My worst moment: ‘They/Them’ star Theo Germaine and the anxiety of being an understudy
CHICAGO — Chicago actor Theo Germaine debuted on screen in the Ryan Murphy Netflix series “The Politician.” Then came their role on the Chicago comedy “Work in Progress” for Showtime. Now Germaine stars alongside Kevin Bacon in the slasher film “They/Them” for Peacock, set at a LGBTQ conversion camp.
The movie’s writer-director is one-time Chicago playwright John Logan and Germaine calls it an “experimental journey into a different subgenre, in the sense that it is a clear empowerment film but it’s also a horror film at the same time. It’s a scary movie that takes a lot of negative stereotypes and tropes pertaining to queer characters or queer-coded characters in horror and it flips them” by tweaking audience expectations. “We show the audience that queer characters are deserving of survival and humanity and being heroes in this genre.”
In it, Germaine plays a 17-year-old nonbinary person from a very strict
