![]() ![]() With “House of Dragons” not expected until at least 2021, this likely won’t be the only year without a “Game of Thrones” series on the docket - but it might be the most important year for HBO. Read on for more HBO series to look forward to in 2020, including an array of new and returning shows, limited series, docuseries, films, and more. ![]() Meanwhile, plenty of fan favorite shows are returning, none more important than the rebooted “ Westworld” Season 3, but additional entries like “Euphoria” Season 2, “Barry” Season 3, and “Succession” Season 3 cannot be undervalued. and starring “The Americans” veteran Matthew Rhys, and don’t forget more new originals from indie film favorites Luca Guadagnino, Derek Cianfrance, Paolo Sorrentino. So what will entice subscribers to keep HBO (or add HBO Max) to their ever-growing streaming library this year? 2020 offerings include “ The Outsider,” a Stephen King adaptation from “The Night Of” creator Richard Price “Avenue 5,” Armando Iannucci’s “Veep” follow-up “The Undoing,” starring Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman “Bad Education,” HBO’s pricey TIFF film festival acquisition starring Hugh Jackman “Perry Mason,” from producer Robert Downey Jr. I think that’s just you wanted to see yourself represented on TV.Drugs, Fraud, Whistleblowers, and the Safdies: Inside the 22-Year Journey of HBO’s Bombshell Miniseries ‘Telemarketers’ “Or a trans girl being in a queer relationship - I don’t really think I have ever seen that imagery on TV either. “It felt important for me and felt exciting, as far as that imagery on the TV screen, whether it’s a young trans girl who’s not tucked and has her bulge out and seeing that on TV and what that could do,” she says. That said, she does point out certain acting choices she made to bring a level of authenticity to Jules. “Because when I think of an activist I think of a community organizer who’s doing that every day of their lives and working with the community, and for this job I have been inserted in a very cisgender, very white, very straight world that is Hollywood, and I don’t know how much that does for the community. “I think the term activism has been sort of watered down,” she says. In 2016, Schafer was a plaintiff in the ACLU lawsuit against her home state of North Carolina’s House Bill 2 regarding bathrooms - but she doesn’t see her role in “Euphoria” as a kind of activism. “And there was also the thing of young people who are watching the show can look up to Jules and want to be like her and that’s a really scary thing, but just getting messages from other trans people or people relating to her shooting her estrogen before she goes out for a night with a man - people found that relatable, which is good.” “There is always the thing of ‘am I going to properly represent my community in this role?’” she says. See Also: Will Poulter Is Scared of the Sun After ‘Midsommar’ “Which I am still working on.”īeing a trans woman portraying a trans woman on a major platform such as HBO comes with responsibilities, which Schafer takes to heart. ![]() “That year of modeling, I grew up a lot - I was alone in New York and just grinding and making it work, and I feel it kind of prepared me for the responsibilities of being an actor alone in L.A. Jules is a young transgender woman who has recently moved to town with a complex past and a desire to fit in she and Zendaya’s Rue immediately become friends, and navigate their respective chaos together. While Zendaya is the big name on the project - and billed as the frontrunner - audiences have quickly identified Schafer as the reason to keep coming back each week (the season’s fifth episode premieres on Sunday). She was gearing up to study fashion design at Central Saint Martins in London when her agents at Elite called to say HBO was interested in her for the role of Jules in “Euphoria,” which stars Zendaya alongside a who’s-who of rising Hollywood stars, from Sydney Sweeney and Maude Apatow to Alexa Demie and Algee Smith. “My plan was to model and pay the rent and then intern with designers and work on the other side of the industry however I could,” she recalls, “but then it just got to be too much, especially with casting, fashion week and also working for a fashion designer.” See Also: ‘Stranger Things’ Star Maya Hawke Is Done Resisting the Family Business ![]() She also interned with Vaquera before modeling took over full-time. She spent the next year modeling full-time, doing a full circuit in Europe and walking for brands like Marc Jacobs and Miu Miu. ![]()
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