Trans Actresses/Actors

We have made big strides with trans actresses and actors so many more are getting parts in television shows and the cis actresses and actors are getting the message.

Halle Berry said she's going to play a transgender man in an upcoming movie, calling it a 'female story'

Insider

By Canela López 

July 6, 2020

• Actress Halle Berry announced in an Instagram Live that she is going to play a transgender man for an upcoming film. 
• Calling the plot a "female story," Berry told hairstylist Christin Brown she wanted to focus on a trans storyline because "who this woman was is so interesting to me, and that will probably be my next project."
• Berry's announcement comes just a couple of weeks after the release of the Netflix documentary "Disclosure," co-produced by Laverne Cox, which described the damaging history of cisgender actors playing trans roles.
• On Monday night, Berry issued an apology on Twitter.

Actress Halle Berry said she will "probably" play a transgender man in her next film role during an Instagram Live over the weekend.

"[The film is about] a character where the woman is a trans character, so she's a woman that transitioned into a man," Berry said. "She's a character in a project I love that I might be doing."

During the interview with hairstylist Christin Brown, Berry repeatedly referred to the transman she's going to play as a woman while using "she/her" pronouns to refer to him.  

"I want to experience that world, understand that world. I want to deep dive in that in the way I did 'Bruised,'" Berry said. "Who this woman was is so interesting to me, and that will probably be my next project, and that will require me cutting all of my hair off."

"That's what I want to experience and understand and study and explore," Berry said. "It's really important to me to tell stories, and that's a woman, that's a female story – it changes to a man, but I want to understand the why and how of that. I want to get into it."

“...it changes to a man…” Well she is off to a very, very bad start.

Then she finds out what we think of her Twitter thought of her comments.

Halle Berry Apologizes For Considering Playing A Transgender Character

Forbes

By Elana Lyn Gross

July 7,2020

TOPLINE

Halle Berry apologized Monday night and said that she will no longer consider playing a transgender person in an upcoming film role, opening up a larger dialogue about representation — last month multiple actors and actresses who were set to play people of a different race were recast.

KEY FACTS

• In an Instagram live interview on Friday, the actress said that she was preparing for a role, but had yet to be cast. 
• Berry received criticism on social media for misgendering the character multiple times throughout the interview using the pronouns “woman” “she” and “her” to describe a character who transitioned and calling it a “female story.”
• On Monday night she apologized on Twitter and said that “the transgender community should undeniably have the opportunity to tell their own stories.”
• LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD tweeted that they were pleased Berry “listened to the concerns of transgender people and learned from them” and urged other powerful people to do the same and to watch the Netflix documentary Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen, which examines Hollywood’s portrayal of transgender people. 
• The controversy about cisgender people playing transgender people in movies has gone on for decades — notable actors and actresses who have played transgender people include John Lithgow, Hillary Swank, Felicity Huffman, Sofia Vergara and Glenn Close.

There are some many trans actresses and actors out there that are getting parts in TV shows, plays, and movies out there and hopefully the tide is turning for us.