Netflix producers are looking for someone to play Buck, a teenage, Asian American trans boy.
Netflix has clearly heard the message: Use trans actors for transgender roles.
Here is the call:
NEW NETFLIX SERIES SEEKING ASIAN TRANSGENDER 14-15 YEAR OLD ACTOR (TRANSITIONING FROM FEMALE TO MALE)
**OK TO SUBMIT IF YOU LOOK THIS AGE BUT ARE OLDER.
The character will be a series regular on an upcoming Netflix series from filmmakers Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling (The East, Sound of my Voice). Produced by Plan B (12 Years a Slave, The Departed) and Anonymous Content. It will shoot in January 2016 for a few months likely in LA.
**NO ACTING EXPERIENCE NECESSARY
**CAN BE FROM / CURRENTLY LIVING ANYWHERE
If you fit this description, please send your name, current picture, age, where you currently live, and contact info to LUNARCASTING@gmail.com
I literally CRIED when I saw this!!!! Asian transgender people will finally be represented!!!! PLEASE try out if you’re an Asian trans boy, you’ll make me so proud :“”‘0
