Balloting for the 2019 Emmy nominations began Monday, June 10, and a day later FX‘s drama series contender “Pose” began its second season. The premiere episode “Acting Up” featured emotionally and politically charged performances from series stars Mj Rodriguez, Billy Porter and Indya Moore, all of whom are contending for nominations for their work on season one.
If you thought season one of the series brought the waterworks — I mean, remember episode six “Love Is the Message,” one of two eps the series submitted for consideration in the Best Drama Writing category — then you may not be ready for the season two opener/tearjerker. The premiere — directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton, an Emmy contender for helming “Mother of the Year” from season one — opens with Blanca (Rodriguez) and Pray Tell (Porter) visiting the infamous Hart Island in Bronx, NY, a potter’s field where thousands of AIDS victims were buried apart from...
If you thought season one of the series brought the waterworks — I mean, remember episode six “Love Is the Message,” one of two eps the series submitted for consideration in the Best Drama Writing category — then you may not be ready for the season two opener/tearjerker. The premiere — directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton, an Emmy contender for helming “Mother of the Year” from season one — opens with Blanca (Rodriguez) and Pray Tell (Porter) visiting the infamous Hart Island in Bronx, NY, a potter’s field where thousands of AIDS victims were buried apart from...
- 6/12/2019
- by John Benutty
- Gold Derby
Ines Rau, an openly transgender model French model, has been named Playboy’s first trans playmate. At the age of 16, Rau transitioned and underwent sex reassignment surgery, after being inspired by the life story of English transgender model Caroline “Tula” Cossey. Cossey played as an extra in the James Bond movie, For Your Eyes Only, […]
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The post ‘Playboy’ Names First Transgender Playmate Ines Rau appeared first on uInterview.
- 10/22/2017
- by Kim Washington
- Uinterview
Ines Rau is making Playboy history.
The French model is getting a centerfold in the magazine's November/December issue, making her the first transgender Playmate in the publication's 64-year history.
More: Young Hugh Hefner Graces 'Playboy' Cover in Honor of the Founder's Death
“I lived a long time without saying I was transgender,” Rau tells Playboy in an interview for the spread. “I dated a lot and almost forgot. I was scared of never finding a boyfriend and being seen as weird. Then I was like, 'You know, you should just be who you are. It’s a salvation to speak the truth about yourself, whether it’s your gender, sexuality, whatever. The people who reject you aren’t worth it. It’s not about being loved by others; it’s about loving yourself.'"
“When I was doing this shoot, I was thinking of all those hard days in my childhood,” she adds. “And now...
The French model is getting a centerfold in the magazine's November/December issue, making her the first transgender Playmate in the publication's 64-year history.
More: Young Hugh Hefner Graces 'Playboy' Cover in Honor of the Founder's Death
“I lived a long time without saying I was transgender,” Rau tells Playboy in an interview for the spread. “I dated a lot and almost forgot. I was scared of never finding a boyfriend and being seen as weird. Then I was like, 'You know, you should just be who you are. It’s a salvation to speak the truth about yourself, whether it’s your gender, sexuality, whatever. The people who reject you aren’t worth it. It’s not about being loved by others; it’s about loving yourself.'"
“When I was doing this shoot, I was thinking of all those hard days in my childhood,” she adds. “And now...
- 10/19/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Model Ines Rau will make history next month as the first transgender woman to be featured on the cover of Playboy, in what will be the first issue to hit newsstands since the death of the magazine’s founder, Hugh Hefner. The 26-year-old Rau has modeled for Playboy before, appearing in the magazine three years ago for a special issue that focused on non-binary genders. The transgender actress Caroline Cossey also posed for Playboy in 1981 shortly before appearing in the film “For Your Eyes Only.” A year later, Cossey came out as transgender, and later posed for Playboy again in.
- 10/19/2017
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
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