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Title: More to Eddie Than Meets the Eye
Post by: LostInTime on August 03, 2006, 01:34:04 PM
Post by: LostInTime on August 03, 2006, 01:34:04 PM
Article (http://feed.insnews.org/v-cgi/feeds.cgi?feedid=145&story_id=2037706)
Not in a big, political, out-and-proud transvestism kind of way, however. 'I've done one film where I wore a dress, but the film I need to do has to be something where the dress is incidental, and has nothing to do with the story - a bit like in my stand-up, where I try and talk about being a ->-bleeped-<- in an oblique way,' he explains.
'I try not to be preachy about the transgender thing. People can be aware of it, but without feeling it's attacking or embarrassing them. I want to take away the scary element.'
Not in a big, political, out-and-proud transvestism kind of way, however. 'I've done one film where I wore a dress, but the film I need to do has to be something where the dress is incidental, and has nothing to do with the story - a bit like in my stand-up, where I try and talk about being a ->-bleeped-<- in an oblique way,' he explains.
'I try not to be preachy about the transgender thing. People can be aware of it, but without feeling it's attacking or embarrassing them. I want to take away the scary element.'