Jena Malone Opens Up About Her Journey in Coming Out as Pansexual

Jena Malone is reflecting on coming out as pansexual in a new interview.

The former Hunger Games star shared her story first in an Instagram post with her fans.

“I guess it felt like I was a heterosexual man in a woman’s body. I visualized his desires and placed them on to me. But this, was never the whole of the story that was meant for me,” the 37-year-old actor wrote. “So I’ve been learning a new way to tell it.

Jena added, “Finding words that feel more right to explore in my telling. Pansexuality. Sapiosexuality. Polyamory. A fuller spectrum of understanding that my story is demanding of me.”

In a new interview with THR, Jena opened up more about sharing her journey with her followers.

“I’ve been thinking about it for a while,” Jena told the trade paper. “The sexual journey is so beautiful. I mean, all of the identity journeys are so cool.”

She added that while she is a “little bit late to the game in being able to have less shame,” she has “been loving the process of learning more about myself and others through different terms that open windows, those windows then turns into doors and then I arrive at a place to find all this cool stuff out there.”

Jena continued, “It’s a part of humanity now to have all these ceremonies of exclamation around coming out and renouncing [an identity] and celebrating that space for yourself. It’s a really sweet, human experience. I love getting to learn more about myself no matter the age or my experience.”

Yawn. Just say your bisexual and move along toots

I have recently discovered I am mentally ill. I ask that you put up with my nonsense, even though my career is going nowhere.

Dear gods, talk about overthinking what turns you on. Maybe do less of that and focus more on landing a decent acting gig?

So she came out as an attention starved whore?

Pansexual icks me out a bit. It's basically saying that you can be attracted to anyone/anything and not just adult males and females. My mind goes to 'what else are you into - children, animals?'

She looks great, so there’s that.

oh my god, she wants to have sex with my pans

What I picture when someone says "pansexual"

[quote] Pansexuality. Sapiosexuality. Polyamory

So essentially a Hollywood actress feels entitled to our applause for admitting she is a slut. Big deal.

I always thought "Sapiosexuality" meant someone fucked trees

Well, that’s an interesting label. You don’t really see that one in the afternoon, except for woke girls.

Cut her some slack she was 1/2 raised by Julia.

Heterosexual men don't have to be stereotyped.

She's not a heterosexual man just because she didn't ooze stereotypical feminity.

It's ok for people to be themselves without having to align into the mold of some stereotype.

If you really want to capture their attention, I have a few suggestions for you.

We really need to know this? Jesus.

Child actress, now adult, wants work, claims to be bisexual. Yaaaawn

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

“Her followers,” is she running a cult?

She was in some good 2000s indie films when young. I like her. Isn't every other woman is bi/pan?

Semi Lovato has to up her A-game now.

Did she peak with Contact?

Jena Malone, Kristin Stewart, two child actresses who turned to muffdiving after working with Jodie. Abigail Breslin will be next.

Can we make a new sexuality? Tiresomesexual.

And, technically, isn't being pansexual anti-trans because it is by definition saying that trannies aren't really men and women since they are the "other" that a pan person would be attracted to? Woke wars commence!

She should fly to Never Never Land and marry the pirate played by Glen Close.

[quote]Finding words that feel more right to explore in my telling. Pansexuality. Sapiosexuality. Polyamory. A fuller spectrum of understanding that my story is demanding of me.

Someone needs to tap her on the cleavage with a pastry fork and tell her there'll be fog by teatime.

I have always liked Jena because she is one of the few in Hollywood who truly came from nothing. Her mom was true freewheeling Reno white trash who raised her kids with no stability, living in motels and out of their car. Jena is talented and a great actress, but she seems very unconventional and hippie-dippy to the extreme, so her "pansexual revelation" doesn't surprise me.

Maybe she'll be a cat next week. That seems to be trending.

Fuck that word “journey”

People! I have an announcement to make!! I am COMING OUT as [insert buzzword du jour here]!!!

So thirsty, so boring. If they 'come out' as something so ridiculous, do they 'go back' when they've moved on to the next trend? Or will that be another attention-seeking opportunity?

(This reminds me of when Hilary Baldwin tried to make being a 'multi' happen? lmao)

I actually loved her in some movie called Cheaters or something about a high school quiz team. She was so good in that.

But this, I think she’s been traumatized by Bastard out of Carolina.

Another White frau thinks she's extra special. Was she a Harvey girl? I make that assumption based on her involvement with the Hunger Games.

I will forever love her for her role in "Saved", where she plays a teenage Jesus freak who fucks her gay boyfriend in a misguided attempt to help him become straight, becomes pregnant, and ends up the pariah of her Christian high school (with a deliciously cunty Mandy Moore spearheading her takedown). It's an extremely well-done satire and is also very funny.

