Olivia Colman has an unexpected take on her gender identity.
The Oscar winner, 52, said that she feels like sheâs ânonbinaryâ and âa gay manâ while discussing her relationship with the LGBTQIA+ community in a new interview with the outlet Them.
âI think itâs a community that I love being welcomed into,â Colman, who stars in the new LGBTQIA+ movie âJimpa,â said.
âI find the most loving and the most beautiful stories are from that community,â she continued. âAnd I feel really honored to be welcomed.â
The âCrownâ actress went on, âThroughout my whole life, Iâve had arguments with people where Iâve always felt sort of nonbinary. Donât make that a big sort of title! But Iâve never felt massively feminine in my being female. â
Colman shared that sheâs âalways describedâ herself to her husband, Ed Sinclair, âas a gay man.â
âAnd he goes, âYeah, I get that,ââ she stated.
The couple â who have been married since 2001 â share three children: sons Finn, 20, and Hall, 18, and a 10-year-old daughter whose name theyâve kept private.
During her interview with Them, Colman explained that she feels âat home and at easeâ with the LGBTQIA+ community.
âI feel like I have a foot in various camps. I know many people who do,â she shared. âI donât really spend an awful lot of time with people who are very staunchly heterosexual ⊠The men I know and love are very in touch with all sides of themselves.â
Speaking more about her marriage to Sinclair, Colman said the pair âtake turns to be the âstrong one,â or the one who needs a little bit of gentlenessâ in their relationship.
âI believe everyone has all of it in them. Iâve always felt like that,â she added.
In âJimpa,â Colman plays a filmmaker named Hannah who travels with her nonbinary teenage daughter Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) to visit her gay grandfather Jim (John Lithgow) in Amsterdam.
Colman told Them how she could relate to her character in the film.
âI suppose I am on the outside. I have a heterosexual relationship,â she said. âBut in the world I live in, Iâm with queer community a lot.â
âSo I suppose thereâs similarities there,â the âFleabagâ actress added. âAlthough I have less of an insight than Hannah, because Hannah grew up with it.â
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