Exclusive: Jill Soloway and Alexandra Billings Discuss How Far-ish Transgender Storytelling Has Come
In its fourth season, Transparent delves into more of the Pfefferman family ancestry and anxiety -- if the latter were possible. As the crew travels to Israel so Maura can attend a conference, the Holy Land serves as a place for revelations and realizations for everyone. Back home in California, Davina’s origin story becomes clearer as she struggles with her own illness and her place in life and stars in the first nude scene of a transperson on television.
“First, television has never seen a trans person, certainly with the age I am and with the body that I have, naked on television,” says Alexandra Billings, who plays Davina. “There is a care that Jill and the writers took -- it wasn’t about fetishizing or sexualizing, and it wasn’t desexualized. It was simple, plain conversation.”
Soloway, who identifies as nonbinary and uses the pronoun “they,” began Transparent pulling from their own experiences with their...
“First, television has never seen a trans person, certainly with the age I am and with the body that I have, naked on television,” says Alexandra Billings, who plays Davina. “There is a care that Jill and the writers took -- it wasn’t about fetishizing or sexualizing, and it wasn’t desexualized. It was simple, plain conversation.”
Soloway, who identifies as nonbinary and uses the pronoun “they,” began Transparent pulling from their own experiences with their...
- 9/22/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
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