And I said, “Wait, wait, you mean like Jurassic Park? Jurassic World? You mean Jurassic Universal? Okay, I’m in!”
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Then fast-forward to August, we got the call: “Hey, you know that thing that you did last year? Well you got cast in it.” Then I started getting the information: It’s a movie by Billy Eichner, with Nicholas Stoller, Judd Apatow, Universal Pictures. The producers are trying to figure out what’s gonna happen with this whole COVID pandemic, see if it’s a thing.” It became a thing, and then that thing closed us down, so I went about my life doing everything and nothing at all. I had my manager email the casting agency to see what was going on, and they were like, “Oh no, no, there weren’t any decisions yet. I was like, Oh, I really must have bombed. I read for everybody’s role in the room, and then I didn’t hear anything. I read the side for every boardroom character except for Robert, who ended up being played by Jim Rash. I got an email from a casting company saying, “Hey, the producers are interested in you reading the sides for Cherry.” When you get sides for a movie, you don’t know what the movie’s about, you don’t know a backstory or anything. Ahead of Bros’ wide release on September 30, Madison opened up about being a Black trans woman in the middle of a white gay love story being in a film produced by Judd Apatow, whose previous movies like 40-Year-Old Virgin have included homophobic and transphobic jokes and what it would look like if one day she’s allowed to tell her own story at the Bros level. In the context of Bros, the first gay rom-com produced by a major studio for theaters, that role will make her the sole voice for Black trans women in a lot more rooms than just the ones onscreen. The board is made up of an assortment of queer people, all of whom represent different factions of the queer community, with Angela being the sole voice in the room for Black trans women.
In Bros, Ts Madison plays Angela, a member of a board working alongside Eichner’s character, Bobby, to develop the national museum of LGBTQ history. Now, she’s making her biggest step into the mainstream yet with a large supporting role in Billy Eichner’s upcoming romantic comedy, Bros. Last year, she played a small role in Janicza Bravo’s Zola. She was the first Black trans woman to star in and produce her own talk show, WeTV’s The Ts Madison Experience.
She was recently included among the legion of Black queer creators sampled on Beyoncé’s Renaissance, appearing on the song “Cozy.” She’s been a recurring judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Eight years later, she’s getting closer to the mainstream than ever. At the time, she was working from home as a porn star, adding the “Ts” to her name because it was an internet-porn search-friendly moniker denoting her as a “transsexual.” Though the internet of 2014 may have been laughing at her, she was able to laugh her way to the bank: She bought her first home with the money she made from her work in porn after the publicity of Vine increased her subscriptions. When she first blew up on Vine due to the indelible sight of her bragging about her “New weave, 22 inches,” then twerking naked, it was clear: This was a person who was meant to be seen. If pure unadulterated star power was the only feature necessary for success, Ts Madison would have been a household name a long time ago.
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