Felicity Huffman wraps up a stellar year conquering film and television. December 28, 2005 To achieve Bree’s deeper, more masculine voice, Huffman studied with coach Andrea James, who works with many transgender women. “I still couldn’t get it,” Huffman says…
Actress Felicity Huffman of ‘Desperate Housewives’ opens up about playing a woman in the middle of a gender reassignment in the new road flick ‘Transamerica.’ By Logan Hill / Nerve.com December 16, 2005 How’d you decide what to read?…
Jill Feiwell DECEMBER 11, 2005 To prep for the role, Huffman read the script with one question in mind — what was Bree’s internal journey? “She wants to become who she really is,” says Huffman. “Then I thought, ‘How do…
by Peter D. Kramer December 7, 2005 To make her performance as authentic as possible, Huffman went to transgender conventions and read biographies of transgendered women. And Calpernia Addams and Andrea James, two transgendered women, were on the set with…
Thanks to Felicity Huffman for the shout-out on the Today show during her interview with Matt Lauer!
By William Keck 11/21/2005 Huffman had absolutely no idea what it was like to be a transsexual. As far as she knew, she had never even met one. “I thought they were an odd minority at best,” she says. Coaching…
May 16, 2005 TERRY GROSS Husband and wife actors Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy have collaborated on the new offbeat feature Transamerica. Macy is the executive producer on the project, which features Huffman as a male-to-female transsexual who…
REBECCA TRAISTER APR 23, 2005 What kind of research did you do? Well, the first thing I did when I talked to Duncan was I told him how excited I was and then proceeded to [try to] talk him out…