Posted on Advocate.com November 04, 2011 06:00:00 AM ET
Hung's Transgender Actress Just Wants Respect
When the HBO series tackles a trans storyline this week, it will call upon trans actress Jamie Clayton to bring real-life lessons to the part.
By Diane Anderson-Minshall
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Clayton appears on a two-episode arc, the first of which was written by lesbian director Angela Robinson (of D.E.B.S. and The L Word fame) and Hung scribe Julia Brownell, making for one of the few times in which a transgender actress has been cast to play a trans woman on screen.
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The Advocate: It's really rare for trans actresses to actually get cast on TV of any kind, especially non-reality. And usually when there's a trans character, non-trans actresses get cast for those roles. How did you get involved with Hung?
Jamie Clayton: They actually found me through an article that was written about an acting studio that I attend. There was a big article in the New York Times, and writers were reading this and when it came time for them to start auditioning people for the role, they contacted my agent and I submitted an audition and before I knew it I was in LA fitting wardrobe and on set filming.