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Golda Rosheuvelis out and proud — but she was once discouraged against it.
During an appearance on theJust for Varietypodcast, theBridgertonstar spoke to host Marc Malkin about an early career experience that left her feeling “confused.” Rosheuvel had recalled the advice an unidentified lesbian director gave her about keeping her sexuality a secret.
“I really admired her and I was … really confused. This is really bizarre. How come I can be out privately to my family, to my friends every day, but there’s something about being professionally out and publicly out,” she began.
“We were talking about being out and proud and representation and whether I should say I was gay in interviews. And it was an absolute no. ‘You absolutely shouldn’t do that. It could or it would ruin your career as an actor,'” she recalled. “I would rather lose a job than not be true to who I am. I’d rather not work in an industry that doesn’t accept me. It just wasn’t how I was raised.”
“This is the thing that blows my mind as well. I pretend to be other people. I hope to play a serial killer at one point in my life because to explore [and] to investigate that psyche, which is what I do for a living. I investigate the human nature. But that doesn’t mean that I am one,” she continued. “I’ve played straight roles and I’ve loved every single minute of it.”
She added, “Love is love. It doesn’t matter whether it’s between a man or a woman when you are an actor creating a character, investigating the human nature and human desire and human love. So yeah, it doesn’t compute sometimes for me, the conversation that is being had over not coming out. It’s strange.”
Rosheuvel says it’s important for sexual orientation to be normalized in society.
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“I think it’s really important to — and I hate saying this — normalize our lives and for people to just accept that we exist, that our lives are important,” she said. “… Representation is really important, whether its race whether its sexuality whether its men whether its women — whatever it is. Representation is important.”
She continued, “I’m out and proud. My sexuality is really important to me, in terms of existing, in terms of being around the campfire and knowing that I’m important. I’m as important as anyone on the planet.”
And being out didn’t hurt Rosheuvel’s career in the slightest. The actress, of course, has a prominent role inBridgertonportraying a fictionalized version of Queen Charlotte. After her character became a fan favorite, Netflix announcedplans to launch a spinoff seriestied to her origins.
Rosheuvel has also built up an impressive stage career with credits includingMacbeth,Jesus Christ SuperstarandOthello.
On Saturday, the Human Rights Campaign ishonoring Rosheuvel with the Equality Awardat the 2022 HRC Greater New York Dinner. Actor Brian Michael Smith will deliver the address, andJessie Jis set to perform.
Rosheuvel has been dating writer Shireen Mula for the last nine years. Addressing the possibility of marriage between the two, the actress said on the podcast: “We’ll see, we’ll see. I mean, you know, I don’t see myself with any other person.”
source: people.com
