Showrunner Steve Blackman explains how he included the actor’s personal journey within the series by introducing Viktor: “I’m very proud of that.”
The script of the third season from The Umbrella Academyjust got up Netflixit was ready when Elliot Page called the showrunner of the series Steve Blackman to share the news of his transition with him. However, the screenwriter felt it was very important to incorporate his life path into the new episodes and quickly got in touch with the scripts. The result? Elliot Page’s coming out as transgender coincided with Viktor Hargreeves’ that we see in this third season. Now that the new episodes are available, Blackman has been able to explain the whole process and the details of a creative choice that he associations LGBTQ + such as the GLAAD Media Institute and many fans have already welcomed.
The Umbrella Academy: This is how Viktor was introduced
Speaking with TVLine, Blackman said he immediately got in touch with Nick Adamsvice president of the GLAAD Media Institute, which in turn put him in contact with the transgender writer and boxer Thomas Page McBee. Together with the latter and with Elliot Page himself, he thus tackled the delicate discourse of Viktor’s gender identity. “We wanted it not to be the story of the season. We wanted it to be a story, or a part of the story, but not to eclipse the rest,” Blackman explained. McBee himself, in an article published recently in Esquire, stated that writing about Viktor’s transition presented “an opportunity to show an organic transition, so fundamental to the character, that it could only work in concert with each other’s strings. characters, do not eclipse them “.
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Steve Blackman and the importance of making Viktor’s transition familiar with the Hargreeves
According to Blackman, it was equally important to show thereaction of Viktor’s brothers after learning the news. Although each with different tempos, the members of the Hargreeves family have shown complete support from the beginning, which the showrunner found essential to the unfolding of the season. “We wanted to tell a story that was truly pro-trans, authentic, sensitive and showing that families can accept trans people in their livesand it doesn’t have to be a bad thing as it’s often portrayed in the media, “he noted.” That was key. I’ve been talking to Elliot and Thomas the whole time and I’m really proud of how we’ve handled it. I understand the transition. it was introduced in a way that made us all feel comfortable, ”concluded Blackman.
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