What Chloe Sevigny Really Thinks About Those Drag Impersonator Videos
The actress subverts gender again in her newest role as a transgender woman who just happens to be an assassin.
BY Diane Anderson-Minshall
July 09 2012 11:30 AM ET UPDATED: July 09 2012 8:13 PM ET
http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/television/2012/07/09/chloe-sevigny-hits-it-her-best-shotActress Chloë Sevigny may be best known to TV viewers for playing Nicolette "Nicky" Grant, the most interesting of three sister wives on HBO's long-running polygamy drama, Big Love. But she's equally iconic for her game-changing roles in the shocking Kids and the transgender Oscar-winner Boys Don't Cry. Sevigny's had a bevy of films that play with gender, including Candy Darling and If These Walls Could Talk, and last year she cross-dressed as distinctive fashion photographer Terry Richardson for the cover of the avant-garde trans fashion magazine Candy (shot by Richardson).
She subverts gender again in her next role, where she plays a transgender woman who just happens to be an assassin. It may be her best part yet. Hit and Miss, a six-part miniseries that premieres in July on DirectTV, centers around Mia, a contract killer whose trans identity is unknown to those around her. Her life, already precarious, is sent into a tailspin when she receives a letter from her ex. The woman is dying and wants to confess that before she transitioned, Mia fathered an 11-year-old son.
For the role, Sevigny wanted to play Mia as a glamorous woman who easily passes as female — more April Ashley (a gorgeous famous British fashion model outed as transgender in 1961) than Felicity Huffman's Transamerica character, who she says "hadn't quite flourished all the way yet."
