Cara Delevingne on 'Carnival Row': 'I'm a Pansexual Faerie'

Amidst the many premieres at Comic-Con this weekend, we also got two new trailers for the upcoming Amazon fantasy series Carnival Row.

The show stars Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne as star-crossed interspecies lovers in a world where humans have destroyed the homeland of faeries, centaurs, and various other fantastical creatures, forcing them into a city called The Burg, where they are mistreated and cast aside.

Bloom plays a human character named Philo, who is sent into The Burg to investigate a string of murders.

Carnival Row has been in limbo for many years and in many forms, finally landing at Amazon as a series in 2017. Its 2019 release is timely, as the show appears to be serving as an allegory for the immigration debate currently going on in the US.

“Part of that world is a discussion…about racism and sexism and classism and spiritualism, and we kind of cover it all and we look at all the different ways you can differentiate the people and creatures in society, and it makes for a very layered complex show,” said executive producer Marc Guggenheim.

And though the story revolves around the love story between Philo and Delevingne’s Vignette, a faerie, Cara was quick to clarify her character’s sexuality.

“I’m a pansexual faerie,” she told Variety.

“All faeries generally are,” she said. “They don’t see gender. It’s all about who they are and their hearts. A lot of the things that weren’t written in the script, we made them so. Obviously, I didn’t say ‘I want to be a pansexual faerie,’ but it made sense that all faeries kind of just love who they love.”

Carnival Row premieres on Amazon Prime on August 30.