{"id":223697,"date":"2026-02-18T20:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/dylan-mulvaney-is-finally-a-broadway-leading-lady-haters-be-damned\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:45:07","slug":"dylan-mulvaney-is-finally-a-broadway-leading-lady-haters-be-damned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/dylan-mulvaney-is-finally-a-broadway-leading-lady-haters-be-damned\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Mulvaney Is Finally a Broadway Leading Lady, Haters Be Damned"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Mulvaney weathered that storm\u2014and gained more notoriety and followers in the process. But when it was announced that she was stepping into the role of Anne Boleyn in December of 2025, she experienced deja vu, with conservatives criticizing her casting, calling it \u201cwoke\u201d and lamenting on social media that they \u201cmade Anne Boleyn trans.\u201d<\/a> There were so many negative comments that the Six<\/em> social media team made its X account private. \u201cThe protection, safety, and support of the Six<\/em> cast has always been, and remains, our highest priority,\u201d said Six<\/em> producers in a joint statement. \u201cWhile we welcome passionate engagement with the show, aggressive, threatening, or abusive behaviour is never acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of a sudden, the far right started attacking me and the show,\u201d Mulvaney says, sipping her cocktail. \u201cAnd I\u2019m like, since when have you ever cared about Broadway?<\/em> They don\u2019t care. They would have never gone to see this, and if they had, they would hate it even if I wasn\u2019t in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s arguably more ridiculous than Beergate, this go round, Mulvaney doesn\u2019t feel as lonely as the first time the pitchforks were coming her way. \u201cWhen I think about Beergate, I felt pretty isolated as far as not having a lot of support,\u201d Mulvaney says. (For what it\u2019s worth, she hasn\u2019t worked with the beverage brand since the kerfuffle.) But with Six,<\/em> she feels more supported. \u201cThe producers are on my side. My cast is checking in on me. I think that\u2019s where I\u2019m like, Oh my God, I\u2019m not actually alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also can\u2019t help but notice some \u201cweird parallels\u201d between herself and Anne Boleyn, who was beheaded for treason after being caught having an affair. In the show, Mulvaney sings the showstopping number \u201cDon\u2019t Lose Ur Head\u201d (get it?), which chronicles the series of unfortunate events of Boleyn\u2019s untimely demise with the repeated refrain: \u201cSorry, not sorry about what I said. I\u2019m just trying to have some fun. Don\u2019t worry, don\u2019t worry, don\u2019t lose your head. I didn\u2019t mean to hurt anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Boleyn before her, Mulvaney is a girl who incurs the wrath of the masses by simply living her life. \u201cThere\u2019s all these extremists in the world who see me as this horrible, problematic woman. I think me and Anne just wanted to have a voice,\u201d says Mulvaney. \u201cWe were so passionate about feeling seen and heard\u2014that we have the right to have an opinion and to celebrate ourselves. Even when you hear about Anne Boleyn today, it\u2019s often in a very negative light\u2014that she was this promiscuous woman. If you actually look back at the historical accuracy, she was very unproblematic and did all these great things for the world, but people don\u2019t hold onto that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mulvaney is aware that the bigots and haters are out there\u2014she sees them on her phone every day. But when it comes to her day-to-day life, she feels protected by \u201cthe bubbles that I exist in\u201d as a professional theater performer in New York. Still, she wonders: \u201cWhere are they? I got to tell you, it was pretty rough the past two years,\u201d she admits. \u201cIt does freak me out when I go into Trader Joe\u2019s, and I\u2019m like, Oh, does my cashier hate me or think that I\u2019m not a woman?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Mulvaney weathered that storm\u2014and gained more notoriety and followers in the process. But when it was announced that she was stepping into the role of Anne Boleyn in December of 2025, she experienced deja vu, with conservatives criticizing her casting, calling it \u201cwoke\u201d and lamenting on social media that they \u201cmade Anne Boleyn trans.\u201d There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2170,944,3593,1569,790,1021,10454],"class_list":{"0":"post-223697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-broadway","9":"tag-culture","10":"tag-lgbtq","11":"tag-qa","12":"tag-theater","13":"tag-tiktok","14":"tag-transgender-rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}