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News and Events => Arts & Entertainment News => Topic started by: Hazumu on March 23, 2009, 02:34:03 PM

Title: 'Twilight' Star Nikki Reed To Play Transgender Woman In 'K-11'
Post by: Hazumu on March 23, 2009, 02:34:03 PM
'It is going to be very challenging,' actress says of her upcoming role.

By Larry Carroll

(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mtv.com%2Fsitewide%2Fimages%2Fu%2Fmtv-logo.gif&hash=7885ef9b45de1945977ae4a796577d27411ffec7) (http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1607477/story.jhtml)

QuoteAnd for those keeping score at home, Reed's difficult challenge will have her playing a him, trapped in the body of a her. "I don't really have the most androgynous look, so that is going to be interesting," laughed the stunner. "I'm playing a man who has become a woman. ... I was born a man, but I never felt like a man — I always knew that I was a woman. I just was born with the wrong body parts."

Another cisgender woman playing a transwoman <sigh> =K