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Oct 17, 2018 · Leila (Desiree Akhavan), an Iranian-American based in London, has spent the whole of her twenties in relationships with women â?" most significantly with her long-term girlfriend and professional partner, Sadie (Maxine Peak).
- Anna Leszkiewicz
Jan 14, 2015 · A hit at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, Appropriate Behavior, which Akhavan wrote, directed, and stars in, explores the end of a relationship between Shirin (Akhavan) and her girlfriend...
Oct 10, 2018 · The show’s creator Akhavan identifies as bisexual IRL, however, Leila’s story isn’t her own. She explained: " It’s not autobiographical in its plot. I’ve never identified as a lesbian ...
In the show, Akhavan plays Leila, a gold-star lesbian who discovers that she is attracted to men and women after splitting up with her girlfriend Sadie (Maxine Peake). The show demystifies...
Feb 7, 2019 · In the third episode of The Bisexual, Desiree Akhavan’s comedy-drama for Channel 4 and Hulu, the titular bisexual, Leila (played by Akhavan) is having a familiar kind of crisis. At a nitrous oxide–fueled impromptu party in the London apartment Leila shares with her new roommate, Gabe (Brian Gleeson), she dances giddily with the guy she’s ...
- Buzzfeed News Reporter
Nov 13, 2018 · Akhavan plays Leila, an Iranian-American woman living in London who has been with her girlfriend and business partner Sadie (Maxine Peake) for 10 years. When Sadie proposes, Leila balks and...
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Akhavan sighed, adding that American TV execs also proposed that the lead male character Gabe, played by Brian Gleeson, should have “a hotter girlfriend”.
