Like Something Ripped Out of a Fanfic, Maya Hawke and Victoria Pedretti Are Gay Together in The Non-Actor

If you’re sapphic and love cinema, this is not a drill: Maya Hawke and Victoria Pedretti starred in a steamy sapphic short film together and it’ll soon be available for streaming.The Non-Actor, which garnered high praise during its festival run in 2025, is an 18-minute short during which Eliot (Pedretti) stays with her recent ex’s new girlfriend (Hawke), only to develop deep chemistry — and perhaps something deeper. Eliot navigates the pair’s burgeoning “intimate connection” all while participating in a medical trial for her sudden and unexplained hearing loss.Directed by Eliza Callahan, the short film is loosely based on her semi-autobiographical novel The Hearing Test, which focuses on her re-examination of the world around her following her sudden deafness. The short garnered such positive reviews that sapphics have been chomping at the bit to find it anywhere online. Especially given the fact that Hawke and Pedretti have respectively played beloved lesbian television characters — Robin Buckley of Stranger Things and Dani Clayton of The Haunting of Bly Manor — some have even left impassioned pleas on Letterboxd for some streamer, any streamer, to please put it somewhere online.“pls let this be available in digital i cannot find it anywhere not even in imdb. i am forever jealous of people who saw this btw,” a reviewer on the platform wrote.Despite a growing canon of contemporary sapphic movieslike Backspot, Love Lies Bleeding, and Bottoms, representation is still abysmally absent onscreen, so it makes sense that people would be desperate to see this short.But we are happy to report that these prayers have been answered. The Non-Actor is slated to arrive on steaming platform Mubi on July 10, so we suggest you start planning your watch parties now.Get the best of what’s queer. Sign up for Them’s newsletters.