![]() ![]() ![]() What’s the meaning of the ending of The Sandman ? I love the end of this season. ![]() We recently caught up with Park to discuss how they Twitter-stalked Neil Gaiman, the natural queerness of The Sandman and that mind-shattering ending that everyone is talking about. (And yes, the original Hedwig himself, John Cameron Mitchell, appears in The Sandman too. And so is Park, who’s had one-of-a-kind roles as Gren in Cowboy Bebopand the East German glam rocker lead in the stage adaptation of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Mason Alexander Park’s rapturous and captivating take on Desire inhabits this liminal space exactly as Gaiman set out in the original comic: The mystical nonbinary character is unbound by the confines of humankind’s compulsion to corral, restrict and categorize each other. In many ways, this imagined realm - as magical and otherworldly as it seems - is actually more like the real world, where cleanly defined identities, truths and morality rarely exist. In The Sandman, the realm of the Dreaming is a nebulous gray area, where good and evil are forever intertwined. “One of the first things Neil ever told me about his character was that he never played Desire as a villain,” says Mason Alexander Park, who plays the character in the show.
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