'Sense & Sensibility' Director Defends Non-Binary Actor Eliot Sumner's Casting as Mr. Palmer

Getty Eliot Sumner plays the role of Mr. Palmer in the new adaptation of Sense and Sensibility and the film's director is defending the choice to have a non-binary actor in the role. The 36-year-old actor uses they/them pronouns and is the child of Sting and Trudie Styler. Eliot said in a 2015 interview that they don't believe in gender "labels." Eliot Sumner with famous parents Sting and Trudie Styler in 2004 "I think forever I was trying to figure out maybe . . . what I am. But I don't think anyone should feel pressured to have any kind of label or tag on them," they told The . . .