Daniela Vega in A Fantastic Woman, which has been nominated for best foreign language Oscar Juliet Jacques Fri 2 Feb 2018 03.45 ESTLast modified on Sun 4 Feb 2018 22.05 EST During that interregnum, there had been one other significant Hollywood portrayal of a…
Find out what made it onto our list of 10 of the best movies about transgender people. Juliet Jacques Updated: 30 March 2015 Transamerica (2005) Director Duncan Tucker Unlike Wild Side, Duncan Tucker’s film did not employ a trans woman as…
By Dominic Clarke | /Bent July 22, 2014 “Transamerica” is nearly ten years old but it is a film that was so far ahead of its time in the treatment of transgender characters that the film world still hasn’t caught…
BY ADVOCATE.COM EDITORS JUNE 23 2014 37. Transamerica (2005): This award-winning film, starring Felicity Huffman in an Oscar-nominated performance as transgender woman Bree, admittedly doesn’t get everything right when it comes to portraying a fully developed trans character on the…
hosted by Nancy Nangeroni & Gordene O. MacKenzie Behind the scenes of the movie “TransAmerica,” a number of trans persons provided guidance to the filmmakers and actress Felicity Huffman. Andrea James, longtime transgender activist, appeared in the film as…
March 20, 2006 Vol. 65 No. 11 WE WERE THE ONES WHO… COACHED FELICITY ON PLAYING A TRANSSEXUAL To prep for her role in Transamerica, Huffman was coached by transgender activists Andrea James, 39, and Calpernia Addams, 35. “Males…
All Things Considered MARCH 05, 2006 4:27 PM ET DOUGLAS HOPPER Felicity Huffman’s Oscar-nominated performance in Transamerica features her as a woman who used to be a man. Like many transgender women, Huffman’s character has to work hard just to sound…
By Brad Balfour March 2, 2006. What research did you do? I did a lot. I am so sorry to run down the litany – but I did not know a lot about the transgendered community; as Andrea James, a…
by Michael Giltz February 28, 2006 In Transamerica the difficult challenge for costumer Danny Glicker was making a small and feminine woman like Huffman convincing as awkward at being a girl. “Felicity has a gorgeous body and is so petite,”…
— as told to Sharon Ward February 22, 2006 Transsexual Andrea James, 39, was Felicity Huffman’s coach for the movie Transamerica. Here, she tells how her own life story shaped Hoffman’s Oscar – nominated performance. Felicity approached my business…