The filmmaker, Seamón said, is like an uncle or a grandfather, and he does “a lot of staring, and he tells you later on he was studying, but it comes across as very scary.” Seamón didn’t know Guadagnino was attached to the project until she was called to do a chemistry read with her co-star, Jack Dylan Grazer. I did some online research about what it was like for a young person to question their gender identity, but I didn’t want to solely look online, and I didn’t want to have a specific textbook answer, so therefore I talked to real people to get their experiences,” she said, and asked questions like, “Who was accepting? Who wasn’t accepting? How did you come to terms with it yourself, and your family, and your friends?” Jordan Kristine Seamón, Jack Dylan Grazer in “We Are Who We Are” Yannis Drakoulidis/HBOĪlso abetting in bringing emotional authenticity to the character was director Luca Guadagnino, who helmed all eight episodes of the series. That fluid gender identity, she said, is not out of place among Seamón’s generation, and it was easy for the actress to turn to her peers to achieve an authentic point of view. The character is also actively being shaped in real time, as Caitlin’s gender expression starts to veer toward masculine as she retreats into an alter-ego she calls “Harper.” She starts drawing on facial hair, taping her chest, and wearing baggier clothes as she marches into coming to terms with possibly being trans. “I don’t know if they changed it because of me.

“I told them I was Black, all the way, no mixture at all,” she said. Originally, she said, Caitlin was meant to be an Asian-American character, but the producers altered the character to fit Seamón’s race. The producers were immediately interested and began to shape the role around her. The monologue for the audition is one Caitlin performs in the emotional fifth episode from the 1974 David Mamet play “Sexual Perversity in Chicago.” ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Is Ending with Upcoming Season 12 - for RealĪs part of that audition process, Seamón, who now lives in Atlanta but grew up in Philadelphia performing in school plays and community theater, submitted a self tape at the behest of her mother.

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