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Inshe was at the center of another controversy surrounding cis actors playing trans women: in an eloquent Twitter thread, she expressed her frustration after Matt Bomer was cast as a trans woman in the film Anything.

The best movies on Hulu are a cornucopia of classics, comedies, dramas, and more. Armistead Maupin explains why it was important the new Netflix version of his stories cast LGBT actors. As the flashback episode reveals, Anna is far from perfect: she almost immediately betrays her trans sisters.

Search Search. And can Julie Andrews return as the voice of Lady Whistledown? When you watch Olympia as Anna, you walk away with the sense that trans women are women. Instead, these characters are nuanced, at times messy, and always very real.

The Netflix revival of a beloved queer series brings back Olympia Dukakis as Anna Madrigal—and, in a crucial flashback episode, introduces trans actor Jen Richards as a young Anna. She confided in Poul, who put her in contact with fellow Tales star Laura Linney.

Netflix will present a new “Tales of the City” on June 7 and the timing seems right, as the series reunites us with some of the original characters while introducing appealing new ones.

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Eighteen years later, Dukakis is one of the only actors to appear in all iterations of the saga—alongside Laura Linney and Barbara Garrick. From comedy classics to underseen dramatic gems, your next binge is waiting. The team behind the new limited series hired a predominately queer cast and crew to make its story ring as true as possible; trans talent behind the camera included writer Thomas Page McBee and directors Silas Howard and Sydney Freeland.

Sign In. Save Story Save this story. The new limited series kicks off with the tenants of Barbary Lane throwing their beloved landlady a 90th birthday party. Looking for more? Photographs taken during the filming of their upcoming movie Happy Hours, written and directed by Holmes, already sparked rumors of a possible romance.

Richards later uploaded a YouTube testimonial detailing the real-life implications of cis men playing trans women, like Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club and Jeffrey Tambor in Transparent. In an interview with CBS News Sunday Morning, the actress and singer said the separation from Affleck had a positive impact on her personal evolution: "It helped me grow in the way I needed to.

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They depicted members of the LGBTQ community with grace and humor. But this celebration for a subversive heroine comes with a big asterisk. Dukakis, 87 years old, is a cis actor playing a trans character—a common sight on screens big and small. In playing a young Anna, Richards had to evoke a s housewife, assuming the aura of Olympia Dukakis while adding her own flourishes.

In it, characters played by Daniela Vega from the Oscar winner A Fantastic Woman and a slew of other trans actors take Anna under their wing. The original Tales of the City books written by Armistead Maupin were groundbreaking.

An L.A. Times review declared, “Years from now, television may look back at PBS' groundbreaking six-hour Tales of the City and say this is where broadcast television really grew up, where mainstream viewers finally welcomed diverse sexual behavior — straight, gay, young and old — in TV drama.”.

But when it came to Dukakis returning as Anna Madrigal, Richards had no objection. The new Tales includes of-the-moment story lines, like one in which Margot, a lesbian cisgender woman, considers how her relationship has changed now that her partner, Jake played by trans nonbinary actor Garciahas transitioned.

Award Season. She reprised Anna again in the and follow-up series.