Notts born actor LaQuarn Lewis is one of the stars of a new BBC mini-series, What It Feels Like For A Girl, which tells the story of Byron, a Queer teen who is desperate to escape the confines of Hucknall. We caught up with LaQuarn on the podcast to chat about the show, his time at Television Workshop and growing up Queer in Notts...
LaQuarn is a rising actor who studied at Nottingham’s Television Workshop, and stars in a new BBC Three drama, What It Feels Like For a Girl. Based on a book of the same name by Notts born journalist Paris Lees, it is inspired by Paris’ own story of growing up in Hucknall as a Queer teen.
The show is set in the early 2000s and follows Byron, who longs to escape the confines of small town life and gets swept up in the heady world of the city’s LGBTQ nightlife where androgyny, rebellion and intoxication rule. Through meeting a gang of ‘Fallen Divas’, as they’re called in the show, Byron eventually finds the freedom to live as a woman, but not without some significant bumps in the road along the way. LaQuarn gives a stunning performance of Lady Die, Byron’s loyal, glamorous and wild friend, and in this episode we discuss the show and its deeper themes.
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