By BetteAndTinaForever

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B&TF: My first question is when Moira/Max was first introduced in season 3 there was an article that said that as soon as Moira changes into Max, the character will be gone. Were you surprised that the character was back in season 4 and actually got her own storyline? Daniela Sea: No, I wasn’t surprised. I don’t know why the paper said that but my understanding was that Max would become part of the fabric of the show. I think it’s important for trans visibility in the lesbian community to show, you know. It’s pretty realistic for nowadays that in the gay community we have all kinds of people. B&TF: I guess they were saying it because this show is about lesbians and you remember how Jenny said to Max in the beginning of the third season that now you’re a man who wants to date a girl, and I want to date girls, or something along those lines...

DS: I think it was important for them to have that scene where Jenny breaks with him and says I don’t want to be with you because I’m a lesbian. But this is how some people feel and ideally, in a show like ours, which is representing a community it needs to show the different conflicts when someone is a trans. I think we saw different types of reactions from the girls on the show, which is what it’s like in real life. That a lot of people are more accepting, you know, and there are some girls who are totally into those kind of guys.

B&TF: Well, you know in season 3 Max was involved with everybody and in season 4 you got your own storyline up until almost the end when you become involved with Alice’s Our Chart. In season 5, are you going to be interacting more with the girls or will you continue with your own story?

DS: A little of both, yeah.

B&TF: Well, since we can’t talk about season 5, let me ask you another question. Tell me how your acting career begin and was The L Word your first major project?

DS: My first acting experiences were in theater in school and then I did John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus. I did a couple of music videos as well from Sara Mitchell and then I got The L Word.

B&TF: Would you like your acting career to continue or would you like to stop at some point and do something else?

DS: I think I might focus on being a multi-faceted artist; I’ve been acting, I’ve been playing music in my band, I’ve been writing. So, I think I’ll always act just like when I was more dormant and I wasn’t actually pursuing it as much and so I think it’s something I’ll do the rest of my life. I’d like to do other things as well, like travel.

B&TF: And you’re still with Bitch and you do like doing music with her band, correct?

DS: Yeah, sometimes I play with her band and sometimes they play without me.

B&TF: If you hadn’t been chosen to be Moira/Max would you like to be any other character on the show? Not necessarily based on physical appearance but rather character-wise; who would you prefer to play?

DS: I don’t think I can answer that question; I’m too inside the story. I had never watched the story before I got this job so I really only know it from Max’s perspective. I guess I would want to be Pam Grier.

B&TF: Is Max going to be happier in this season?

DS: I think we’re slowly seeing him become more secure within himself which I think makes him happier.