Sevigny wore prosthetic penis for new miniseries
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WENN.com | Friday, January 20, 2012
http://www.hollywood.com/news/Sevigny_wore_prosthetic_penis_for_new_miniseries/14316516In the six-part TV series, the Big Love star plays a pre-operation transsexual assassin, undergoing hormone therapy to become a woman.
Sevigny refused to have a body double stand in for her for nude scenes and instead decided to undergo an entire physical transformation - but the gruelling process proved to be emotionally overwhelming for the actress.
She tells Interview magazine, "I tried to slim down. I tried to lose a lot of weight because I thought it would make me look more masculine if I were gaunt... On the show there are a lot of quick glimpses of me naked, wearing a prosthetic penis, which was horrifying... There was talk of doing body doubles and special effects, but in the end we decided I'd wear a prosthetic.