Marvel Studios Actress Tessa Thompson, who stars as Valkyrie in the newly released blockbuster Thor: Love and Thunder , says she has inspired her fans to “come out.”
“I’ve had so many folks write me and say that they were able to come out or to talk to their family, which is a dream,” Thompson told Variety . The actress added that it has been “tremendous” to experience queer fans telling her, “Thank you, Tessa, for living your truth.”
Thompson, who came out as bisexual in 2018, also told the outlet normalizing “LGBTQIA characters” in entertainment will “allow them to exist in their humanity.”
“I think a part of really being able to normalize queer characters, LBGTQIA characters, is to allow them to exist in their humanity and that doesn’t always mean that they’re in love or in a partnership because plenty of us know that sometimes you’re not,” she said.“So, yeah, […]
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