# @pinknews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DN8eRLzkcis
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-29T16:02:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** PinkNews (@pinknews) — https://gondola.cc/pinknews

## Caption

Two-time RuPaul’s Drag Race winner and Broadway superstar Jinkx Monsoon has shared the moving reason why she wants to play Mystique in a new X-Men project.

Speaking on Vulture’s Good One podcast, Jinkx Monsoon revealed that she wants to play the flame-haired blue babe because of how much the character resonates with transgender people.

Last year, Jinkx, who is currently starring in Cole Escola’s Tony Award-winning Broadway smash Oh, Mary!, revealed that she identifies as trans-femme, had undergone facial feminisation surgery, and uses she/her pronouns.

The actress asked Good One host Jesse David Fox whether she could “manifest something” before declaring her hope to one day play Mystique.

“Marvel has now regained the rights to X-Men. I think it would be a really cool idea to have a trans woman be Mystique,” she shared.

Marvel regained ownership of the X-Men franchise back in 2019, after Disney, which owns Marvel, acquired 21st Century Fox, which had previously owned the X-Men brand.

“She is my favourite Marvel character of all time and I relate to her so much and I think a lot of trans people do,” Jinkx continued.

“We think about how nice it would be to be able to just blend in and not have everyone pay attention to us if we don’t want to.”

The performer, who quietened her voice as she got evidently emotional, then added: “We also relate to the fact that she’s not accepted in her original form so she has to transition to even walk around people.

“I just texted my agent that I was like, ‘I don’t know what’s going on there, but please stop dropping my name!”

#JinkxMonsoon #XMen #Mystique #Marvel #MCU

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mcu, mystique, jinkxmonsoon, marvel, xmen

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