Scroll To Top
Sense8

Jamie Clayton Is Shocked People Are Upset Over Sense8's Queer Sex Scenes (and Not the Violence)

Jamie Clayton Is Shocked People Are Upset Over 'Sense8's' Queer Sex Scenes (and Not the Violence)

Jamie Clayton Is Shocked People Are Upset Over 'Sense8's' Queer Sex Scenes (and Not the Violence)

The trans actress shares her thoughts on Sense8 season 2!

cornbreadsays

Transgender actress Jamie Clayton sat down with NewNowNext to discuss the upcoming second season of Sense8, playing a trans character on television, and what's to come for our heroes.

Sense8 follows eight people across the globe who are suddenly granted the power of sensates, a hivemind that allows them to communicate with each other telepathically. As they discover their powers, they begin to be hunted by powerful force named BPO, and the sensates must work together to survive. Clayton plays the character of Nomi Marks, an ass-kicking transgender hacker living with her girlfriend in San Francisco.

Clayton, a transgender woman, has the unique opportunity to play a transgender character, and believes that Nomi and her girlfriend, Amanita, have the strongest relationship on the show. "Nomi has the most honest relationship in the series," she explains. "One of the reasons I wanted this project was I wanted to play a trans character whose story wasn’t about her being trans."

[iframe //giphy.com/embed/1gOn1bO5CEHfO allowfullscreen="" class=^{{"giphy-embed"}}^ frameborder="0" height="277.6119402985075" width="480"]

How Sense8 dives into the personal lives of such wildly different people is part of the reason the show is so captivating, but not everyone thinks so. "Of all the negative comments we get, I’m always surprised how people are offended by the sex, but not the violence. Two people of the same gender, or people of different skin, sets them off. But the fighting and all that is fine. That says something is off in our culture."

Read the full interview here and stream season two of Sense8 on Netflix this Friday, May 5th.

30 Years of Out100Out / Advocate Magazine - Jonathan Groff and Wayne Brady

From our Sponsors

Most Popular

Latest Stories

author avatar

Taylor Henderson

Taylor Henderson is a PRIDE.com contributor. This proud Texas Bama studied Media Production/Studies and Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin, where he developed his passions for pop culture, writing, and videography. He's absolutely obsessed with Beyoncé, mangoes, and cheesy YA novels that allow him to vicariously experience the teen years he spent in the closet. He's also writing one! 

Taylor Henderson is a PRIDE.com contributor. This proud Texas Bama studied Media Production/Studies and Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin, where he developed his passions for pop culture, writing, and videography. He's absolutely obsessed with Beyoncé, mangoes, and cheesy YA novels that allow him to vicariously experience the teen years he spent in the closet. He's also writing one!