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When it was announced the Florida Film Festival would be doing a unique 25th anniversary screening of But I’m a Cheerleaderfeaturing a Q&A with Natasha Lyonne, I told my wife to buy tickets now. A few weeks later, Clea DuVall was added to the event after some scheduling things got sorted. Posters popped up around town, Natasha Lyonne as a teenager in the bright pink dress from the film gracing the windows of shops along the street where we walk most mornings. I snapped pictures of almost every one I saw. It’d be difficult to describe to my past self exactly what this felt like. I wouldn’t have given the posters much time or idea when I lived other places. I may own even skipped out on the pricey event, despite the film being an all-time favorite and despite being a self-appointed scholar of queerleaders in movie and television.
But the truth that this would be happening here, in Orlando, in a state that used to have a conversion therapy ban that was ultimately struck down (some Florida cities and counties have their retain local bands, but Orange and Seminole County which encompass Orlando are not one of them), made me look forward to the event as if i
Clea DuVall: Promoting ‘But I’m a Cheerleader’ Was ‘Dangerous’ While in the Closet
Clea DuVall is looking support on the legacy of the 1999 cult classic film “But I’m a Cheerleader.”
The gay conversion camp rom-com co-starring Natasha Lyonne proved to be a pivotal turn in DuVall’s career, but also a “scary time” for the actress, who was still publicly closeted.
“So many opportunities came to me because of [‘But I’m a Cheerleader’] that I didn’t take because I was afraid,” DuVall told The Independent while discussing the new ’90s-set Freevee via Amazon Prime Video series “High School,” which she co-wrote and co-directed based on artists Tegan and Sara’s novel.
“I was very closeted and very frightened of people finding out I was gay,” DuVall said. “It was the Nineties, there was no conversation about sexuality – you were just not going to talk about it.”
While DuVall was out to her friends and family, she was not ready to publicly talk about her personal life and sexuality as a star. “It was dangerous for me,” DuVal
Celebrating Clea DuVall: Impactful Roles in Horror and Coming Out in a Horrible World
A young person, raised by a scientist and seemingly simple minded by design, discovers their inner hedonist. In their quest for pleasure, they abandon their home and begin on misadventures involving sex, sugar, an abusive partnership, and various enlightenments, all before returning home to confront their past so that they may travel towards their future. This is the streamlined arc for both Poor Things protagonist Bella Baxter and myself. When I saw Poor Things in theaters in January 2024, the only things I knew about the film were that Yorgos Lanthimos directed it and that the cast included Emma Stone, Ramy Youssef, and Willem Dafoe.
You can imagine my surprise when I not only felt the impact of Bella’s arc, but also felt seen and even empowered in a way that I rarely do as a gay disabled man.
Discovering Bella Baxter in Poor Things
Bella, an adult woman who exhibits childlike behavior, is under the care of scientist Godwin Baxter, who has taken on the role of her father figure. Conversations with his student Max reveals that Bella’s body is the resurrected corpse of a woman that G
The Studio That Brought You Happiest Season Is Putting Clea DuVall In The Director’s Chair Again
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Clea DuVall is back at it, this time she’s set to direct a “female-driven adventure comedy” from Tristar Pictures, the studio that brought us Happiest Season.
Whether you loved or hated the holiday romp Happiest Season, it is undoubtedly a queer classic, marking one of the few gay mainstream holiday movies to emerge from the ubiquitous genre. Clea DuVall gave us queer Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, and Aubrey Plaza all wrapped up in a shiny homosexual bow, and “should Abby and Harper have stayed together” is one of my favorite no-stakes “arguments” to have amongst any given gaggle of gays.
Clea DuVall’s newest venture is currently called Abbi and the Eighth Wonder, and it’s an original screenplay by Matt Roller, whose writing credits include but are not limited to Community and Speechless, two shows I personally establish hilarious. Not a lot of information is free about the story yet, but what I’ve gleaned from the internet is that it will be an “Indiana-Jones-sty
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