Cynthia is one of GQ ’s Men of the Year cover stars, which the magazine doesn’t really hang a bell on — I like that — but there is a line in the profile , almost lost at the end there, about how she likes to take roles that subvert expectations, such as when she played Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar this summer at the Hollywood Bowl, and a forthcoming theatrical event where she’ll play all 23 parts in a version of Dracula . Her take:

“I think inevitably, because I’m in this body with this skin, in this time, everything I do will be political. I’ve been told so many times that I pick controversial roles, and I’m like, ‘Why? Why are the roles I pick controversial?’ It’s not like I set out to go, ‘Oh, what’s controversial in that?’ I just pick a thing that I feel like I want

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