No Excuses!

They only want known actors

There are no good trans actors

Trans actors don’t have a track record

Well that cannot be said anymore a trans actress won an Oscar!

Chilean drama 'A Fantastic Woman' addresses transgender rights 
Fantastic foray
Orlando Weekly
By Cameron Meie
March 14, 2018

"Fantastic," like "awesome," has lost most of the power of its original meaning and is now a sullied synonym for great. But in naming his film A Fantastic Woman, Chilean writer-director Sebastián Lelio has embraced all interpretations of the word – political correctness be both damned and respected – to create a film that honors gender identity while challenging our notion of what it means to be transgender.

Marina, a transgender woman and aspiring singer, is in love with Orlando, a wealthy man 30 years her senior. Though their love is unconventional, they have high hopes for their future together – until Orlando dies unexpectedly. Instead of being allowed to grieve, Marina is ostracized by Orlando's family.
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Shot and scored beautifully and fashioned with a fittingly deliberate pace – the pace of grief – the film features intriguing supporting performances but is powered by newcomer Daniela Vega as Marin. Chile's first openly transgender model, actress and singer, Vega never strays far from her stoic, mesmerizing, almost one-note performance, but one always gets the sense that she herself has lived a life not dissimilar to her character's.

Deadline Hollywood writes,

The timely title began its career at the Berlin Film Festival in 2017 where it won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay. On Oscar nominations day in January, Lelio told me he and Vega were “remembering how two years ago we were shooting wondering if everything was going to even work. It seems like a long beautiful journey.”

While the multi-layered/multi-genre A Fantastic Woman is “not a cause film,” Lelio has previously told me at its center “is a real beating heart, Daniela’s heart. It is a portrait of a real transgender woman, so it’s undeniable that dimension of the film is crucial… I’m happy to see it well received within the community, but especially how generously it has been received by people have no connection to the community, who have just been exposed to a love story that has a transgender woman. The complexity is beautiful.”

There are so many talented trans actors and actresses out there just begging for work and many of them have won awards for their performances.

• Rachel Crowl for her performance in “And Then There Was Eve.
• Michelle Hendley for her 2015 performance in “Boy Meets Girl.”
• Laverne Cox for her performance in “Orange is the New Black.”
• Rebecca Root is an award-winning actor and star of BBC Two sitcom ‘Boy Meets Girl’.

Then there are actors such as Candis Cayne, Tom Phelan, Jamie Clayton, Ian Harvie, Mya Taylor, Elliot Fletcher and Alexandra Billings who deserve a chance to star in a major movie.

It is time to stop making excuses why trans parts are given to cisgender actors.