In the scene in question, Jules and Rue argued about whether it's safe for Jules to meet up with Shyguy118, the guy she had fallen for online (though, little did she know, that guy was actually violent jock Nate, the son of "DominantDaddy" Cal). When Rue muses, "I'd never known anyone like Jules before," it has greater meaning than you think, and a conversation between Jules and Rue in the that same episode cleared up the question of Jules's gender identity for once and for all. Just like her character, Schafer is also a transgender woman, though up until episode three of the first series, it wasn't clear to viewers whether Jules was a cis or trans woman (save for her penchant for using a gay dating app to meet men, as well as a blink-and-you-miss-it scene in the pilot episode where Jules was seen injecting hormones into her thigh). In the raunchy series, Schafer plays Jules, who is also transgender, and a new girl in town with whom Rue (who's played by Zendaya) quickly develops a bond. It might not really be up to me anymore.Euphoria may have given transgender actress and model Hunter Schafer her first major role, but we guarantee this won't be the last you see of her. “But I don’t think that makes me an activist.” As for whether she’s a role model to young teens, Schafer says, “I don’t feel prepared or mature enough, but I think it’ll be interesting to see what happens over the next few months of the show airing. “I was in a place of privilege in my transition and felt like I could handle making myself visible in order to help my state understand why what they were doing was detrimental to my community,” Schafer says. Growing up in North Carolina, Schafer was a named plaintiff in the ACLU’s lawsuit with her home state over the “bathroom bill,” which sought to prohibit expansion of protections to LGBTQ people and to govern who could use what public washroom. She’s already experienced a few breakneck years of career evolution, and she was practically just a high schooler (she brought her younger sister to a “Euphoria” screening recently to verify that the series rang true). Schafer comes by her wisdom about rapid change, and her knowledge of high school, honestly. But it’s also really exciting to me, continuing to morph and to evolve.” The idea of having to put that aside and create this new person is scary. As a trans person I worked really, really, really hard to figure out who I was and solidify that and take hold of it. We’re so much more complex than just one identity.” “Euphoria” hasn’t just changed the way Schafer sees her career unfolding: “It’s altered the way I think, period. “There need to be more roles where trans people aren’t just dealing with being trans they’re being trans while dealing with other issues. Playing a role in which gender was not the struggle was exciting. Jules represents a too-rare opportunity - the character grapples with desire but not, in the show’s early going, with gender identity, in which she is secure. The allure of HBO and Zendaya aside, it’s easy to see why Schafer disrupted her plans. “Eventually, I did my final audition out in L.A., and I was filming a pilot a month later.” Describing how she ended up auditioning for an HBO drama - after experiencing the first blush of fame as a model for Christian Dior, Helmut Lang and Marc Jacobs, among others - Schafer says, “I was just like, ‘F–k it why not? Let’s try!’ It snowballed from there.” Her reps suggested she attend the first audition, which Schafer had already seen posted on Instagram she’d been planning to attend fashion design school. In conversation, Schafer is as light and airy as her idealist character.
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