Transgender Actors Roundtable: Laverne Cox, Chaz Bono and More on Hollywood Discrimination

Variety ^ | August 6, 2018 | Ramin Seetoodeh

[EdnaMode]

As a transgender woman, Trace Lysette had watched from the sidelines as actors like Eddie Redmayne (“The Danish Girl”) and Matt Bomer (“Anything”) played members of her community on the big and small screen. When news hit last month that Scarlett Johansson would portray a transgender man in the biopic “Rub and Tug,” she could no longer stay quiet. Since the “Transparent” actress wasn’t getting opportunities to audition for cisgender (non-transgender) roles, she argued on Twitter that the industry should at least allow transgender actors to play what they know.

[EdnaMode]

Hollywood cares about one thing: making money. Films about or starring transgender actors don't usually make money.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Transgenders should wear a cape, Edna. THAT would fix the problem.

[pepsionice]

Now, if had a Transgender version of Young Frankenstein...I might be willing to sit and watch that.

[bk1000]

There is no such thing as a transgender. There are, however, mentally ill persons and they should be treated, not pandered to.

[katana]

The Crying Game was an exception. But then again, it didn't come out of Hollywood.

[HangnJudge]

Fifty First Dates had a great transgender part...
Could work well as a comic relief

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343660/

[miss marmelstein]

Can somebody tell me what career Chaz Bono has had?

[fwdude]

Can somebody tell me what career Chaz Bono has had?

Political class victim. Yes, it's a career.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

Don't they understand the concept of acting?

We don't have to have actual superheroes to portray superheroes, or actual aliens to portray aliens.

[Fhios]

Hollywood discriminates against ugly.

[yesthatjallen]

Rock Hudson played a straight man.

[miss marmelstein]

I thought so. I hadn’t seen her in a big budget film or on B’way or collecting an Emmy in YEARS!

[yesthatjallen]

Cross dressing was always comedy gold.

Many great comics did it.

It's funny because it's absurd (as are transgenders who want to be taken seriously).

[fwdude]

“Chaz” thinks that she’s suffering “discrimination” because few will date her.

[Karma_Sherab]

“Chaz” thinks that she’s it's suffering “discrimination” because few will date her it.

There, fixed it

[Dutch Boy]

I agree.

If a man thinks he is a penguin, he is deemed mentally ill.

If a man thinks he is a cow, he is deemed mentally ill.

If a man thinks he is Napoleon, he is deemed mentally ill.

If a man thinks he is a woman, he is praised for being a hero and a roll model.

This is a very sick and twisted world the left is trying to force on normal people.

[ridesthemiles]

MRS DOUBTFIRE was comedy gold.

So was Tootsie

[I want the USA back]

I don’t care if someone with intact genitals plays the part of someone who had them chopped or reshaped. They are both insane.

[Boogieman]

The few people that want to pay money to watch freaky trannies already go to the drag queen bars. There aren’t enough of them to make a major motion picture profitable.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

The biggest casting travesty of them all....