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Katy O'Brian

(1989) Actor

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Katy O'Brian talks about being labeled queer‑coded on screen and getting backlash. She wants every character to feel three‑dimensional and uses acting as an escape to explore new worlds. She also mentions how figure competitions boosted her confidence and how unfair it is when people judge others by skin colour or sexuality.

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Katy O'Brian is an actor.

Quick Facts About Katy O'Brian

Born: February 12, 1989
Profession: Actor

About Katy O'Brian

Katy M. O'Brian is an American actress known for playing Jackie in Love Lies Bleeding, Elia Kane in The Mandalorian, George in Z Nation, and Major Sara Grey in The CW’s series Black.

Quotes by Katy O'Brian

I've always had a lot of muscle and continue to maintain that.

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I love seeing people in their element when they're excited.

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As an actor, you have to go with the flow.

Actor

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I have only brothers, and it's a lot of tough love.

Brother

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I don't take pictures of myself.

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I grew up with 'Xena: Warrior Princess,' one of my icons.

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The '80s is such a big and fun and wild time.

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As a kid, I was never like, 'I'm going to be a cop.'

Cop

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When stuff goes to space, that's where it loses me, which is funny.

Funny

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It's important that people don't judge bodies just based off how they look.

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Eighties bodybuilding was the time for bodybuilding. It was so freakish and unheard of for a woman to do that then.

Bodybuilding

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A lot of martial artists that I know, a lot of officers that I know, they all are really into comic book…

Art

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I did 'Ant-Man' and 'The Mandalorian.' They came out back to back and then I didn't book anything for months.

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I would probably want to be a fighter, which would be really scary and I'd be bad at it, but it'd be…

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You really want to make everybody as three-dimensional as possible.

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David Dastmalchian's hilarious, William Jackson Harper is hilarious, amazing.

Amazing

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I tend to be attracted to those old, rusty barbell, small, intimate gyms. You get to know everybody, and you get to…

Barbell

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There's a science to having your skin as tight to the muscle as it can be, so you can see striations and…

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I come from a really accepting family. But I don't know that the topic of queerness came up very often. It certainly…

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One of the things that I kind of find a little bit of solace in is the collective action community. Just making…

Action

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The martial arts: I was bullied when I was in kindergarten, so my dad signed me up when I was 5. It…

Art

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You know, there's a lot of discourse of, like, can queer people play villains? Like, are we there yet? And I think…

Character

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Here's the thing, physics was never my strong suit. It's the sole reason I didn't major in neuroscience. I had to do…

Neuroscience

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Genetics play a huge part in just how big you can get it in general for everybody, but it's something that could…

Genetics

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I think most of the movies, I have very little screen time, actually. So, it was like encouraging slash discouraging kind of…

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It wasn't until college when I saw someone who was very androgynous for the first time where I had this, aha moment…

Aha moment

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When I got my diagnosis, the first thing I did was look up actors and martial artists who had Crohn's. I needed…

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I feel like unless you've lived under a rock, you know who Kristen Stewart is, so I knew who she was. In…

Diva

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For the longest time, if you were out and queer, you couldn't get roles. I think it's important to allow opportunities for…

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In this job, what do they say? It's not survival, it's thrival jobs, right? It's having something that you can do that…

Acting

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If I had come in maybe in my early 20s or something, I might have given it a shot. But then I…

Acting

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So far, every set that I've worked on in 'Star Wars' or Marvel has been very welcoming. They've made everything very easy.…

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I do not envy the ADs. I don't envy the producers.

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Horror was my go-to with my friends all the time. I was just so fascinated by it.

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I, unfortunately, talk to everyone on the crew and probably bother them while they're trying to do their jobs.

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I found figure competitions... I got stronger. I was very confident with how I looked. It felt great.

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Attention to detail is something that I strive to remind myself to do. It matters so deeply.

Attention

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Hollywood has made a big push to be more supportive of female writers and directors.

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Something I tried to train myself out of is being too tight because I can be a kind of a tense person.

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Yeah, I always get nervous with any type of intimacy because I never want to make someone uncomfortable.

Intimacy

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