R33 Weinstein had no involvement in The Hunger Games movies, despite his notorious connection to Jennifer Lawrence. Those movies were by far the most mainstream thing Malone has done—her filmography mostly consists of indie flicks. I also don't see her being enough of a careerist to get involved with someone like him.

[quote] “It felt like I was a heterosexual man in a woman’s body. I visualized his desires and placed them on to me...”

Most women reach and hit up against this psychological barrier at some point. It’s called, ‘waking up and realising the very tangible and codified horror that you’re one of an objectified class’.

As all around us, male predation and hatred and violent entitlement ever grows and reaches fever pitch, females ever more desperately attempt to identify out of their class in any way possible. With the straight women, this is a tricky tightrope, as they want to remain desirable to men but without submitting to the male demand that they act as or become desire objects or sexual pets.

This is why groups such as pan/demisexual, TIF, NB and the like spring up—all rather limp and pathetic and futile ways to nudge men into considering that women want and need a very different working model of sexual experience. And men won’t listen to that, of course, because as far as they’re concerned under hypercapitalistic p0rnsick culture, pussy is free real estate.

So Jena has my sympathy. She’s an idiot, but she has my sympathy.

Frau pontificating at R37.

No one wants to read your navel-gazing blog post. Just enjoy dick if that's what you like, no need to theorise it.

I read the title as Jenna Maroney which is fitting because this all seems very Jenna Maroney. Why can't people just say they're bisexual? Pansexual sounds like a weirdo who is attracted to anything including livestock and objects.

R38 riiiight. Except I don’t like dick. And am not a Frau, either. What I “identify as” to put in Jena’s terms is a lesbian with a brain, and I know how much people (men) hate that.

OP is the one who wanted to discuss why Malone has come out with statement, so I gave the likeliest and most logical reason. Like it or don’t, read it or don’t, kys or don’t. Makes me no never mind.

R40 gay men don’t hate lesbians—in fact, we don’t think of you at all

R41 well, the DL archives for one thing repudiate your claim. Countless hits, threads and replies speaking endlessly about lesbians and often in derisive ways.

But I don’t care to debate what is factual with a superiority-complexed fantasist, so, as you fucking were.

She sounds dumb but it's nice that she can say this now and earn some social media plaudits for it. If she'd done it as a teen there would've been faux concern on the right since she was raised by two moms.

So many buzzwords just to tell us that she'll fuck anything and she needs us to praise her for it.

[Quote]She added that while she is a “little bit late to the game in being able to have less shame,”

Such a phony. She's a Millennial female who's passed her life working in a liberal industry, filming -- the chances she feels any amount of shame over supposedly not being heterosexual are close to zero. Her self-absorbed prattling in fact makes her sound very content with herself.

lol, r8

Let your Gay, Straight, Bi, Asexual, Poly, Trolly, Pan, Sapio, Furry, George, Paul, Ringo, or John? Freak or Conventional flag fly.

I can note it, as I do here, or ignore it.

But it really is true. White, blonde women seem to be able to do it and not have to worry about their jobs, position or status. For them, it's just another feature, not a bug.

Wake me when another privileged type, say, a current NFL Superstar, wants me to know this same thing and announces it to the world.

Fuck who you want, just shut up about it because no-one cares.

To this day I’ve never seen or read Bastard Out of Carolina because I know it will destroy me, but I hope someday I have the fortitude to experience both, especially her performance.

I love her small, but important role in Donnie Darko, that little wave to Mary MacDonnell at the end is the beating heart of the whole movie.

This thread reminds me--it's almost time for my traditional annual September re-watch of Kevin Costner's passion-project HATFIELDS & McCOYS.

Being a country person and someone formerly of a large feuding family myself, it's my favourite historical Western drama series/movie that I've seen, and has been since it came out ten years ago. Must have seen it close on a dozen times all the way through, and still I just never get sick of watching it; every time September rolls around and I sit down to see it again, there's always some detail I've missed or overlooked or haven't appreciated.

History Channel bought and produced it, and they clearly poured production value of high quality into getting as much as they could accurate in terms of continuity and look. The feel of it all, from the music (by Costner and his band New West) to the cinematography to the setting to the plot, is moody, autumnal, and so deeply backwoods, that it always feels fitting for a September in the sticks.

Jena Malone gave a magnificent performance, as the vengeful and malicious but courageous and defiant young woman Nancy McCoy, who marries the doomed idealist playboy Johnse Hatfield in order to avenge her jilted cousin Roseanna and her dead brothers & cousins, and ultimately to disintegrate the Hatfield family from the inside. Jena almost steals the entire series, though I must say that the luminous Mare Winningham and the late Bill Pullman (who played family elders Sally & Ran'l McCoy, respectively) gave masterclass turns.

