I’m so proud of their production, I’m proud of all those girls that are on there. In addition to Perry’s “If Loving You Is Wrong,” she’s also caught up on “How to Get Away With Murder,” “Star,” and “Empire.” Of course, she’s also a huge fan of “Pose.” She’s very excited about Tyler Perry’s “The Haves and the Have Nots” on Hulu, which features a positive gay character with a supportive father. Now that her nursing shift is more reasonable, Taylor has had time to catch up on her favorite shows. Unfortunately, the show was canceled after one season. That’s how Taylor booked her first TV gig, Marti Noxon’s “Dietland” on AMC. One of the fastest ways to casting equity for trans talent is casting trans actors and actresses in roles that are not specifically written as trans. We wanna be mainstream, we wanna be on TV dating the hot guy.” “I’m not a diva, not in the least bit, but when I say I don’t wanna do that, I think I’m doing the trans community a favor, because we’re trying to come out of that type of typecasting. I feel like trans women should be getting out of that,” Taylor said. There are plenty of job opportunities Taylor never sees, because her management knows not to send her roles with harmful stereotypes about trans women: Like sex work, drug dealing, or ending up dead in a ditch. They change it from maybe a trans person, or maybe the excuse is - ‘I don’t want black, I think we’re gonna go Latina for this, or we’re gonna go white for this.’ I’ve had that happen, yes! Oh, yes honey.”Īnd those are just the auditions she takes. “Sometimes they totally change the character. ![]() Through management, Taylor knows there have been roles she hasn’t booked because she was black. How much more proving myself do I need to do?” I’m not sitting up here saying that I am not grateful for what has been given to me, but if we’re gonna talk about this subject, let’s really put it out there,” Taylor said. “So I still have the rest of my day to come home and do auditions.”Īn avid fan of “How to Get Away With Murder,” Taylor agrees with Viola Davis and Mo’Nique, who have both spoken out about the pay disparity for black women in Hollywood. “I get up at 5:30, get to work, clock in at 6:25 - gotta get that extra little five minutes in there! - and I’m done by 3,” she said. Thankfully, she is now on a more manageable 40-hour work week. She was working double shifts during the first wave of the pandemic, pulling 16-hour days four days in a row for a harrowing total of 144 hours every two weeks. She auditions regularly, self-taping after her morning shift at the hospital. Not in LA.” Mya Taylor, Sean Baker and Kitana Kiki Rodriguez Daniel Bergeron Everything would just go up moving there, and I wouldn’t be able to live the life that I live here. ![]() My apartment is much cheaper here, my car insurance is much cheaper here. It’s scary to think about moving back to LA, because the life that I live here, it just wouldn’t be able to transfer there. “I created a life for myself here, I’m comfortable, I’m happy, I’m content. “I really miss Los Angeles, I really do, but I struggled there,” Taylor said. Her life in the midwest is easy and affordable, and she says North Dakota offers nurses the highest salaries of any state. ![]() “Oh, hell no! If people knew that I was trans, I wouldn’t be getting a job in any hospital or any nursing home in North Dakota,” Taylor said. Because of that, Taylor has been able to live and work peacefully as a woman in North Dakota. She rejects the word “closeted,” but admits that she is now “passable,” meaning the average person on the street would not be able to tell she is transgender. She initially moved in with a partner, but that relationship has since ended. That freedom also allowed a total career change: For the last four years, she has been living in North Dakota and working as a nurse.
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