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"And MJ, the editor-in-chief of the magazine, saying, 'If people don't like it, they can go somewhere else, that's all I needed to hear.'" The Swimsuit Issue is representation on an international scale, showcasing the beauty of trans bodies in the pages of one of the publishing world's last true tentpoles. "No matter where I go, no matter what I do, no matter what room I go into, my community is there right with me," she says. Nice rack.' I wanted to have a message."Īs with everything she does, Bloom considered how the moment could be bigger than herself. "I didn't want to just be a beautiful girl with a beautiful body, that's just like, 'Oh, she's hot.
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"My dad had a subscription," she explains, "and it was the first place I actually saw beautiful Black women next to a beautiful white woman." Now, she had the chance to pay it forward. In a one-piece, posing in the sand, she could be a vessel for change. For Bloom, even the opportunity of a lifetime had to be more than just a centerfold. I immediately heard opera music in the background, like, You have arrived, you belong here. I got one person.' I was like, 'Who is it?' And he said, ' Sports Illustrated.'" She pauses for effect, her hands to her head. "My agent was like, 'I gotta tell you something.' I'm like, 'What?' He's like, 'Girl, nobody wants you. ( Valentina Sampaio only became the first trans model to appear in the issue in 2020.) Bloom was on set of a Levi's campaign when she got the call in December. Bloom, who is both Black and Filipina, marks that milestone once again in July's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. In 2017, she became the first trans woman of color to appear in Vogue India. Premiering Port Authority at Cannes was not the first nor the last time Bloom would make history. Her father met her mother while stationed in the Philippines.) (Like her character, Bloom is also a military brat. It's not lost on Bloom that both characters share so much DNA with her own life, and she worked closely with Lessovitz to craft Wye and infuse into her parts of herself. After spotting Bloom's Wye vogueing outside, the film blossoms into a love story set against the backdrop of their different worlds. Port Authority follows Paul ( Fionn Whitehead), a young drifer who hitches a bus to the titular station with no plans beyond that. We talked about the impulses of humanity and the intersections of how you meet people from different walks of life."Īnd then they said yes. "We just talked for an hour," Bloom says. A year later, Bloom was living in Italy when Port Authority's writer-director, Danielle Lessovitz, FaceTimed her. "I auditioned after they scouted me," she says, "and right away they said no." She sent in a second audition tape and then a third but the response remained no. In time, she found her way to the ballroom scene and the iconic House of Miyake-Mugler, becoming a Mother and making a name for herself in the face category.Ĭasting directors scouted Bloom at a ball in Philadelphia. At 17, she took the Greyhound from Chicago to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York, not knowing anyone in the city and with nowhere to stay.
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(Getty Images)Īs with most stars who seem to materialize overnight, Bloom has been, as she puts it, "out for a while." You just needed to know where to look. Leyna Bloom and the 'Port Authority' cast in Cannes.