Olivia Colman has an unexpected take on her gender identity.
The Oscar winner, 52, said that she feels like she’s “nonbinary” and “a gay man” while discussing her relationship with the LGBTQIA+ community in a new interview with the outlet Them.
“I think it’s a community that I love being welcomed into,” Colman, who stars in the new LGBTQIA+ movie “Jimpa,” said.
“I find the most loving and the most beautiful stories are from that community,” she continued. “And I feel really honored to be welcomed.”
The “Crown” actress went on, “Throughout my whole life, I’ve had arguments with people where I’ve always felt sort of nonbinary. Don’t make that a big sort of title! But I’ve never felt massively feminine in my being female. “
Colman shared that she’s “always described” herself to her husband, Ed Sinclair, “as a gay man.”
“And he goes, ‘Yeah, I get that,’” she stated.
The couple — who have been married since 2001 — share three children: sons Finn, 20, and Hall, 18, and a 10-year-old daughter whose name they’ve kept private.
During her interview with Them, Colman explained that she feels “at home and at ease” with the LGBTQIA+ community.
“I feel like I have a foot in various camps. I know many people who do,” she shared. “I don’t really spend an awful lot of time with people who are very staunchly heterosexual … The men I know and love are very in touch with all sides of themselves.”
Speaking more about her marriage to Sinclair, Colman said the pair “take turns to be the ‘strong one,’ or the one who needs a little bit of gentleness” in their relationship.
“I believe everyone has all of it in them. I’ve always felt like that,” she added.
In “Jimpa,” Colman plays a filmmaker named Hannah who travels with her nonbinary teenage daughter Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) to visit her gay grandfather Jim (John Lithgow) in Amsterdam.
Colman told Them how she could relate to her character in the film.
“I suppose I am on the outside. I have a heterosexual relationship,” she said. “But in the world I live in, I’m with queer community a lot.”
“So I suppose there’s similarities there,” the “Fleabag” actress added. “Although I have less of an insight than Hannah, because Hannah grew up with it.”
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