Trans Actress Leyna Bloom Celebrates Love in Port Authority
Port Authority, which deals with both romantic love and chosen family love, was a perfect fit.“My lifestyle has always been wrapped around love … loving and caring relationships,” she says.The film, which opens in theaters today, deals with the love that blossoms between a Black transgender woman, Wye (Bloom), and a white cisgender man, Paul (Fionn Whitehead of Dunkirk), as well as the love of Wye’s ballroom family.
Written and directed by Danielle Lessovitz and counting Martin Scorsese among its executive producers, it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019, making Bloom the first trans actress of color to headline a film at the prestigious event; she’s African-American and Filipina.It’s one of several firsts on Bloom’s modeling and.
