The Rise of Hunter Schafer: From Euphoria Star to Fashion Icon and Activist

2024-04-03 17:39:00
‘The actress Hunter Schafer poses at the ‘Cuckoo’ session at the Berlinale, last Friday, February 16, 2023 (Christoph Gollnow/dpa via AP)

The rumors were there and were confirmed on Tuesday followingnoon when, in an interview with GQ, Hunter Schafer (Trenton, New Jersey, 1998) admitted that she and Rosalía had been a couple for five months in 2019. “I have very close friends. beautiful with people with whom I had a romantic relationship,” he added, implying that there is no type of resentment between them. “There has been a lot of speculation for a long time,” he told the magazine. “One part of us wants to end all that and the other says: ‘But why, it’s nobody’s business!’” He stated. Both are “glad” to have told it, regardless of whether the news is confirmed five years later.

Speculation that there had been a romance between the two arose following the release of Tuya, the song that Rosalía released on June 9 (and the last song in her discography so far). A thread on In 2019, both of them had been seen very lovey-dovey in various videos and snapshots. The two met at the Burberry show and walked together on the carpet at the MET Gala.

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A few months ago, paparazzi captured the two enjoying the iconic smoothie from Erewhon (the organic ingredient store that charges $18 for the drink) on the streets of Los Angeles. After the breakup with Rauw Alejandro, whom she also met in 2019, it seems that both have been seen in public once more. For those who know nothing or little regarding her, Hunter Schafer became known following his appearance in Euphoria, the HBO series directed by Sam Levinson in which he played Jules, a young trans woman whose inner world was truncated. Upon meeting Rue (Zendaya), his routine begins to take on meaning and color.

Hunter Schafer and Rosalia (Credits: Instagram)

The fiction with which the American gained global fame hangs by a thread. The third season of the series seems to be going through many bumps that do not ensure its continuity on the platform. From Variety they point out that it is a simple delay in filming. “HBO and Sam Levinson remain committed to making an exceptional third season,” a spokesperson for the platform declared to the specialized media. “In the meantime, we are allowing our in-demand cast to pursue other opportunities,” he added. According to Deadline, the delay is because Levinson himself has not finished writing the script. Some of the bizarre ideas of a series that was prepared to return in 2025 (such as Rue’s character being a spy or surrogate) might be another reason for its pause.

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Hunter Schafer automatically became a totem of the LGTBIQ+ community following his appearance in Euphoria, especially following that special episode released in quarantine in which he opened up to talk regarding the experiences of his character (also a transsexual girl). Her beauty and her transgressive image elevated her in the universe of fashion and haute couture. Not in vain, her appearance in Levinson’s fiction placed her in all the fashion events of the season, including the MET Gala, the most important event of the year in the universe of couture.

You don’t live on red carpets alone. Hunter Schafer has also been the face of some of the most notable brands on the market, such as Prada or Thierry Mugler, and has walked for prestigious houses such as Dior, Miu Miu, Rick Owens, Helmut Lang, Tommy Hilfiger, Maison Margiela, Vera Wang, Marc Jacob or Ann Demeulemeester, among many others.

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Schafer was born in a house in which religion was an important pillar. Not in vain, his father Mac Schafer is a Presbyterian pastor, a job that subjected the family to constant transfer between churches and congregations in the country. Finally, together with her mother Katy Schafer, her two sisters and her brother, they ended up settling in Raleigh, North Carolina..

Hunter Schafer at the presentation of the film ‘The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ (REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni)

The actress and model says that, from a very young age, she began to express her more feminine side. She first confessed to her parents that she was a gay boy, but then she began to experience gender dysphoria, which led her to transition. Schafer didn’t need television, or the streaming universe, to make himself heard. In 2016, at the age of 17, she was part of the lawsuit once morest the bill in North Carolina that prevented trans people from using the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity. The action not only repealed the law, it also established her as one of the most prominent young activists in the United States, a status she defended in an interview with Hillary Clinton.

Her social side does not end there, since on February 26, Schafer was arrested in New York along with 32 other people for demonstrating, together with the anti-Zionist organization Jewish Voice for Peace, in favor of the Palestinian position following the new episode of attacks. between Israel and Hamas.

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The American has taken longer to establish herself in the acting universe, especially if we take into account the rise of some of the profiles that have accompanied her in Euphoria: Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney or Jacob Elordi. Last year she was part of the cast of the new film of one of Hollywood’s most thriving teenage sagas, The Hunger Games; ballad of songbirds and snakes. However, she is regarding to release some of the most anticipated films of the year. She stars in Cuckoo, Tilman Singer’s horror film that will be released on August 9. She will also be present in Kinds of Kindness, by Yorgos Lanthimos (which will be released in Spain in the summer), in Mother Mary by David Lowery and in OD, the horror video game created by Hideo Kojima and Jordan Peele.

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