“I’m too old to change my pronouns, because I can barely remember my phone number.” “Someone went on my Wikipedia page and changed my pronouns to ‘they,'” the 59-year-old says with a boyish grin. Recently, he has added yet another hyphen: nonbinary. Building a cult-hero career on the shoulders of Hedwig -the redemptive tale of a man coerced into a botched gender-reassignment surgery-Mitchell has outperformed mere Hollywood hyphenates as a producer-director-filmmaker-playwright-screenwriter-actor-singer-podcaster-DJ. Carole, a series based on Exotic’s murder-for-hire plot against Carole Baskin, streaming now on Peacock.
Indeed, over the last 40 years, Mitchell has largely done exactly what he wanted, including currently bedazzling the small screen as Tiger King’s Joe Exotic in Joe vs. “I have never wanted to be told what to do in my life,” says the Tony Award-winning creator and star of the legendary gender-queer rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL AIN’T NOBODY’S BOTTOM.
