict Rue, but it is her friend Jules, played by Hunter Schafer, who was the breakout star of the episode and who was also involved in the pilot's two most shocking scenes. “But I don’t think that makes me an activist.” As for whether she’s a role model to young teens, Schafer says, “I don’t feel prepared or mature enough, but I think it’ll be interesting to see what happens over the next few months of the show airing. “I was in a place of privilege in my transition and felt like I could handle making myself visible in order to help my state understand why what they were doing was detrimental to my community,” Schafer says. Growing up in North Carolina, Schafer was a named plaintiff in the ACLU’s lawsuit with her home state over the “bathroom bill,” which sought to prohibit expansion of protections to LGBTQ people and to govern who could use what public washroom.
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She’s already experienced a few breakneck years of career evolution, and she was practically just a high schooler (she brought her younger sister to a “Euphoria” screening recently to verify that the series rang true). Schafer comes by her wisdom about rapid change, and her knowledge of high school, honestly. But it’s also really exciting to me, continuing to morph and to evolve.” The idea of having to put that aside and create this new person is scary.
As a trans person I worked really, really, really hard to figure out who I was and solidify that and take hold of it. We’re so much more complex than just one identity.” “Euphoria” hasn’t just changed the way Schafer sees her career unfolding: “It’s altered the way I think, period. “There need to be more roles where trans people aren’t just dealing with being trans they’re being trans while dealing with other issues. Playing a role in which gender was not the struggle was exciting. Jules represents a too-rare opportunity - the character grapples with desire but not, in the show’s early going, with gender identity, in which she is secure. The allure of HBO and Zendaya aside, it’s easy to see why Schafer disrupted her plans. “Eventually, I did my final audition out in L.A., and I was filming a pilot a month later.”
Describing how she ended up auditioning for an HBO drama - after experiencing the first blush of fame as a model for Christian Dior, Helmut Lang and Marc Jacobs, among others - Schafer says, “I was just like, ‘F–k it why not? Let’s try!’ It snowballed from there.” Her reps suggested she attend the first audition, which Schafer had already seen posted on Instagram she’d been planning to attend fashion design school. In conversation, Schafer is as light and airy as her idealist character.
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