John Orquiola is the head of Screen Rant's Star Trek Movies & TV coverage, a Senior Features staff writer, and Interviewer.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary Blu del Barrio has come into their own as Ensign Adira Tal in Star Trek: Discovery season 5. Del Barrio is the first non-binary actor in Star Trek, and Adira has grown into an invaluable member of the USS Discovery's crew.
Screen Rant had the pleasure of chatting with Blu del Barrio about Star Trek: Discovery coming to an end, their pride in the show's LGBTQ+ representation, what it was like to dress up as a Breen, and their hopes for Adira's future in Star Trek. I did see it the other day, and I turned it into that meme of Matthew McConaughey crying in Interstellar. I was emotionally a mess for the rest of the day. It was beautiful.
Blu del Barrio: It's the thing that I'm most proud of, being a part of this cast, because, and I've said this before... and it's still very strange to me that it's true... But the representation that Ian and I provide on this show is probably the representation that would have helped me when I came out as a kid. To stay out of the closet and have people validate me and to have characters on TV that were validating my experience, because I didn't have that.
Blu del Barrio: Oh, it was so rough! You look so cool. It is so heavy and difficult to move around in. It's like wearing a piece of art because it is a piece of art. It took them months and months and months to actually craft these suits. And I don't even know how much they're worth, like probably priceless. We had, like, five fittings for each of us, I think, over the span of filming the season, getting ready for this.
Blu del Barrio: I don't know anything about how it was meant to progress. There was a myriad of things that I hoped for Adira. I always wanted Adira to go and to have some experience with the Mirror Universe. I always thought that would be really fun. I love the Mirror Universe, I really wanted to be a part of that. I would have loved to go back and see more of Adira’s story back on Earth. Like, before Discovery. I would have loved to learn more of the history behind that.
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