In filmmaker Vuk Lungulov-Klotz’s feature debut, actor Lío Mehiel plays an unconventional antihero who comes face-to-face with three figures from his past.
Elaina Patton
“The fact that it was so much about a person who wants to be loved, who doesn’t feel like they’re necessarily worthy of that love, was exciting to me,” Mehiel told NBC News. Amid the chaos of the day’s twists and turns — which leave Feña with a head wound, without a phone or wallet, and eventually having to ask John to borrow his beat-up car — what stands out about Mehiel’s performance is how they communicate Feña’s palpable wariness around people, including his intimate acquaintances.
“Instead of him being a more traditional antihero, people tend to really connect with him, which makes it so that they feel like they have a trans friend. It makes them feel more connected to the trans experience, because they understand that it’s just human and universal,” Mehiel said. “There were a few identity markers that were kind of uncanny,” Mehiel said. “I’m half Puerto Rican, half Greek, which is kind of weirdly similar to the ethnicity of the character, and Spanish was my first language, but, upon moving to New York when I was 5, I lost some of the language.”
Malaysia Latest News, Malaysia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Autistic girl, 9, vanishes from Brooklyn Ikea, her orange Crocs found in nearby waterPolice are frantically searching for an autistic 9-year-old girl who likely wandered into the Red Hook Channel in Brooklyn Wednesday night, according to law enforcement sources.
Read more »
Autistic boy, 9, vanishes from Brooklyn Ikea, his orange Crocs found in nearby waterPolice are frantically searching for an autistic 9-year-old boy who likely wandered into the Red Hook Channel in Brooklyn Wednesday night, according to law enforcement sources.
Read more »
Before fleeing police, Cleveland driver lets out resident with dog: Brooklyn Police BlotterIn this week’s Brooklyn Police Blotter, police observed a Nissan Rogue that came back stolen traveling on Biddulph Road.
Read more »
Nine-year-old dead after disappearing from Brooklyn IKEAOfficials said they found the child floating in the store’s surrounding waters after midnight Thursday.
Read more »
9-year-old autistic boy who went missing from Brooklyn Ikea found dead: policeNew York police said a 9-year-old boy who went missing in Brooklyn, New York, after he exited an Ikea in Red Hook, where his family was shopping, was found dead.
Read more »
Body of missing 9-year-old boy with autism found on shore in Red Hook, BrooklynThe desperate search for a missing boy came to a heartbreaking end overnight.
Read more »