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KAOS Star Misia Butler Says Elliot Page Is His “Biggest Queer Role Model”
Butler plays the romantic lead in a new Netflix show that retells Greek mythology stories with a modern twist.
By Quispe López August 30, 2024
Misia Butler never thought that, as a tranmasc person, he would be cast as a romantic lead. And yet that’s exactly what happened. In an as-told-to essay for Yahoo U.K. for Queer Voices, Butler opened up about playing Caeneus in Netflix’s new show KAOS, which retells stories from Greek mythology with a modern twist. Among other topics, the young actor touched on the inherent queerness of Greek mythology and his biggest role model: Elliot Page.
Butler wrote in the essay that Page, the original transmasculine heartthrob, has been an important inspiration for breaking down boundaries for trans people in film. From his early roles in Juno and Whip It to his latest work on Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, Butler says Page has in many ways paved the way for trans actors like him to continue shattering onscreen stereotypes.
“Elliot Page is probably my biggest queer role model, him coming out was such a moving thing for me because I’ve always felt this draw to him ever since I was a kid,” Butler recalled. “When The Umbrella Academy came out I was bingeing that, so when he came out as trans that felt like an almost earth shattering moment.”
But when Butler was growing up, before there was fuller representation for transmasculine people in television and film, he said he felt resigned to never being cast as a romantic lead. Because he hadn’t seen any transmasculine people play characters who were romantically sought after, he didn’t think it would be possible for him.
“For a long time I never asked anyone out, I never talked to people I was attracted to, because I thought, ‘Well, they’re never gonna view me that way because why would they? I don’t exist in that sphere,’” the actor wrote. “So I really hope that seeing Caeneus in that light helps other people.”
Through his romance with Riddy (played by Aurora Perrineau), Caeneus will become the primary romantic interest in the show. The actor described how his character Caeneus will explore his transness with subtlety, as his identity is organically embedded in the plot. Butler noted that Greek myths are already so queer, making KAOS the perfect setting for this kind of nuanced storytelling.
“The Greek myths are such a queer group of stories, so KAOS’s approach to inclusivity is amazing and the fact that it’s so understated is a real power,” he wrote. “I think it just naturally brings in the diversity of us as humans and, especially as a Greek myths nerd myself, I love how it brings out the diversity of the original myths in such a natural way.”
Butler’s work on KAOS will only expand the ever-growing canon of transmasculine representation on screen (Queer Percy Jackson and the Olympians fans, rejoice!), this time with some romance and flair that only a Greek mythological backdrop can bring. For those of you who are scrambling to add the series to your watch list, it’s currently available to stream on Netflix.
https://www.them.us/story/misia-butler-elliot-page-netflix-kaos-role-model
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KAOS promo has been appearing on my Netflix home page recently, but I’ve already got such a huge list of shows that I’m watching including The Umbrella Academy that I’m reluctant to add another, but perhaps this is one that I will add
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The kid keeps telling me I should stream and cut cable, but I just can’t do it; I get concerned about receiving local weather news. But, yes, this does make Netflix tempting!
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Aotearoa never got into cable, apart from in the city of Wellington, and even then I believe its penetration was not particularly successful. It seems our low population density, even in cities proved to be a hurdle that cable wasn’t able to overcome. That problem doesn’t occur with satellite broadcasting which was slightly more successful until Internet streaming became available.
Almost all of NZ has 1GB fibre internet available, and even in my town (population 17,000), my existing fibre connection is capable of running at up to 8GB if I chose to pay for a higher cost internet plan.
I subscribe to three streaming platforms: Amazon Prime as it is included free by my internet provider, and TVNZ+ which is a free streaming platform provided by NZ’s largest free to air TV broadcaster, and in my opinion has a better selection of programs than Amazon Prime. It has a huge selection of NZ content, unlike the other two streaming platforms. The third is Netflix and the only one we pay to subscribe to. It has the widest selection of shows and films, but has no local content at all.
For news I use a variety of internet news sites such as BBC, Al Jazeera, NBC (and occasionally Fox if I really want to know from the horse’s mouth what the current nonsense the radical right, Christian nationalists and MAGA cult are spewing). For a NZ perspective of international and local news, I go to sites such as Stuff, RNZ and TVNZ.
As far as weather is concerned, NZ has highly unpredictable weather – apparently one of the most difficult places on the planet to predict, and weather is extremely localised and can be totally different just 15 minutes away by car. The best source of weather forecasting is MetService – Te Ratonga Tirorangi which can narrow the area in question down to just a few square kilometres. Its service is free and updates and amends forecasts regularly – approximately every 15 minutes, unlike the weather app on my phone that only updates/amends forecasts once or twice per day.
PS. I have added KAOS to my viewing list 😀
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Reading this makes me think-I have internet access to the National Weather Service, whose radar I always pull up when storms are a’comin’, and I have my favorite local channel’s app loaded on my phone specifically for the weather. The arguments for keeping cable are dropping off… thanks, Barry!
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Not just me then.
Currently working my way through ‘Black Lightning’
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