There are two trans people who are in a movie and they are not playing parts of trans women but cisgender roles.
You might remember Rebecca Root from the Danish Girl where she played a nurse at the hospital where Lili Elbe had her surgery.
Two Trans Actors Talk Playing Cisgender Characters in ColetteJake Graf plays the part of Gaston De Caillavet in the movie.
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By Dennis Hinzmann
September 21, 2018
By the numbers, the state of transgender representation in Hollywood has come a long way. But, when it comes to letting trans people tell their own stories or stories from their community on-screen, there’s a long way to go.
Just this summer Scarlett Johansson withdrew from playing a trans man in Rub & Tug following outcry from the transgender community and a legion of trans actors demanding that trans people be allowed to tell trans stories.
In the new period drama Colette, starring Keira Knightly and Dominic West, a historical world of feminism, misogyny, and transgenderism before such a term existed are laid open to the audience, with the typical struggle of trans actors being flipped on its head. Director Wash Westmoreland not only filled his spin on the queer life of French novelist Colette with supporting trans actors, he filled them in cisgender roles.
You might remember Rebecca Root from the Danish Girl where she played a nurse at the hospital where Lili Elbe had her surgery.
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