“I’m endlessly fascinated by depictions of masculinity,” he says. “The kinds of men in the world are as numerous as grains of sand. Yet we are fixated on this two-dimensional notion of masculinity, and a lot of people—especially the characters I play—they’re plagued by it, deformed by it. They spend their lives contorting themselves to fit in, being told they can only be and feel one specific thing, when humanity doesn’t work that way. We’re complex and contradictory beings, regardless of gender.”
