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Meet Trans Actress Rebecca Root of The Danish Girl

Started by traci_k, January 20, 2016, 07:07:36 AM

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January 20, 2016, 07:07:36 AM
Meet Trans Actress Rebecca Root of The Danish Girl

http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/1/20/meet-trans-actress-rebecca-root-danish-girl

The Advocate.com
By Dawn Ennis
January 20 2016 6:46 AM EST

"My transition was imperative to the preservation of my sanity and to my health well-being," says British actress Rebecca Root, who has found recognition in the U.S. with a bit part in The Danish Girl. "Before I transitioned, I was double-acting, if that makes sense. I was acting being a guy, and I was employed as a professional actor, as a guy acting as a guy. Does that make sense? It was actually exhausting."

Her part in the film is small, taking just a day to shoot. The transgender actress plays a cisgender (nontrans) nurse who cares for Redmayne's character, Copenhagen painter Einar Wegener, at the hospital where Wegener is to undergo groundbreaking but rudimentary and frightening gender-confirmation surgery.
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And why shouldn't transwomen play cisgender roles? After all they are women. Kudos.
Traci Melissa Knight
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Adena

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January 20, 2016, 11:37:39 AM
I think this is kind of cool! (trans gal plays sis gal.) Hopefully she was a good resource for the other performers.
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Peep

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January 20, 2016, 01:59:12 PM
hopefully next time it'll be more than a cameo
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BeverlyAnn

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January 20, 2016, 02:10:47 PM
Early in the film at the party one of the guys, I can't remember his name, is trans.  I think he was the one at the bottom of the stairs talking to Gerda at the top of the stairs.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde
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