E.R. Fightmaster on playing Grey's Anatomy's first non-binary doctor: "The writers are writing scripts that treat non-binary like it's casual"

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"Nonbinary is a thing that's just naturally respected," says Fightmaster, who auditioned via self-tape. "That makes me feel very good as an artist but also as a non-binary person myself. That identity isn't being talked about like something that needs to be negotiated. My identity is just there. It's just on screen." How much of the character was already written? Was Fightmaster able to insert your own experiences or shape the character to who you are? "If you watch the show long enough... you could watch it over three episodes and derive this but all of the characters have this incredible ability to go back and forth from being great at what they do and then also being sexy, fun people," they said. "When I read the sides, it was very easy for me to understand that this doctor was not just going to be reading medical terms. I needed to infuse a lot of chemistry and immediate interpersonal details into the script itself. The writing was already beautiful, but the writing was in a way I thought that it gave me the ability to add exactly who I am to the script."