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Dylan Mulvaney is responding after backlash to being forged as Anne Boleyn, the second spouse of King Henry VIII, in Broadway’s “Six the Musical.” The transgender activist known as the chance a “miracle,” as backlash over the casting led the present to lock down its social media.
The musical has been marketed as a feminist-pop celebration of girls’s historical past and “twenty first century lady energy.” Mulvaney’s casting sparked debate on-line, with critics arguing the women-centered manufacturing sidelined feminine performers by casting the influencer as Anne Boleyn.
The backlash grew intense sufficient to immediate the present to limit its social media presence. The manufacturing locked its X account, making it inaccessible to non-followers, and disabled feedback on Instagram posts asserting Mulvaney’s casting.
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Mulvaney is ready to play Anne Boleyn within the musical “Six,” a call that has sparked debate following the Bud Mild controversy. (Christopher Polk/Selection through Getty Pictures; Robert Alexander/Getty Pictures)
Mulvaney addressed the controversy as a part of her “Days of Girlhood” video collection on social media, which paperwork her gender transition.
“Being a trans individual in 2026 when this world is working towards us in what seems like each manner,” Mulvaney stated in a minutes-long video message posted on-line.
“For me to have the ability to step out onto a Broadway stage as Anne Boleyn and carry out an iconic historic character’s position in a present that’s so rooted in celebrating femininity, I feel that is a miracle,” she added, noting Monday was the primary rehearsal for the present.
Mulvaney additionally acknowledged the “privilege” that helped safe the position and briefly referenced the Bud Light controversy that made her a nationwide determine. In April 2023, Mulvaney posted movies displaying that Bud Mild despatched her a pack of beer that includes her face.
In January 2024, FOX Enterprise reported that Bud Light sales fell almost 30% within the months following the marketing campaign. The backlash grew to become one of the vital outstanding company tradition clashes in recent times, with Bud Mild in the end dropping its place as America’s top-selling beer.
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A screenshot reveals the “Six the Musical” X social media web page amid backlash over Dylan Mulvaney’s casting as Anne Boleyn, which led the manufacturing to lock its social media accounts. (Screenshot/X)
“If I needed to go viral and discover myself in a far-right media firestorm and spend a few years and lots of tears questioning why that was occurring and attempting desperately to get again to what I as soon as beloved, which was theater, I might do it over again if it meant that I obtained to be on stage,” Mulvaney added.
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Supporters of the casting have argued that the musical was by no means meant to be traditionally correct, accusing critics of transphobia. Mulvaney is scheduled to start performances on Feb. 16 on the Lena Horne Theatre in New York City.
