The Hunger Games’ Jena Malone comes out with a ‘sleepy little’ dance
“I feel like I’m a little bit late to the game in being able to have less shame,” Malone said.
Words: Emily Maskell; pictures: Lionsgate
Actor Jena Malone has come out as pansexual in an Instagram post that sees her perform an interpretative dance.
The 37-year-old Golden Globe-nominated actor, known from The Hunger Games and The Neon Demon, came out on Saturday (20 August).
“I guess it felt like I was a heterosexual man in a woman’s body,” Malone wrote on Instagram.
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“I visualized his desires and placed them on to me. But this, was never the whole of the story that was meant for me,” she added. “So I’ve been learning a new way to tell it. Using words to guide me not define me.”
Malone adds that she has more to learn about her sexuality and the words to label her exploration of self, she lists: “Pansexuality. Sapiosexuality. Polyamory.”
She continues: “A fuller spectrum of understanding that my story is demanding of me. And I’m honoring it today with this soft and sleepy little stretch of a dance. I love humans. So there’s that”.
“I was going to post this on [pansexual] awareness day but I’m a mom and I’m always a few months late for everything,” Malone concludes.
Opening up about her sexual identity, Malone stated: “I feel like I’m a little bit late to the game in being able to have less shame,” in conversation with The Hollywood Reporter.
She added: “I’ve been loving the process of learning more about myself and others through different terms that open windows, those windows then turn into doors and then I arrive at a place to find all this cool stuff out there.”
Malone notes that the ceremonial nature of coming out is a “really sweet, human experience,” one that has allowed her to get to know herself better.
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Furthermore, she outlines that her “really supportive family” has been there for her “whatever, however or whoever” she is.
“My sister is queer and I grew up with two moms who were lovers and then they split. My mom sort of became hetero again, mostly through an understanding of Christianity,” Malone explained.
“And then my god mom married her partner of 17 years now. So, I have three moms and my dad who has been a hetero man all his life. I have the whole spectrum,” she added. “It’s nice to be able to have these different types of conversations with everyone.”
Malone’s latest project is the upcoming film Adopting Audrey, directed by Zach Snyder.
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