Hilary Swank has reflected on her role in Boys Don’t Cry two decades ago, saying changing awareness means she wouldn’t take the part today.
Swank won her first Oscar for the role of real-life transgender man Brandon Teena, murdered in a hate crime, in the movie which was released in 2000. She told The Times of London newspaper:
“Now for the most part, in most places, it’s accepted to be a trans person. [But] at that time, people weren’t even coming out as gay and lesbian, it was a career killer, or whatever. They weren’t ready to tell their family, or maybe they weren’t even ready to tell themselves. We’re in such different times — I feel like it would be a great opportunity for an actor who’s trans to play that role.”
Swank added: “But I also feel like actors are actors. We are supposed...
Swank won her first Oscar for the role of real-life transgender man Brandon Teena, murdered in a hate crime, in the movie which was released in 2000. She told The Times of London newspaper:
“Now for the most part, in most places, it’s accepted to be a trans person. [But] at that time, people weren’t even coming out as gay and lesbian, it was a career killer, or whatever. They weren’t ready to tell their family, or maybe they weren’t even ready to tell themselves. We’re in such different times — I feel like it would be a great opportunity for an actor who’s trans to play that role.”
Swank added: “But I also feel like actors are actors. We are supposed...
- 4/20/2024
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
While Covid has never quite been eradicated, it has certainly been contained, allowing society to look to the future with a degree of positivity. This has been reflected in so many ways, not least the rise in movie attendance. The road to recovery has been long and painstaking, but moviegoing is back in vogue, with viewings increasing by over 60% last year, a trend likely to continue. Another reason for this growing popularity is the way movies are reflecting trends such as inclusivity. More and more LGBT-oriented films are being released, especially titles focusing on trans characters. Let’s take a closer look at these societal shifts, with the bonus of six movie suggestions where trans storylines are captivating audiences.
Why Inclusivity is Important
Minority groups have always had good reason to feel excluded from mainstream society, with fewer social opportunities, and sometimes facing outright prejudice and discrimination. The equality of...
Why Inclusivity is Important
Minority groups have always had good reason to feel excluded from mainstream society, with fewer social opportunities, and sometimes facing outright prejudice and discrimination. The equality of...
- 9/26/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
During a wide-ranging conversation for THR‘s Awards Chatter podcast at the Campari Lounge at the Cannes Film Festival, Oscar winner Alicia Vikander went through her career from her upbringing in Sweden and background in ballet to her Oscar-winning role in The Danish Girl and her latest film Firebrand, which will screen in competition at the festival.
Vikander’s big break in her native Sweden came with 2010’s Pure. She then turned heads in the 2012 Danish film A Royal Affair, co-starring with Mads Mikkelsen, but it was her role in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina that gained her notoriety in the U.S. “Everything that needs to be there, is there and nothing else. A lot of it you had to understand by reading the action and understanding what is happening in the scene emotionally,” she said of the Garland- written screenplay. For the self-tape audition for the film, she...
Vikander’s big break in her native Sweden came with 2010’s Pure. She then turned heads in the 2012 Danish film A Royal Affair, co-starring with Mads Mikkelsen, but it was her role in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina that gained her notoriety in the U.S. “Everything that needs to be there, is there and nothing else. A lot of it you had to understand by reading the action and understanding what is happening in the scene emotionally,” she said of the Garland- written screenplay. For the self-tape audition for the film, she...
- 5/21/2023
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cuban star Ana de Armas made waves with her controversial take on Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde,” an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ novel about the late star. De Armas’ endlessly emotive performance makes an interesting contrast to London-born Eddie Redmayne, tightly controlled in “The Good Nurse,” as serial murderer Charles Cullen, whose crimes eventually raise the suspicions of the film’s title character, Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain). In conversation, de Armas and Redmayne rave about each other’s work — an especially meaningful compliment for de Armas, as Redmayne knows his Monroe: He starred opposite Michelle Williams in 2011’s “My Week With Marilyn.”
Ana De Armas: I’ve been a big admirer of yours for a long time. I remember going to the premiere of “The Danish Girl.”
Eddie Redmayne: Really?
De Armas: And the after-party. I was just blown away by your performance. So it’s pretty...
Ana De Armas: I’ve been a big admirer of yours for a long time. I remember going to the premiere of “The Danish Girl.”
Eddie Redmayne: Really?
De Armas: And the after-party. I was just blown away by your performance. So it’s pretty...
- 12/9/2022
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Eddie Redmayne has admitted he doesn’t think he’s made many “great” films.
The actor can next be seen playing American serial killer Charles Cullen in the Netflix movie The Good Nurse.
Redmayne, 40, has had an award-winning career spanning 20 years. He won an Oscar in 2015 for his performance as the physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, and was nominated for another the following year for his controversial role as pioneering transgender woman Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl.
But he still doesn’t think he’s made many brilliant movies. “The aspiration is always to make a great film and I don’t think I’ve made many of those,” he told The Times’s Saturday Review.
Speaking about his first big Hollywood role, opposite Robert De Niro in The Good Shepherd, he said: “I was paranoid, I was disappointed and I did beige work.”
Looking back on his university days,...
The actor can next be seen playing American serial killer Charles Cullen in the Netflix movie The Good Nurse.
Redmayne, 40, has had an award-winning career spanning 20 years. He won an Oscar in 2015 for his performance as the physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, and was nominated for another the following year for his controversial role as pioneering transgender woman Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl.
But he still doesn’t think he’s made many brilliant movies. “The aspiration is always to make a great film and I don’t think I’ve made many of those,” he told The Times’s Saturday Review.
Speaking about his first big Hollywood role, opposite Robert De Niro in The Good Shepherd, he said: “I was paranoid, I was disappointed and I did beige work.”
Looking back on his university days,...
- 10/15/2022
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - Film
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