Lydia West expressed a vow to tell more stories of marginalised communities as she accepted her Rising Star trophy at Glamour s Women Of The Year Awards.
The actress, 27, was named as the recipient of the Gamechanger Rising Star Award on Thursday, following her acclaimed turn as Jill Baxter in Channel 4 series It s A Sin.
And after appearing in the series, which follows a group of friends whose lives change amid the 1980s AIDS crisis, Lydia wants more communities who otherwise wouldn t have received mainstream coverage to get their moment in the spotlight.
Voice: Lydia West expressed a vow to tell more stories of marginalised communities as she accepted her Game Changer trophy at Glamour s Women Of The Year Awards on Thursday
It s a Sin Is a Teary Eyed History Lesson
March 5, 2021
Omari Douglas as Roscoe Babatunde, Lydia West as Jill Baxter, David Carlyle as Gregory Finch, Calum Scott Howells as Colin Morris-Jones, and Nathaniel Curtis as Ash Mukherjee.
Those of us starved for new, gay, HIV content to watch might find a gem in the British series
It’s a Sin, now streaming on HBO Max. With a title taken from the Pet Shop Boys’ 1987 hit song, the five-part drama takes place in 1980s gay London, right at the dawn of the AIDS crisis. The production is a huge hit in the UK, and it’s the first mainstream show in Britain featuring an HIV storyline. HBO Max hopes to have the same success here across the pond.
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The actress, 27, revealed in the podcast Table Manners on Wednesday that the exclamation was an in-joke between creator Russell T Davies, Jill Nalder and their friends, so it had to be perfect.