Actress Hunter Schafer speaks to sold out CSUF student event

ASI President Lydia Kelley led the conversation with Schafer, asking her a series of questions regarding her career, life, and advocacy in the industry.

Schafer spoke on how she didn’t consider herself an activist for the community but rather used her art to challenge how the entertainment industry approached minority representation.

“Art is for creating conversation, and not everyone is going to love it,” Schafer said when asked about how she advocates for the LGBTQ+ community.

Schafer continued by saying that her representation as Jules on “Euphoria” opens the door for better representation in the transgender community within the entertainment industry.

“Obviously Jules has been a prevalent step in trans representation for television but there’s still not a lot of trans people in the productions and we’ve been in the midst of this movement for a while now,” Schafer said.

Shania Esho, fourth year psychology major at CSUF, said that while Schafer may not think she is an activist for the LGBTQ+ community, she still does a great job of representing a minority community in her art.

“I think she is an amazing actress, and she really represents, you know, a community that is seen as a minority and I think that is really important and really powerful as she plays a character in ‘Euphoria’ named Jules,” Shania said.

Natalya Rowe, second year art major at CSUF, said that Schafer sets a really great example for young people and the LGBTQ+ community in how advocacy can take many forms.

“I think she has done a lot of work for the LGBT community and for a lot of minorities and she’s setting forth a really great example for Gen Z,” Natalya said.

Schafer’s career and LGBTQ+ advocacy will continue with the young actress set to star in two more films later this year, “Cuckoo” and “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.”