Sentences with phrase «cisgender actors»

The entertainment industry's habit of casting cisgender actors in transgender roles — some of them, like Transparent's Jeffrey Tambor, giving performances that are exceptionally fine — has gone hand in glove with its near - monolithic focus on stories of transition.

Perhaps the story resonates so deeply because Vega is trans, a revolutionary choice in an industry that traditionally casts cisgender actors in transgender roles — and Lelio knew that if he was going to go this route, he needed to do it right.

In the last few years there has been an increasing backlash against the continued and nearly universal casting of cisgender actors in transgender roles, as well as the stereotypical characterizations of trans and non-binary people as portrayed on the big screen.

With such cisgender actors as Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl), Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent) and Hillary Swank (Boys Don't Cry) scoring career triumphs in trans roles, it's gratifying to watch Vega seize her moment with such subtle, stirring authenticity.

Trans narratives are beginning to assert themselves in mainstream and indie circles, but they are still vessels for cisgender actors to win acclaim for «challenging» roles.

We've already seen some backlash towards Hollywood's practice of casting straight cisgender actors in LGBT roles.

In addition to rarely producing, writing, or directing our own stories, transgender people don't often have the opportunity to take on leading roles (see cisgender actor Matt Bomer playing a transgender woman in «Anything,» which debuted at last year's Los Angeles Film Festival).

Historically, there has been a divide: underground films in which trans people play themselves, often with improvised dialogue that uses their own experiences; and mainstream films in which A-list, cisgender actors portray a trans character.

Sure, films like Dallas Buyers Club and shows like Transparent have gone a long way toward destigmatizing and humanizing trans characters in media, but there's still a fundamental problem with those examples — their trans characters are played by cisgender actors.

Vega, a transgender, has been quoted as discussing the reality of cisgender actors (someone whose gender identity corresponds with the sex assigned to them at birth) who have played transgender roles, notably Jared Leto who won an Oscar for his transgender woman with Aids in (The Dallas Buyers Club 2013).

Her presence, her body — and the story that her body tells — brought something that a cisgender actor could have never brought to that part.»

«Daniela's presence took the film in a different dimension, and she brought something that a cisgender actor wouldn't be able to bring,» Lelio said.