In response to an investigation by ProPublica into the unsolved murders of three black trans women in Jacksonville, Florida, Laverne Cox has opened up about her experience with suicidal ideation to illustrate a larger point about the importance of not being misgendered. On Twitter, Cox shared a note Monday explaining…
In a roundtable interview published on Tuesday, Variety assembled a team of six trans actors to discuss representation and its impact, casting opportunities, discrimination in their industry, and more.
Here’s a strange little glimpse at Glam Masters, the Kim Kardashian-produced reality competition show about beauty YouTubers hosted by Laverne Cox, which is out February 28. It’s 30 minutes long—a bit lengthy for a “teaser,” but you know... why not?
The headline for Project Runway OG Christian Siriano’s tenth NYFW show is that he got Danielle Brooks, Selma Blair, and Ashley Graham to walk, which is pretty fucking great. Plus he orchestrated a situation in which attendees Laverne Cox, Whoopi Goldberg, Meg Ryan, Cardi B, Rihanna, and Molly Shannon all sat in a row,…
The network that brings you Project Runway, and Project Runway All Stars, will soon be airing a beauty competition executive produced by Kim Kardashian and hosted by Orange Is the New Black’s Laverne Cox, who will also serve as a judge.
Meeting Beyoncé at the Grammys and then casually working on a secret project with her is just a totally normal occurrence in the life of Laverne Cox.
Laverne Cox’s CBS legal drama Doubt appears to have been cancelled after two episodes, so it was only a matter of time before she got snapped up by another project. Very little time, actually.
Doubt was the rare new show from CBS this year to not center around the lives of white men; it co-starred Laverne Cox, making her the first trans actress to play a recurring trans character on a broadcast series. But now it appears to have been cancelled.
It is absurd that there should be any public discourse examining where people void their bladders and bowels in 2017, and yet that backward and childish discussion illustrates exactly where we are as a country. Thanks in no small part to the White House’s reversal of Obama’s 2016 directive ordering schools to grant…
In a segment from Wednesday night’s episode of Billy On the Street that is wildly funny until it screeches to an uncomfortable halt and suddenly isn’t, host Billy Eichner asks his guest, Keegan Michael Key, to name 10 gay celebrities in 60 seconds.
Fox’s long-awaited Rocky Horror reboot hits tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, and while it’s gotten less than stellar reviews—the Times called it “soul-killing”—there’s still gotta be a little magic in watching Laverne Cox take on Frank N. Furter, no? Work through your every emotion in the comments right here, together.…
As we inch closer to the possibly-good-but-maybe-not high school musical version of Rocky Horror coming to Fox, here is Laverne Cox’s version of “Sweet Transvestite,” via Vulture. Unlike the lackluster rendition of every theatre kid’s favorite, “Time Warp,” this isn’t half bad!
Here is a new entry into the “weird things celebrities spend actual money on while the only savings account I have is the jar of change on my desk” category: a masseuse who gives deep-tissue massages to stars like Kanye and Katy Perry—with her teeth.
In today’s Tweet Beat, science is cool, Chrissy Teigen loves motherhood and Laverne Cox hits DC.
The legal drama Doubt has been picked up as a CBS series, co-starring Orange Is the New Black’s Laverne Cox. And in a breakthrough for trans actors in Hollywood, it will be the first time a broadcast TV series will have a transgender person playing a recurring transgender character.
Remember the time CBS announced that they were making a Nancy Drew reboot, and your inner child polished the magnifying glass you purchased with your allowance during your Harriet the Spy phase and hollered and sang with unfettered joy? Sorry, but the network decided to cancel that project, which means television has…
From the moment she appeared in the first season of Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, Sophia Burset—played by Laverne Cox—became a fan favorite. Here, in this exclusive clip, Cox explains a small part about what makes the character so special.
In an interview with E Online, Laverne Cox said that she’s working hard to transform herself into Frank-N-Furter, the role that Tim Curry inscribed on all of our impressionable young minds. Fox announced in October that it was rebooting the musical and that Cox would star as the fishnet wearing “sweet transvestite…
Fox is rolling out more casting announcements for their fall 2016 remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The most recent actors to get casta-casta-caaaaasted alongside Laverne Cox’s Dr. Frank-N-Furter: Disney Channel/Nickelodeon youths Ryan McCartan and Victoria Justice as the waylaid couple Brad and Janet.
The Meredith Vieira Show will soon end its second season on NBC, which is surprising to no one. Daytime talk shows don’t have a long shelf life these days. Have we finally lost our appetite for mediocre TV?
