Hit & Miss

• Posted by Andrea Caskin May 14, 2012 3,793 views
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  So yet again the role of a fictional transgender hit person has been taken on by a woman in the guise of Chloe Sevigny in the latest Sky Atlantic drama series Hit& Miss that’s just finished filming in Manchester!

  As Ms Sevigney says

  “I cried every day when they put [on the prosthetic penis]. You know, I’m ample-chested and I have this on. I felt very exposed, and it was hard, very hard, having people so close to your personal parts anyway — who you’re not sleeping with — for an hour and a half each day, to put it on. Then looking in the mirror… it was weird. I was lonely and I felt really unattractive. I was confused about my desirability — was I desirable? — in having that put on, and having men see me with that on.”

  Why oh why can’t they get a male or transgender actress to play the transgender roles, saves money on a prosthetic penises and the role becomes surely more dynamic and realistic.

  I am sure Ms Sevigny is a great actress but for example the American male actor Lee Pace did a great job of playing transgender Calpernia in the film Soldier’s Girl, so why can’t they find a suitable male or transgender actor to play in this one. I know they have to have an American ‘star’ in the part otherwise there’s no money but surely isn’t it time we had a bit more tension in these fictional roles by having a real male/transgender to play them …..or am I just banging on quietly in my own bedroom/head and does anyone else really give a stuff!?