Glenn Close Drawing Raves For New Cross-Dressing Film

[Shana A]

Posted on Advocate.com September 06, 2011 01:45:00 PM ET
Glenn Close Drawing Raves For New Cross-Dressing Film
By Jeremy Kinser

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/09/06/Glenn_Close_Drew_on_Experience_in_a_Cult_For_New_Crossdressing_Film/

Glenn Close's performance as a 19th-century cross-dressing waiter in the forthcoming film Albert Nobbs is already being touted as Oscar-caliber, but an incident in her childhood may have helped her understand the character.

Close plays an abused Irish woman who passes as a male waiter "in order to combat rampant gender and class inequality in 19th-century Dublin." The character saves his money in hopes of opening a tobacco shop and later begins to fantasize about settling down and possibly marrying an attractive maid, played by The Kids Are All Right's Mia Wasikowska.

[Lukas-H]

I want to see this movie :3