Nick Dumont is ready to talk about his coming out journey after announcing they are non-binary trans masculine earlier this month.
The Oppenheimer actor, who clarified that they now use they/them pronouns, spoke about how “rewarding” it was to come out in a statement to Outside.
Dumont, who had small roles in the Paul Thomas Anderson films Inherent Vice and Licorice Pizza, also shared that they would continue to use their birth name, Emma Dumont, for work projects, but plan to use Nick Dumont in their personal life.
‘Coming out as trans has been one of the longest challenges I have faced in life. It has also been the most rewarding by far,” they stated.
Dumont went on to describe how they gradually came to understand their gender over the years.
‘I lived in an authoritarian household for many decades where it was not safe to be at home myself. “I knew that at 13/14 I wasn’t ‘like other girls’, I knew I liked girls and I knew I didn’t feel good about my body,” they continued.
Oppenheimer actor Nick Dumont, who still goes by Emma Dumont in professional projects, has spoken out publicly after coming out as non-binary trans masculine earlier this month.
The film and television actor described a moment of gender euphoria they experienced about a decade earlier when they played a transgender character.
“Around 19, I was cast as a trans teen (assigned female at birth) in a television pilot,” they explained. ‘I looked at myself in my trailer wearing basketball shorts, a bandage around my chest and thought, “Damn, I look good!”
“A decade later, I found a safe community and discovered I was non-binary,” they continued. “Now I’m out, I have a life I could only have dreamed of as a child and I still get to play women at work.”
Dumont proudly declared: ‘I am trans. I love being trans. We are here. We’ve always been here.’
They added that they were “grateful” to live in the present and to have access to “safe and supportive spaces” and to be able to “go to the Los Angeles LGBT Center and receive medical care without fear.”
“That hasn’t been the experience that many have had,” Dumont noted, before sharing his “gratitude” for the “brave queer people” who came before them.
They concluded by revealing that they had originally planned to take more time before sharing their gender identity with the world.
“I didn’t think I would come out to everyone so soon, but I promised myself that if anyone asked me, I would share it,” they said. “Someone asked and I shared it… because I’m proud.”
Dumont said they grew up in an “authoritarian home” where they couldn’t express themselves properly. They described a feeling of gender euphoria after playing a transgender character a decade ago.
“A decade later, I found a safe community and discovered I was non-binary,” they continued, adding that they were grateful to be able to receive the medical care they needed at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
Dumont appears to have signaled his coming out by putting his new name and pronouns on his Instagram account.
Dumont’s most notable project to date has been the Oscar-winning biographical drama Oppenheimer (pictured, in which she played Jackie Oppenheimer, the sister-in-law of the title character, the nuclear physicist and “father of the atomic bomb”). J. Robert Oppenheimer
Dumont has also worked extensively in television. They were a series regular on the X-Men spin-off series The Gifted (pictured), which aired from 2017 to 2019.
Dumont’s latest photos on social media have shown a new, more androgynous look with masculine clothing and shorter hair compared to her previous red carpet looks; photographed in 2018 in Sanya, Hainan province of China.
Dumont appears to have first signaled his coming out by changing his Instagram name and adding pronouns, although his username still includes the name they plan to use professionally.
They also showed off a newer, more androgynous look with shorter, tousled hair in their profile photo, although it’s unclear when that changed.
Dumont’s most notable project to date has been the Oscar-winning biographical drama Oppenheimer, in which she played Jackie Oppenheimer, the sister-in-law of the title character, nuclear physicist and “father of the atomic bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer.
However, that was a small role and Dumont has had bigger roles in smaller films, such as the thriller What Lies Ahead, in which he co-starred with Rumer Willis.
Dumont has also worked extensively in television. They were a series regular on the X-Men spin-off series The Gifted, which aired from 2017 to 2019, and appeared in the vast majority of the detective series Aquarius, starring David Duchovny, in 2015 and 2016.