Posted on 11/30/2019 4:51:22 PM PST by EdnaMode
At 82 years old, actor Billy Dee Williams is still finding new ways to make himself the epitome of cool.
In a feature profile for Esquire, the man known for playing Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise – a role he’s reprising this winter for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – talks about how he freely identifies with both he/him/himself and she/her/herself pronouns. It’s not immediately clear if Williams has a clear preference for one set of pronouns or not.
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“I never tried to be anything except myself,” Williams said. “I think of myself as a relatively colorful character who doesn’t take himself or herself too seriously.”
In the article, most of the topics being discussed focus on Williams’ career, which started on Broadway at age 8. He also explores finding success as a painter, and how Carrie Fisher’s and Harrison Ford’s much-gossiped romance on the set of Star Wars films didn’t bother him the slightest.
Yet, the most surprising detail to arise from the article was Williams’ definition of his gender expression.
“And you see I say ‘himself’ and ‘herself,’ because I also see myself as feminine as well as masculine,” Williams tells Esquire Culture Editor Matt Miller. “I’m a very soft person. I’m not afraid to show that side of myself.”
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Dilly Bee.
Dee
He set the gaydar off decades ago.
Don’t wanna know anything about Billy Dee’s fluids...0
Lol!!
An old black actor suddenly wakes up one day and decides he’s mentally unstable.
Wow. News. Like, breaking, like...
A real role model, that one...
I loved Action Jackson.
If I self identified as any of those, I would be guilty of extreme self delusion.
Maybe fraud as well.
I can't tell real life news stories from The Onion parodies anymore!
Geez
LGBTotalitarian. I like the Q posters on FR.
At 82 years old, the only thing fluid about Billy Dee is the inside of his Depends...
You're 10-ply bud
Keep your fluids to yourself.
So the “epitome of cool” now means being a confused lecherous old idiot. Got it.
Can someone be species fluid as well? Do we have to accept, not just acknowledge, the claims of those with psychological disorders?
And in other important news today...
Sheesh....
Zappa. The crux of the biscuit.
Liberals talk about how repressive the 1950s were, yet Liberace was one of the most popular entertainers of that era. Everybody knew he was gay, and he knew that everybody knew it, and nobody cared, because it was dealt with the right way....discreetly.
:^)
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