Veteran actress Chloë Sevigny, best known from the series Big Love, will be digging deep for her next role as the lead character in Hit And Miss, a new show set to premier on British television sometime in the near future.
Sevigny will be playing Mia, a (post-op?) transwoman that happens to be a contract killer. If that weren’t enough to grab your attention, Mia finds out that she fathered several children while still in her male body.
The Hettie Macdoland-directed series may be coming to HBO or Showtime stateside, though no details are available at the moment.
Talk about your career transitions!
Do you think this is a series that will have you watching? What do you think?
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I have never cared for the casting of women as transgender individuals. It feels deceptive. There are many beautiful and talented people who are genuinely transgendered who could play these parts as well or better.
I find that this kind of bias in Hollywood is akin to the practice of casting caucasian actors in blackface. It is, essentially, a practice of discrimination and of prejudice against the transgendered as if saying, “Yes, you are people and a part of our society but you will never be as good as ‘real’ women/actresses.” In the meantime, the producers and their companies will reap great financial rewards at the expense of the transgendered community.
In short, I am a transvestite and when I turn on some form of media that promises to show me something about transvestites and other transgendered individuals, I want to “see myself” up there. I want to see the beauty and art and reality of people born in one physical sex expressing themselves as the opposite. I don’t want to see some slightly “butch” beauty queen/model (whose looks only a tiny few of us will ever be able to come close to achieving) parading around in her easy femininity while telling us the woes of supposedly previously having had a penis.
Finally, what a crock for a plot about a transgender woman: She father several children? While not entirely out of the realm of possibility, it makes the character seem more stereotypically masculine than feminine. It makes her sound more like the stereotypical macho conqueror who adores the power of his penis than someone struggling with transsexualism and the hatred of and need to be rid of their penis. Again, we all deal with our issues before we come to terms with them in different ways, but here it just seems like a poor attempt to put the characters male past in sharp contrast with her female present. It feels contrived and forced.