Olivia Colman has revealed for the first time that she has always felt ‘nonbinary’ in a new interview to promote her latest film Jimpa
Oscar award wining actress Olivia Colman has revealed that she has always “felt sort of nonbinary” in an interview to promote her latest film, Jimpa. The film follows the life of Hannah played by Olivia and her nonbinary daughter Frances, played by Aud Mason-Hyde, who travel to Amsterdam to visit her gay grandfather, known by the family name of Jimpa.
During an interview to promote her latest project Olivia, 52, candidly explained that she had never felt comfortable with “rigid gender roles”, which she is equally open about in her marriage to Ed Sinclair.
In the interview, she said: “Throughout my whole life, I’ve had arguments with people where I’ve always sort of felt nonbinary.” She added: “I’ve never felt massive feminine in my being female. I’ve always described myself to my husband as a gay man. And he goes ‘yeah I get that’. And so I do feel at home and at ease.”
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The star of The Roses continued to tell the publication Them: “I don’t really spend a whole 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. I think with my husband and I, we take turns to be the ‘strong one,’ or the one who needs a little bit of gentleness. I believe everyone has all of it in them. I’ve always felt like that.”
She then went on to add: “I’m not alone in saying, ‘I don’t feel like it’s binary.’ And I loved that. I came away from making this film with, Yeah, I knew I wasn’t alone.”
Olivia and Ed tied the knot in 2001 and the pair share three children together, Finn, 20, Hall, 18 and a ten year old daughter. The couple first met during rehearsals for the production of Table Manners.
Ed, who is currently a screenwriter and film producer, was a budding actor at the time they first met. His most recent film, The Roses, was produced by himself and starred his wife alongside Benedict Cumberbatch.
Casting her mind back to the first time she saw Ed, Olivia told the publication: “I’d gone to two of the rehearsals and there was no one particularly fanciable there. Then I walked in and I saw his left-hand profile. “
“At the time he was smoking a ciggie, his feet were crossed, and he’s got this lovely bump in his nose and I saw his side profile and just went, oh my God, I’m going to marry him. ‘I had proper thunderbolts: that’s him, that’s him! Poor thing, he didn’t know.”
Speaking about her marriage back in 2013, the actress told The Daily Mail: “My husband and I were very lucky. We met when we had nothing and we loved each other then. So we were all right.We were 20 and he was also an actor. If you meet at that age then you’re fine.”
Explaining the secret to her decades long marriage she told the Good Hang podcast: “We’re not big fighters, which apparently isn’t very healthy. We have learned over the years – but really late on actually – to sometimes [think], if that was annoying, just wait.”
She added: “And it doesn’t work for everyone, I know that, but I think it’s much better to wait until the calmer moments to go, ‘Can we talk about that moment? I did find that a little weird and is that OK that I’m saying this and yes I was a bit cross that day’…”
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