Actress Hunter Schafer no longer wants to play trans characters | Movies & Series

“I’ve been offered a lot of trans roles and I just don’t want to do it. I don’t want to talk about it,” says Schafer, who recently appeared in theaters in the Hunger Games-prequel The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.

In the conversation, the 25-year-old actress also states that she tries to avoid the word “trans” in interviews. In doing so, she wants to ensure that her career is not solely determined by her gender identity.

“I know that I am one of the best-known trans people in the media right now, and I do feel some kind of responsibility. And maybe also a little guilt, because I don’t talk about it anymore,” says Schafer.

“But at the end of the day, I really believe I can move forward by not making that the center of what I do.” She further thinks that it would be better to make beautiful things for “the movement” than to constantly talk about it.

Schafer will soon be seen in the horror film Cuckoo.