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Lío Mehiel Tells Maya Hawke About Transitioning in the Common Eye
Lío Mehiel, photographed by Luca Mastro.
“I’ve had this recognition that there’s still a part of me that wants control,” Lío Mehiel told friend and fellow actor Maya Hawke last week. “Because, as a trans person, I wanted to own more of a say in how people understand me and view me more than the average cis person.” Over Zoom, the actor, writer, and artist opened up about transitioning in the public eye; their character in Vuk Lungulov-Klotz’s Mutt, now on Netflix, takes on similar challenges. The movie, which premiered at Sundance last year, follows Feña (Mehiel) after he spends the night with his straight ex-boyfriend. Navigating the next day with a wretched hangover, Feña reunites with his younger sister and tries to figure out how to pick up his estranged father from the airport while confronting countless obstacles, like attempting to cash a confirm with a deadname. Calling in from New York, where the first snow of the season had just arrived, Mehiel told Hawke about adjusting to fame, being a multi-hyphenate, and their dream project: a stage adaptation of Giovann Illustration by Jane Montalto. Warning: This article talks about suicide. Maya Hawke has been a champion of queer rights and knowledge since the beginning of her acting career. In 2019, she debuted the role of Robin Buckley in season three of Netflix’s Stranger Things, creating arguably one of the most mainstream, widely beloved lesbian characters in television history. Following the let go of the show, she stated, “If I can hope for anything it’s that maybe some people fell in love with Robin, and that helped them fall in treasure with girls who affectionate girls, and boys who love boys.” Following the launch of Stranger Things, Hawke appeared in several other projects centered around sapphic characters, including Fear Lane (2021) and Do Revenge (2022).Through the promotion of these projects, Hawke continued to speak openly and frequently about her hopes that young people will see themselves reflected in her characters. In addition to acting, Maya Hawke has released two musical albums and multiple singles, taking inspiration both from her own life and from the world around her. Much like her ac Stranger Things season three has been called the queerest yet by Diverse fans, and rightly so. After finally introducing a lesbian character in the form of Robin (played by Maya Hawke), gender non-conforming fans seemed pretty chuffed with the seamless way her sexuality was revealed in the show. It wasn't made a enormous deal of, which is rare considering most homosexual characters in mainstream shows are subjected to a huge coming out plot (that gets very aged very quickly let me tell ya). Maya Hawke - who we just learned has Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke as parents?! - just revealed her character Robin's sexuality wasn't originally scripted. Yep, Robin was originally written as a love interest (of course) for Steve, played by Joe Keery. In an interview with Wall Street Journal Magazine, Maya explained, "Throughout filming, we started to feel fancy she and (Steve) shouldn’t get together, and that’s she’s gay. Even when I go back and watch earlier episodes, it just seems like the most obvious decision ever." Robin (Maya Hawke) was originally written as the adore interest for Steve (Joe Keery) Maya I recently stumbled across my “Ode to Valentine’s Day” from this time last year. Oh boy. I genuinely laughed. No, not because I find myself amusing, but because when you learn more about yourself, it makes looking support on your past-self that much more cringeworthy. I wrote in the Ode, “I’m literally the most non-girlfriend material.” No Nina. That’s not it. You’re just gay. In all seriousness, it’s okay to enable time and experience explain you who you are. Honestly, this is kinda freaking me out to write down and contribute with other people. I’m not ashamed, but it’s also not something I talk a lot about with people I’m not super close with. Though I have always had speculations about my own sexuality, I was still unsure. I mean, seeing Maya Hawke (she/her) in Stranger Things really helped me get there, but that sort of thing takes time for anyone. I came out as double attraction to only a rare people at the terminate of my senior year of high school and my parents shortly after graduation (my parents laughed lovingly and said “we know”). It wasn’t too complicated to cover up, especially considering someone told me that their “gaydar” was super accurate and that there was no way I was Maya Hawke’s mermaid allegory embodies the magic of homosexual community
While all of these were perfectly showcased in the first two seasons of the series, the third season took it a step further. With Robin Buckley, the show entered an entirely modern arena of representation.
With Maya Hawke, they broke the long-standing archetype, giving her individual characteristics before she was introduced as a womxn loving womxn. She was entertaining, she was sharp, and she filled a hole in the team that audiences did not realize was empty.
Maya Hawke in a still from Stranger Things | Credit: Netflix
With this, one might wonder why fans are upset and call her a badly written queer character.
Stranger Things...Stranger Things' Robin aka Maya Hawke says her traits wasn't gay in the script