Writer and actor Raegan Revord is aware of the ability of illustration.
Revord, who portrays Missy Cooper within the “Massive Bang Concept” prequel spinoffs “Younger Sheldon” and “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage,” confirmed they’re nonbinary in a latest interview with “Leisure Tonight” and mentioned it has been “so cool” to suppose that being their genuine self might assist different children like them.
“Rising up, each time I’d see a celeb or whoever come out as nonbinary or queer or something, I used to be like ‘Oh, my God, that is so cool, I see myself in you,’” Revord mentioned of their first interview addressing their gender id. “It’s so loopy to have that have the place I’m now that particular person and there may be a child someplace who’s like ‘Oh, my God, I see myself you.’ That’s such an insane factor to suppose as a result of I used to be in that child’s footwear sooner or later in my life.”
The 17-year-old additionally addressed the significance of queer illustration in media whereas discussing their new e-book, “Guidelines for Pretend Girlfriends.” The younger grownup rom-com follows Avery Blackwell, a rising faculty freshman who postpones her plans to attend Columbia after a be aware from her late mom sends her on a scavenger hunt in England. En path to her mom’s seaside alma mater, Avery encounters Charlie, a captivating native in want of a pretend girlfriend quick. Avery finally ends up agreeing to the faux-romance in alternate for assistance on the scavenger hunt.
“Once I was getting extra into studying and broadening my horizons and studying tales and watching TV and stuff, there wasn’t a whole lot of queer illustration,” mentioned Revord, noting that rather a lot has modified in 10 years.
Revord has addressed the subject in quite a few interviews whereas selling “Guidelines for Pretend Girlfriends,” which she wrote partly whereas filming the ultimate season of “Younger Sheldon.”
“I at all times needed to jot down one thing the place folks might see themselves as a result of I didn’t have that in books,” Revord informed Writer’s Weekly.
“One among my favourite reveals and graphic novels is ‘Heartstopper.’ I like that sequence a lot, and the best way they present queer love as such an harmless factor is so lovely. I needed to do one thing like that. In my e-book, it’s very a lot a discovered household type of trope, and like in ‘Heartstopper,’ everybody within the pal group is somewhat queer.”
