Members of the film's team, including production designer Aidan Sugano, on the significance of the titular shape-shifter's shade of pink, subverting color stereotypes within the black-white binary, and how a change from the comic is reflected in the film's use of green.
In America, pink is a color that has spanned the gender spectrum at various points in history, having spent decades not being associated with any particular gender, before being ascribed in the 20th century first as a masculine and then, later, a feminine color.
“Growing up AFAB [assigned female at birth], everyone is always like a pink, pink, pink. As a kid, I was like, ‘I’m not like other girls. I hate pink. No pink for me.’ Then, when I was designing her, I wanted to reclaim pink in a way that I liked,” Stevenson, who wrote and illustrated the award-winning graphic novel. “It was one of those stereotypical tropes that I just wanted to turn on their head and make it something totally new.
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