I have that in my head, and just knowing that that could be taken away is so frightening,” “And it was legalized nationally, we had to get remarried. And when I got married, gay marriage wasn’t legal in Oregon, so we got married in Hawaii, like a civil union,” Ditto explained. “I’m 41, and I’ve been married, and I’ve been divorced. The visibility of an openly queer woman on a major network show set in a conservative state such as Texas, where there have been a number of attacks on LGBTQ rights, is particularly meaningful to Ditto, who has always openly embraced those parts of her identity but admits that she is scared of all that she could stand to lose. … Our text chains are hilarious, because we’d just go back and forth coming up with the sharpest lines for Gigi.” She is spontaneous and in the moment, while also being incredibly thoughtful and kind. “We did a Zoom with her and Trace together and the way they were interacting - giving each other crap, like real family - we just knew it was right. They’re both hilarious, bold, honest and have killer voices,” Hilfers wrote in an email. I think all of the parts that I’ve done have been for pretty much Southern women, and I know Southern women - these are my grandparents, my aunts.” I grew up going to the honky-tonks surrounded by music. I know this person,’” Ditto, who hails from a liberal family of nine in Arkansas, told NBC News in a recent video interview. The role is a dramatic departure for Ditto, who admitted that she had been seriously considering a career change and working in childcare when she received an auspicious audition in the summer of 2021 for, as she described it, “a plus-size, lesbian country singer.” Ditto, who auditioned four times before landing the part, said she related to the feeling of “being overlooked” and “suppressing” parts of one’s identity out of fear of being treated differently. But with her mother’s health declining, Gigi unwittingly finds herself in a battle with her older sister, Nicky (Anna Friel), and their family’s rivals to become the new “queen of country music.” Ditto plays Gigi, the youngest of Dottie and Albie’s three children, who, in spite of her musical talents, has always avoided the spotlight and felt like an outsider due to her weight and sexuality. But in “Monarch,” the soapy new Fox musical drama in which she stars opposite Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon and Grammy nominee Trace Adkins, Ditto has stepped into the worlds of acting and country music - an experience that one could describe as a baptism by fire.Ĭreated by Melissa London Hilfers, “Monarch” follows the Romans, America’s fictional first family of country music, who are left to defend their place atop the charts while contending with the imminent loss of their matriarch, Dottie Cantrell Roman (Sarandon), and the waning influence of their patriarch, Albie Roman (Adkins). As a multiplatinum recording artist and the frontwoman of the indie rock band Gossip, Beth Ditto knows a thing or two about the cutthroat nature of the music industry.
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