Top 5 Trans Actors Telling their Story in Films
Trans gender is big issue for the film industry and the entertainment industry as a whole. Equitable Stewardship for Artists embraces the changes and help with assist to the cause. Hollywood is facing backlash around casting a transgender role. Again. The new film 3 Generations, originally titled About Ray, stars Elle Fanning as a transgender boy and explores the effect his transition has on his mother (Naomi Watts) and grandmother (Susan Sarandon). Though filmed several years ago, the movie has received criticism for casting a cisgender actress, Fanning, as the lead. It’s similar to the backlash movies such as The Assignment (which cast Michelle Rodriguez as a transgender woman) and The Danish Girl ( starring Eddie Redmayne as a transgender woman ) have received recently. Elle Fanning stars in '3 Generations' as a girl who wants to transition. (Photo: The Weinstein Co.) “Were I to be making this film ...