... iris - menas - trans / . 9. For a first - hand account of mena's acting experience , see Horst , Carole . 2022. “ “ West Side Story's ' Iris Menas Brings New Dimension to Old Character . ” Variety , January 8 , 2022. https : // variety ...
... iris menas also plays aspiring Jet and liminal character Anybodys, and the role in the 2021 adaptation becomes more explicitly about a character exploring their gender identity.100 Tony Kushner's screenplay makes María, Anita, and ...
... Iris Menas, Anybodys is a barely tolerated “dickless wonder” as he is called by one of the Jets. “I ain't no goddamned girl!” he asserts, but when he tries to dance with the men in “Dance at the Gym,” executing Justin Peck's street ...
... iris menas (actor prefers lower case)) is used to achieve this effect. As in the 1961 version, the members of the Jets initially refuse to have Anybodys in their group. Tony, by contrast, proclaims his acceptance of Anybodys by giving ...
... ( Iris Menas ) shifted in characterization from a tomboy to trans and is the only character to single - handedly fight off five men and escape the police . The assault on the effeminate Baby John is all the more invasive , with Shrank ...
... iris menas, as Anybodys, the character who wants to be a Jet but, until the climax, is treated with disdain by them. Anybodys is a minor character in terms of the plot but is clearly related to the themes of tolerance and diversity ...
... Iris Menas), a suggestion of Kushner's.21 The 1961 West Side Story paved the way for Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film. Sam Crowl's chapter examines this landmark film in the context of the 1960s, illuminating how Zeffirelli's stage and ...
... Iris Menas , a trans actor , played Anybodys as a trans character . West Side Story's release in the United States occurred on 10 December 2021. Critics mostly reacted positively , some ecstatically . Brian Tallerico , for example ...
... Iris Menas ( Anybodys ) " 1 " I had learned the songs by heart and I kept singing them so much that I got on everyone's nerves . -Steven Spielberg , referring to his discovery of West Side Story at the age of ten SYNOPSIS New York City ...
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