Independence Day: Resurgence opens by telling us all the positive, fascinating changes that have happened on Earth since the War of 1996-the United States has a beloved female president united against our common alien foe, all human-on-human war has ceased and, thanks to tech left behind by the alien invaders, humans now have the potential to travel the galaxy with unimaginable speed. It’s been twenty years since the first Independence Day came out, and, in the universe of the movie, it’s also been twenty years since Will Smith’s Captain Hiller kicked alien ass and saved humanity. But that would have required all the interesting moments that occurred conspicuously off-screen in this sequel to be given the focus they deserved, and what fun is focusing on plot and character development when you can just blow shit up?
Amidst the clunky exposition and embarrassing callbacks to the first film and disheartening one-liners delivered by Liam Hemsworth-who looks profoundly embarrassed and exhausted throughout-there may have even been a better movie than the first Independence Day. Laverne Cox (born May 29, 1972) is an American actress and LGBT advocate.There’s a good movie buried somewhere in Independence Day: Resurgence.
She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, becoming the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category, and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990. In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word, making her the first transgender woman to win the award. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on U.S.
SENIOR GAY MEN IN SUITS TUMBLR TVīroadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBS 's Doubt. Ĭox appeared as a contestant on the first season of VH1's reality show I Want to Work for Diddy, and co-produced and co-hosted the VH1 makeover television series TRANSform Me. In April 2014, Cox was honored by GLAAD with its Stephen F. Kolzak Award for her work as an advocate for the transgender community. In June 2014, Cox became the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine. Cox is the first transgender person to appear on the cover of a Cosmopolitan magazine, with her February 2018 cover on the South African edition.
She is also the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds. Ĭox was born in Mobile, Alabama, and was raised by a single mother and grandmother within the AME Zion church. She has an identical twin brother, M Lamar, who portrayed the pre- transitioning Sophia (as Marcus) in Orange Is the New Black.
She is a graduate of the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, Alabama, where she studied creative writing before switching to dance.Ĭox has stated that she attempted suicide at the age of 11, when she noticed that she had developed feelings for her male classmates and had been bullied for several years for not acting "the way someone assigned male at birth was supposed to act".