The Sandman and Quantum Leap's Mason Alexander Park opens up about television's impact in changing queer lives
s first non-binary MC, Mason is helping to carve out a space for more meaningful, authentic queer representation and they are proud to be a part of this changing landscape.they talk about the profound effect shows like those mentioned above are having on shaping the conversation around queerness and why this change is ultimately a terrifying yet beautiful thing.In a previous interview you said that the costume really informs the role for you.
Do you feel like you really got to have your own say and your own voice in kind of shaping the character? It's a deeply troublesome story. The fact that people can relate to it in this day and age with all of the hyper-fixation that we're seeing on marginalised communities, with the way that they're being demonised; the way that trans people and people of colour and Jewish people – all of these marginalised groups that have really experienced such disturbing hardship.
I find that when you're in a community, in the theatre, when there's a group of people, it can be quite religious. It can be quite church-like in a way, where it's a group of individuals of various backgrounds and experiences, coming to experience a story that sort of mirrors themes and experiences within just the human condition.
They deem themselves very normal and the second that any diversity is sort of included in media that they consume, it sort of shocks their system a bit, because they're like, "Wait, I'm not the only person in the world anymore." [And you're like, "Yeah, people of colour exist. Gay people exist, and women exist, and trans people exist."]. You're still going to be the hero in half the things that exist.
That's always a tough one, especially because I feel like it's hard not to give advice and not be super-bleak, right? I feel like my answer [is] really basic, but it's just to stick it out. That is really beautiful advice. What was the moment of LGBTQ+ representation onscreen that mattered to you?and Tim Curry in. Those two films, I found when I was in high school, around the same time that I found. There was just something really euphoric and exciting about seeing gender non-conforming characters as the leads in stories, and being really complicated, and kind of being the baddies of their own stories.
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