WARNING: This post contains spoilers for Netflix’sGlamorous.
Like the gender non-conforming makeup maven she plays onGlamorous, Miss Benny is ready to make her mark.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What is your earliest memory of performing?
Miss Benny.Credit: Netflix
MISS BENNY:I have three older siblings and we were all homeschooled.
I think because I was the youngest, I was always the star of them.
What was your first professional project?
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I was working the circuit when it came to commercials.
What did you learn from your run of guest-star gigs?
All my guest-star spots were confirming to me that something was bubbling.
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Then, when the script forGlamorouscame around, I remember thinking very distinctly, “This is the one.
This is the moment.”
In my case, it was not fighting against the fact that I am a flamboyant queer person.
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What stands out the most from yourGlamorousaudition?
So I went into theGlamorousaudition toned down already, in anticipation of that.
The only note they gave me for my callback was “we want you to be yourself.”
They knew me to be a very flamboyant and vibrant person.
That’s something they were looking for, so the next audition I didn’t hold back at all.
What was your favorite part of shootingGlamourous and what was the most challenging?
The cast is just incredible.
Everybody’s so funny and loves the show.
We all feel protective over it and how important it is.
It was fun to create escapist television.
I was working 14- to 16-hour days for five months.
I have so many amazing tools that I wouldn’t have otherwise.
That’s what happens when queer people finally get these opportunities to be part of something on this scale.
I’ve always looked up to leading women of TV shows and movies that I’ve watched.
I always had fantasies about Carrie Bradshaw, a fabulous figure balancing love life and friendships.
What was filming with Kim Cattrall like?
I was starstruck the whole time.
Fortunately, Marco is also supposed to be starstruck, so it was pretty easy to channel into that.
I was a hugeSex and the Cityfan, and Samantha’s specifically was such an icon to me.
They butt heads in the way that me and my siblings do.
We played our scenes with just a little bit of underlying sense of flirting.
Hopefully it will create a lot of great conversation.
What was your reaction to Marco’s step forward on their journey of self discovery in the finale?
The ending of the show is very intentional.
It was important to me that anything to do with Marco’s gender identity not be a twist.
What song other than one of your own would you choose to do in real life?
That would be very, very iconic.
