"Making it not a tokenized version of an experience, but actually a fully thought-out, fully lived-in human experience that is part of Taylor's life and therefore part of the world of Billions. "It's just a credit to the creators and the writers for being so thoughtful about the ways that they weave that stuff into the show," says 37-year-old Dillon over the phone. And while Billions writes in those infractions, it's used sparingly, never becoming a punchline or defining Taylor as One Thing. They come in blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments, but if you're sensitive to it, those quick lines shoot like barbs.
#Asia kate dillon tv#
Even though he hardly batted an eye destroying Taylor's relationship with Mike Birbiglia's Oscar Landstraat in Season 3, and even relished squashing their independence in starting the environmentally focused Taylor Mason Carbon, Axe drew battle lines against anyone who would misgender Taylor, who uses they/them pronouns, as does Dillon, who called for the end of gendering acting categories in award shows years ago.Īs the first ever non-binary lead character in a TV show, Taylor's enemies and allies can be often be identified by how a person genders them. And no one has been fucked over more, especially by Axe's self-centered plays, than his own genius protegé, the young financial advisor Taylor. From the first scene that Asia Kate Dillon's Taylor Mason was introduced in Season 2 at a charity poker game between "the billies" (as Paul Giamatti's Chuck Rhoades now classifies them), Billions transformed from a cheeky finance bro faceoff between District Attorney Rhoades and billionaire hedge-fund visionary Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis) to a richly layered show about the cost of insidious greed.
0 kommentar(er)
