The New Faces of Pride: Isaiah Stannard – E! Online

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The New Faces of Pride: Isaiah Stannard - E! Online

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With the world gradually starting to come out on the other side of the coronavirus pandemic, this Pride season is among remarkable event. And yet, the spirit of a motion itself substantiated of a demonstration survives on. As the month of June ends and International Pride Day nears, E! News has actually asked a few of Hollywood’s latest generation of LGBTQ stars to share what Pride suggests to them in 2021.

Welcome to The New Faces of Pride.

Crediting series such as FX’s groundbreaking drama Pose and HBO’s Euphoria, Isaiah Stannard would concur “there’s slowly more representation and better representation” of trans stories on screen. “I think Hollywood is changing,” he kept in mind in an interview with Brut, “but there’s a long way to go.”

Among the slivers of motivation: His story on NBC’s Good Girls. 

Writers were initially looking for a male star to play Ben, the cisgender child of Mae Whitman‘s Annie. When the call was open to stars of all genders, 16-year-old Isaiah—designated woman at birth and passing Izzy at the time—accomplished in one audition. Shortly after, he discovered he was trans—which is when motivation struck.