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The Laver Cox has come out with a very important series at a very important time.
Pure slatewhich had premiered on Amazon Prime -Video on February 6th, plays Orange is the new black Alum with George Wallace.
The lichens reached deep into their own pain in childhood to tell this humorous, uplifting story.
But she hopes this will have a healing effect on viewers. Especially now at a time when her story is so painfully relevant.
Laverne Cox and George Wallace Stars in ‘Clean Slate’ on Prime
Pure slate is a new series of prime video. The show plays the lavers Cox as Desiree, the alienated adult daughter of Harry Slate, portrayed by George Wallace.
Desiree returns to his little Alabama -hjemby, where Harry lives and owns a car wash. Financing for her art gallery in New York has fallen through and her visit home becomes an extended stay.
The catch is that she doesn’t just play the catching up of life events. She is a transgender woman, and until the moment their re -connection is, her father has only known her as her “son.”
Talking to People Alongside the premiere, the launchers expressed how using very real real stories about what it means to be trans in our deeply transfobe society also means being able to “explore healing” and humor on the show.
The lichens explained how she took her own “disputed, conflicting relationship with the home” and “the trauma in my childhood.” She then made them “quite fun for the show.”
Traditionally, trauma in real life is an important source of inspiration for comedy. It’s just as true for Pure slate As it is for most of the stand-up comedy. Ultimately, the lavers hope this is “healing for the audience.”
Laverne Cox knows how important stories like ‘pure slate’ are right now
Although revision of some aspects of her childhood was “triggering, almost every day,” at the launches Cox that it is for a good cause. And not just in service for the show itself.
CNN reported his statements elsewhere about what it means to make a series like Pure slate At a time when the worst political figures on the planet use the LGBTQ+ community – and especially the trans community – as a scapegoat and a malicious rally cry.
“With regard to the transptek of it, we experience the most intense setback against trans -visibility that I have seen in my lifetime,” acknowledged the lays.
“You know the Republican Party spent $ 215 million on anti-track ads in this last election,” quoted Cox. “And if you watched, you would think the last choice was about transgender people and immigrants.”
“Executive orders limiting our rights, 26 states banned gender -affirming care of young people banning us from the military, from bathrooms,” she listed ugly. “There is this whole anti-trans-things thing and we are less than 1% of the population.”
Referring to a recent response to the Bigoted Anti-Trans bass stroke noticed the lavers: “A person in my comment department said:“ They are concerned about the wrong 1%. ”(The right 1% are billionaires, some of whom are actively active dismantling of the US government while we’re talking)
‘They are concerned about the wrong 1%’
“In 2025, when federal bans are going to attack transgender people, what I love about this show and what I love by being an artist is that artists can be arbitrators of empathy,” the lichens expressed. She pointed out that empathy “can promote humanity.”
She acknowledged: “Transgender people have been so deeply dehumanized in the last several years.”
The lichens then confirmed, “Art, getting to know transgender people as human beings is a way of re -humanizing again.”