The Deadpool & Wolverine star spoke about the challenges they have faced since 2021
BY EMILY O’MULLANE, IMAGE VIA INSTAGRAM (@EMMALOUISECORRIN)
Emma Corrin, the 28-year-old actor who rose to fame with their role as Princess Diana in The Crown, has said that coming out as non-binary was a “headfuck” in a recent GQ interview.
After coming out on Instagram in 2021, Corrin touched on their gender identity in a Vogue interview by saying that “gender just isn’t something that feels fixed” for them. However, while they received love from the queer community, they also felt at the time “intense pressure” to justify their LGBTQIA identity.
Now, Corrin, who is preparing for the release of their new film Deadpool & Wolverine, has sat down with GQ to discuss how they feel about their gender identity journey three years after coming out.
“You go into everything very fresh-faced and with a lot of genuineness,” they explained. “And then you get knocked down a ton and then you come out and you’re verbal about your identity, and then people fucking stamp that out. Make fucking stupid clickbait headlines that make you feel like shit and use your identity against you as a weapon.”
Throughout their career Emma has continued to speak up about this hatred and in 2023 they said in a Vanity Fair interview that the amount of negativity they received “took [them] aback.”
Corrin also recalled the bullying they received at the all-girls school they attended. “I went to the dance and someone thought I was a boy and asked me to dance, and it became a big joke in my class.”
However, the Deadpool & Wolverine star has indicated that they have been receiving more support now and that their younger self “is actually being looked after”.
Deadpool & Wolverine will be in UK cinemas on the 25 July and will see Corrin star as villain Cassandra. While they are excited about their new role, they also recognise that starring in a Marvel film includes “a lot of pressure on it”.
Looking past this summer, Corrin is working on other exciting new projects including having co-written a script for a film called Peaches, which they are currently in the process of financing.
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