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Actress and author Dylan Mulvaney has defiantly responded to fierce backlash after she was cast in the role of Anne Boleyn in Broadway musical Six. On 16 January, it was announced that Dylan Mulvaney, 29, would be taking on the role of Henry VIII’s second wife Anne Boleyn in Six. The stage show is a modern retelling of the lives of the king’s six wives told via a pop concert. Swiftly after the musical theatre star’s involvement was revealed, she was targeted by anti-trans trolls who raged that the role of a female character had been given to a trans woman. Some fumed about the historical inaccuracy of casting a trans woman as Anne Boleyn, despite musical Six also depicting the six wives of Henry VIII as forming a pop band, which is not believed to have occurred in real life. In Six, the lead characters are also noted as having been inspired by pop icons including Beyoncé, Lily Allen and Britney Spears. It is not believed that Anne Boleyn, born at the turn of the 16th century, was actually inspired by said pop stars. #dylanmulvaney #sixthemusicalcosplay #transwoman #broadway #anneboleyn