^^^ Is this streaming on a major platform anywhere?

Jena was fantastic as Lydia in the 2005 "Pride and Prejudice" adaptation. I think she was the only Yankee in the cast, but she did a stellar job with the British accent.

R28, she shows why most kids need a stable upbringing.

Another attention whore Zzzzzz. This person isn't getting enough attention so she comes out as pansexual. It's laughable. I bet this person has never been in a same sex relationship and never will.

R7 She has an Ellen Page forehead.

R50 not sure if it's streaming or where, sorry! Until a few years ago, I was watching from an old DVD boxset I had, which I unfortunately lost in a move just before COVID. The last few times I've just found somewhat dubious unofficial streams to watch it on, though I can't recommend you do that for obvious reasons.

Despite her label she will one day be in a her marriage like Nico Tortorella.

Had no idea that she writes songs and has a band. They're pretty good.

Her shorter froofier blonde-highlighted hair c.2014 was an attractive ook for her.

Sexuality-soup nonsense aside, she's an interesting woman, to watch and to listen to and to look at. Moreso than the current crop of starlets.

This ID-politics publicity-stunt revelation is a bit of a letdown, as I'd assumed she was somewhat cooler than that, or above it. Guess actors are all the same.

WTF is pansexual?? do they fuck kids and animals as well?!

Hasn't Jena played gay a few times? I can only think of the Neon Demon.

Bisexuals are so charmingly narcissistic, aren't they?

Most people assume women are bisexual. So coming out as bi or pan as a woman has little to no affect on anything. Bi women are basically treated as straight women if they're with male partners. Not the same with bisexual men who are always seen as gay even if with women.

I want to see a celebrity who is sincosexual which is five people having sex in a sink.

R64 don't give Ezra Miller any ideas

Straight males loves this shit- some chick who'll do anyone.

R59 she doesn't seem or sound like a man trapped inside a woman's body at all. She seems like a basic woman -WHICH THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH.

I have had it with people implying not acting like Barbie or a Kardashian, having some brains about you, or being attracted to women must mean that you're A MAN.

There are obviously real men attracted to men and I sick of the categorization of every fucking attraction people have trying to make it into something special when all there's nothing new about this sexuality and people have been fucking in orgy piles since before the fall of Rome.

YOU'RE NOT SPECIAL BECAUSE OF YOUR WORDPLAY!

[quote] I have had it with people implying not acting like Barbie or a Kardashian, having some brains about you, or being attracted to women must mean that you're A MAN.

As a lesbian of the granola and futch variety, I agree. If I like to read, eschew makeup, don't have implants, and roll my eyes rather than laugh dutifully when men try to be funny, that doesn't make me a bloke. Far from it. It makes me a normal thinking human woman done with the patriarchal shit.

DL in a nutshell: she should shut up about herself, and here are ten thousand words from me about who she really is!!!!!

I think she's a terrific actress, and I also think that we all should spend more time listening to people working through their shit, because otherwise we sound like sad tires stuck in mud shrieking our sad small thoughts on repeat

Is it just me or does Malone look like Sarah Paulson in that pic?

I am seissincosexual, R64.

It's much much more interesting that sincosexuality.

Literally six times more interesting. And it's even more Spanish-y.

(Follow me on insta and OnlyFans)

Jena Malone and Kirsten Dunst were my favorite young actresses in the late 90s-2010s.

This fatuous revelation is disappointing, as she was a great actress. Who came across as a smart but unpretentious person. Bummer!

Kirsten Dunst is still brilliant.

Why not just scream “I need attention!”?

R69 but it's not who she really is. It's bandwagon sexual classification which is no one's business really anyway and it's just what's popular now. It's not "who she is" when it's the same shit you hear all the time from people online.

I don't need to know her sexual journey to appreciate her as an actress.

Anyone have any gossip about who sexually assaulted her in the set of Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2? She just shared that in her instagram.

Yawn. Another exhausting narcissist trying to reinvent humanity. It’s all been done, weirdos. And no, you can’t change your gender. And yes you only get one. And being a whore is being a whore.

"And yes you only get one"

[quote]. “Finding words that feel more right to explore in my telling. Pansexuality. Sapiosexuality. Polyamory. A fuller spectrum of understanding that my story is demanding of me.”

I’m quite convinced that I have never heard a more pretentious statement, not in the gay era, not by any gen Z, not in the history of fraudom.

Can't sleep. Stomach ache from some food I had for dinner at a restaurant. Got up and start reading this and R8 and R11 made me burst out laughing.

Ow ow ow ow

I could not possibly be less interested in her "journey."

r60, they're just attention seeking bisexuals.

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