THE GIFTED: Emma Dumont and Sean Teale in the “boXed In” airing Monday, Oct.
In sacrificing that, Lorna Dane becomes even more of a living breathing human being. Emma Dumont wants us to know that so fiercely she surrenders her comfort and emotional armor in order for us to see what its like for people who have it worse than we do. Every week, we get to see her live in her pain. As the audience, we get to experience Emma struggling in a world that discriminates and judges. What we are privy to in Emma Dumont’s portrayal of Polaris is nothing short of lucky. However, after discussing her history in more detail, Emma felt like an outcast growing up too. Emma’s commitment to understanding something she says she hasn’t experienced makes her goal even nobler. Referring to herself as a privileged white girl, she states her plight.Įmma Dumont’s goal is for people to understand how closely the discrimination and oppression her character experiences in THE GIFTED is real for too many people. Emma doesn’t hold any punches when it comes to expressing her fear that THE GIFTED too closely resembles life under the Trump Administration for minorities. Emma Dumont’s humility and sense of self appear to allow her to create art on network television.
Hollywood too often stinks of bullshit and huge egos. Emma certainly wasn’t acting, and that didn’t take anything away from the experience. I bore witness to art in its purest form - an artist sitting in their truth with their need overlapping their character’s need. Emma Dumont committed herself so intensely to the role of Lorna Dane that differences between them ceased to exist. However, experiencing this felt so different than simply knowing it. We gave it lip service several times in the interview. Just when I thought things couldn’t get more awesome, something profound happened. Talking with Emma felt so natural, like talking with any number of my good female friends. I often caught myself talking too much during the interview. Cr: Eliza Morse/FOX Emma Dumont, the Artist Not too long into the conversation, I realized Emma was as versed, if not more, in all the comics featuring Polaris we read, every comic book reader’s dream when it comes to how they want actors to approach their favorite characters! THE GIFTED: Emma Dumont in the “got your siX” episode of THE GIFTED airing Monday, Nov. Before our interview started, I meant to ask if Emma had read any comics with Polaris in them. I, personally, re-read over 200 issues in the months preceding the podcast. Recently, ComicsVerse conducted a two-hour podcast all about Lorna Dane (aka Polaris). In the case of Emma Dumont, nothing could be further from the truth. On occasion, cause exists when an actor’s disdain for portraying a comic book character is obvious.
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In the past, comic book fans criticized movie counterparts from their favorite comics harshly. It somehow managed to seep its way into comic book culture, a medium sprung out of oppression. We’re all too aware the national conversation has descended into the gutter. Once, a friend described comic book fandom as similar to the NRA. Emma Dumont Researched the out of Lorna Dane! This Emma Dumont interview granted me that wish, a wish I never fathomed would become reality. For more than thirty years, I imagined what the experience of meeting Lorna Dane might feel like. Unfortunately for some, they experience these downturns a lot more than most. We have all experienced it one time or another. Despite her difficult journey, at the core of Lorna Dane’s personality lies the naked struggle for a human being to survive, to persevere and thrive. She persevered through witnessing a genocide, her fiance abandoning her at the altar, being possessed by a psychic vampire, the list goes on and on. Polaris (aka Lorna Dane) almost instantly earned a spot on my favorites list. I picked up my first X-Men comic by the time I turned seven years old. I didn’t even expect to hear it when I spoke with Emma Dumont who plays Polaris (aka Lorna Dane) on Fox’s THE GIFTED. “I am Polaris.” Words I never expected to hear my whole life.