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Zoe Lister-Jones opened up about her sexuality whereas debuting her romance with filmmaker Sammi Cohen.
The Band Help actress, 41, shared the replace whereas chatting with The Hollywood Reporter on the Sunday, February 25, Movie Impartial Spirit Awards, which she attended with Cohen.
“I’m right here, I’m queer, I’ve some worry however I’m working by way of it,” Lister-Jones stated when requested about her plus-one.
She went on to reward the Spirit Awards’ gender-neutral performing classes.
“I’m so grateful to Movie Impartial for actually being pioneers in that space. All award exhibits ought to observe of their footsteps and make classes genderless,” the Life in Items alum stated. “I’m relationship a nonbinary particular person. I’m pals with so many nonbinary folks. And I feel that with out actually shifting the paradigm in a bigger manner, it’s closing numerous doorways for actually necessary voices.”
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Lister-Jones additionally took a second to gush about Cohen, who directed the 2023 movie You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.
“They’re an incredible filmmaker in their very own proper,” she stated.
Sammi Cohen. Albert L. Ortega/Getty Photographs
Lister-Jones was beforehand married to performing, writing and manufacturing companion Daryl Wein from 2013 to 2022. The pair’s movie collaborations embody 2009’s Breaking Upwards and 2012’s Lola Versus.
Lister-Jones filed for divorce in September 2022, citing “irreconcilable variations.” She beforehand opened up about being “out and in of an open relationship” with Wein, 40, throughout a September 2021 look on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast.
“It’s why I’ve a lot indigestion,” she joked, noting that she had a “always engaged” jealous muscle when Wein can be intimate with different folks.
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Throughout a joint New York Instances interview in 2012, Lister-Jones known as non-monogamy “scary territory,” whereas Wein stated, “I take the glass half full method in that there could be some potential to the idea.”
Lister-Jones shot again, “In fact you suppose that. You’re a person.”
Whereas the twosome’s marriage didn’t final, Lister-Jones instructed THR that she is “nonetheless very shut” with Wein.
“We made numerous movies collectively,” she added.
Previous to confirming her romance with Cohen, Lister-Jones dropped a touch about her sexuality in June 2023.
“Queer ultimatum #happypride,” she wrote by way of Instagram on the time alongside a photograph of her trying right into a fridge whereas sporting a cheeky bikini.
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Cohen, in the meantime, opened up about their popping out journey throughout a September 2023 look on the “Yenta!” podcast.
“It took me a very long time to return out, after which it took me a bit of bit longer to return out once more as nonbinary,” the director defined. “It’s been an extended, very, very sluggish, chill course of. … I solely by way of standup, like a 12 months and a half in the past, got here out as nonbinary out loud to folks. The primary time I stated it out loud I used to be doing standup.”
Cohen famous that the “levity” of performing comedy made the subject appear simpler to speak about.
“I stated it so nonchalantly,” they stated.
