SCRAPPY LITTLE SOMEBODY

“I’M JUST A scrappy little bitch,” Ryan O’Connell says. The creator and star of Special, the Netflix comedy about a gay, disabled 20-something, admits he had to push hard to get the project that centers marginalized people off the ground in Hollywood.

“Notice that I did not say ‘scrappy little ,’” O’Connell jokes, invoking the title of Anna Kendrick’s memoir. He considers Kendrick a “queen,” but says, “God knows I don’t want to be associated with that. My drug of choice is proving people wrong.”