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Laverne Cox Hopes ‘Clean Slate’s “Multidimensional” Representation Counters Anti-Trans “Media Propaganda”
With a new wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation coming out of 2025, Laverne Cox is well aware of the cultural significance of her new show 'Clean Slate'.
In Clean Slate, Season 1 of which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, the actress plays a proud trans woman named Desiree who returns home to her estranged father Harry ( George Wallace) in Mobile, Alabama, after 17 years, telling Deadline they set the series in her actual hometown in attempt to “humanize Desiree” amid the ongoing battle for trans rights. GEORGE WALLACE: Well, I think the most important thing is — like, she’s from Alabama, I’m from Georgia, two different states, but same life, church, same parents, mom and dad in the house, which a lot of kids don’t have today. But then that needs to be paired with a political agenda from a Democratic party that just has not led, has not had any clear message, that they’ve just been asleep while the right wing has been very organized and strategic.
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