"She's just engendered differently": Wachowski siblings give first interview in 14 years
Yahoo UK Movies News
By Liz Hoggard
http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/-she-s-just-engendered-differently---wachowski-siblings-give-first-interview-in-14-years-125320801.htmlThe reclusive Wachowski siblings have given their first interview since 1999 to 'The Sunday Times' newspaper about co-directing 'Cloud Atlas' with German director, Tom Tykwer.
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Since their smash hit, 1999 'The Matrix', elder sibling Larry has become Lana. As a transgender woman she says she related to the novel's themes of a soul's transcendence beyond boundaries of gender, sexuality and ethnicity.
She criticises a culture that wants to see gender "as a binary thing... In the same way that some people look at the movie and get upset because it doesn't fit into a conventional mould, people get angry because I represent something that transcends their limited definition of what gender is."
Younger brother Andy defends his sister's decision: "It's not like Lana was knocked over the head and now she's a different person. This is not 'Regarding Henry'. She is the same person. She's just engendered differently and the sooner we can get people understanding that ... it's all part of the normalisation period."