{"id":138336,"date":"2024-12-18T08:17:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T01:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=138336"},"modified":"2024-12-18T08:17:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T01:17:51","slug":"win-or-lose-transgender-actress-speaks-out-after-disney-cuts-back-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=138336","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Win Or Lose&#8217; Transgender Actress Speaks Out After Disney Cuts Back Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>In 2020, Chanel Stewart was scrolling through X when she happened upon a post about how <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/pixar\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pixar\" data-tag=\"pixar\">Pixar<\/a> was looking for an authentic, 14-year-old transgender girl to voice a transgender teenager in a new animated series. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStewart, who at 14 had already logged a few commercials, knew instantly that it was her role of a lifetime. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI was exactly what they wanted to a T, and that\u2019s why it felt so right. It felt just so right,\u201d says Stewart, who is a transgender girl from Los Angeles. \u201cI immediately asked my mom if I could do it, because I just felt like if I don\u2019t do this, it wouldn\u2019t make sense. You know what I mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStewart eventually scored the voiceover job in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/win-or-lose\/\" id=\"auto-tag_win-or-lose\" data-tag=\"win-or-lose\">Win or Lose<\/a><\/em>, which revolves around a co-ed softball team at a middle school named the Pickles in the week leading up to their big championship game. Stewart couldn\u2019t wait to share the news with her friends. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cOh my God, it was crazy,\u201d the now 18-year-old recalls. \u201cI wore it as a badge. I wore it with pride. I wore it with honor because it meant so much to me. The thought of authentically portraying a transgender teenage girl made me really happy. I wanted to make this for transgender kids like me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSo when <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/disney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_disney\" data-tag=\"disney\">Disney<\/a> called Monday night to tell her mom, Keisha, that <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/disney-pulls-transgender-storyline-win-or-lose-pixar-series-1236208821\/\"><em>Win or Lose<\/em> would no longer include a transgender storyline<\/a>, both she and Chanel were heartsick. (Disney released a statement that said \u201cwhen it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIt was upsetting because my daughter is transgender and this is her life. I felt like it was very important that we not hide that fact,\u201d Stewart\u2019s mom Keisha tells Deadline. \u201cThere may be some parents out there who are not ready to have that conversation, but this is the world that we live in and everyone should be represented. Everyone deserves to be recognized. And it felt like it was just another setback for the LGBTQ community, because it\u2019s very hard on transgender teenagers \u2026 transgender people, period. Especially when you\u2019re young and you\u2019re trying to figure out how to navigate this world that you live in and be able to grow into your own person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI was very disheartened,\u201d adds Stewart. \u201cFrom the moment I got the script, I was excited to share my journey to help empower other trans youth. I knew this would be a very important conversation. Trans stories matter, and they deserve to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBy cutting the transgender storyline, Disney eliminated \u201ca few lines of dialogue\u201d from an episode that references a character\u2019s gender identity. Stewart was not at liberty to share details with Deadline about her character, but was told by Disney that she\u2019s \u201cstill a part of the show heavily.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s just that my character would now be a cis girl, a straight cis girl,\u201d says Chanel Stewart, who is repped by KEY Talent Management and Innovative Artists. \u201cSo yeah, that\u2019s all they really told me and that I was still a part of the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBut there\u2019s one thing that Disney can\u2019t take away from Stewart. \u201cI\u2019m definitely one of the first [transgender girls] to do this!\u201d says Stewart of her voiceover gig. \u201cIt\u2019s a true honor to be a part of queer history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<em>Win or Lose<\/em>, which features Will Forte as the voice of softball Coach Dan, will begin to roll out on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/disney-2\/\">Disney+<\/a>\u00a0beginning February 19, 2025.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/win-or-lose-transgender-actress-speaks-after-disney-cuts-storyline-1236209109\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: In 2020, Chanel Stewart was scrolling through X when she happened upon a post about how Pixar was looking for an authentic, 14-year-old transgender girl to voice a transgender &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=138336\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}