HBO has released dates for the January 2006 airings of the documentary Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She. Andrea James and Calpernia Addams are featured in the program.
In this week’s article “Felicity Huffman Aces Gender-bending Role” by Matt Webb Mitovich, Felicity discusses the film and her work with Deep Stealth:
“I read every biography I could get my hands on, watched every documentary I could, looked through articles at the library and went to a couple of transgender conventions. I also worked with two women named Andrea James and Calpernia Adams, who helped me with everything from going through the script to telling me their life stories.”
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Ross von Metzke interviewed Deep Stealth’s Calpernia Addams and Andrea James for this week’s GayWired Magazine. They discuss their work with Felicity Huffman as she prepared for her role in Transamerica, and they talk about their own roles in the film. Calpernia and Andrea also share their thoughts on larger issues of trans portrayals in the Hollywood.
To view the interview, check out GayWired.com:
The 28 December 2005 issue of Back Stage magazine has a feature on Felicity Huffman called “Finding Her Voice.” She discusses her preparation for the role of Bree in the film. From the article:
To achieve Bree’s deeper, more masculine voice, Huffman studied with coach Andrea James, who works with many transgender women. “I still couldn’t get it,” Huffman says of the process. “I went through various voices-high, really low-and nothing was clicking. Then I met a woman named Katie Boll in New York, who’s a voice teacher. We kind of paralleled what I did with the acting part, which was, first I had to find the internal journey, and then I could find the externals. With my voice, we had to find a place that felt self-conscious and oppressed with a lot of self-loathing, and then figure out how to literally drop it. She figured out how to drop it about six octaves and what the warm-up was. I had to do that every morning."
Back Stage is the primary trade magazine for working actors. To read the full article, please visit:
http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/features/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001771451
Associated Press film reviewer David Germain has chosen Transamerica as one of the top ten films of 2005. He writes:
“As film critics, we had a problem this year. There were too many great movies to choose from and only 10 spots on our best-of lists. After much soul-searching and paring, here’s what we came up with - the absolute best of the best.”
“Felicity Huffman joins Dustin Hoffman, Julie Andrews and Hilary Swank in the Academy of Great Gender-Bending Performances, playing a man preparing for surgery to become a woman in Duncan Tucker’s road-trip comic drama. Huffman undergoes a remarkable physical transformation, but it’s her bearing - wry, shy glances, the tics of someone adjusting to a changing body - that makes her so lovably, painfully authentic.”
In the wake of a Golden Globe nomination for star Felicity Huffman, Transamerica opens in additional markets today. Be sure to check theatre listings in Washington DC and San Francisco for a theatre near you.
Fans can now hear selected dialogue and music from the film, including “Travelin’ Thru,” the Golden Globe nominated song by Dolly Parton via the Transamerica soundtrack page:
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