Kuwait has banned A24's latest horror film, TalktoMe, based solely on the gender identity of one of the film’s stars.
, who identifies as nonbinary and trans masculine, and announced their gender confirming surgery in 2022. Terakes’s gender identity not a plot point inin fact, it isn’t mentioned at all. And although the film has been released without any alteration across other Gulf territories, Terakes’s mere presence in the feature is apparently enough to warrant its blockage in Kuwait.Talk to Me
,” said Causeway Films, the movie’s producer, and Bankside Films, its sales agent, in a joint statement to. “Zoe has made their own statement, which we fully support, and we are immensely proud of their involvement in the film.” Over the weekend, 23-year-old Terakes, who became the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first transgender actor when they were cast in the the TV serieson social media. “I am a trans actor who happened to get the role. I’m not a theme. I’m a person. Kuwait has banned this film due to my identity alone,” they wrote. “It is targeted and dehumanizing and means to harm us.”
They continued: “As much as it is very sad to be on the receiving end of this, what is even more heartbreaking is what this precedent means for the queer and trans people of Kuwait. Eliminating trans actors on screens will not eliminate trans people but it will eliminate a lot of hope. And hope is such a large part of how we live as marginalized people. It’s how we learn to move through the hatred and the mistreatment and the violence.
Terakes concluded, “Therefore, our survival is so dependent on our ability to look to each other, to share with each other, to lean on each other, to love each other, to see each other. My heart breaks for the trans people and queer people of Kuwait who have so few places to look.”
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