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AVAN: The industry really only seems to respect a film about your identity. Like, if I wanted to make a film about being a mixed brown guy who wants to be an artist and then make up some shit about how my brown father doesn’t want me to but my white mother does, I could get that movie made in 35 seconds. But the central reason they’re making that film is to commodify our bodies, and I refuse to do that. Ironically though, that’s [a big theme] of the movie, but I refuse to sell myself to a studio that way. HAYLEY: I always feel like that too. I want to be like, “Let me just be in the movie and be Black. Don’t make me being Black the movie.” So what I loved about this was that it was just me as Mouse, and Mouse could’ve been anyone. It wasn’t about my struggle as a female and all that shit. It was just like real life.

AVAN JOGIA & HAYLEY LAW for Paper Magazine (May 2023) — story by Sandra Song, photography by Sam Ramirez

Bein fat is good and normal and its hot and its morally neutral and its the best thing ever and it's just a way some people exist

Food is good and has no moral alignment and is awesome and is a way to express love and is just a thing we as organisms need

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