Sentences with phrase «cisgender characters»

But trans people are seldom given other parts (and if they are, don't get nominated for awards for their «brave» portrayals of cisgender characters) so the problem persists.

Not exact matches

A documentary about trans women in Puerto Rico, Mala Mala offers viewers both the glitz and the humdrum from a variety of colorful yet human characters, from Ivana Fred, a politically - minded woman who spends her evenings passing out condoms to sex workers, to Sandy Rivera, a sex worker with a loving cisgender boyfriend.

Although movie characters who are transgender have been rewarded with Oscar nominations, including Jared Leto in «Dallas Buyers Club,» Hilary Swank in «Boys Don't Cry» and Felicity Huffman in «Transamerica,» all the actors behind these performances are cisgender.

Director Roland Emmerich summed up this mentality in response to criticism over his period drama, Stonewall, in which he created a fictional white, male, cisgender, «straight - acting» character to lead a true story about an act of defiance by some of the most marginalized people in the LGBT community.

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.

The actor's biggest strength — his willingness to give himself away completely to a character's physicality — mostly puts to rest questions of a cisgender man playing a trans woman.

Also, when stepping away from the basic cisgendered heterosexual norm, too many authors put way too much emphasis on the sex rather than the rest of the characters» lives.