It’s not just the pain that they cause in life. I don’t even know if I have the words to explain how I’m feeling right now, but I think that we know they’re trying to keep our voices silent, wanting to keep us invisible, wanting to keep us down. And I think that it’s worse than damaging sometimes. But don’t they have an agenda? Just using that word-: if they have an “agenda,” why is there room for only one? Coming at it from my world, I see that, without our voices being heard, they are using fear and intimidation to further their falsehoods-to keep them alive, present and crackling. What do you have to say to the people who continue to insist that having LGBTQ2S+ people or queer-centric storylines is pushing an “agenda” on younger viewers? And I think if some of that can be incorporated into all our lives, I think so much the better. I just want to leap forward sometimes a bit.īut what I love about the show is through these lessons that Sir Cedric teaches his daughter, Nia, who wants to be a knight, a lot of it revolves around kindness, generosity and love. It’s just a matter of who controls what’s being seen, right? There’s a part of me that is, as grateful as I am, a little frustrated that it’s 2021, and this is one of the first shows. It’s such a falsehood, it’s such a lie, because there is a place. You can see the damage that’s done when you don’t know where you fit in or don’t know how you fit in or don’t feel like you fit in. But I’d love for it to be something that they want to watch, something that sparks imagination. With all due respect, I feel a little uncomfortable with that, because I’m just one of many wonderful characters. I don’t know about my portrayal of Sir Cedric. What would you like younger viewers-particularly those who might feel unseen or underrepresented in the media that they consume-to take away from your portrayal of Sir Cedric and from this show in general?
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