Swank won an Oscar for the 2000 drama, but, the star said she’d appreciate seeing a transgender actor play the part of Brandon Teena, a man who was killed in a transphobic hate crime in 1993.
Swank added that she isn’t opposed to cisgender actors playing trans roles, saying, “I also feel like actors are actors.” “It was a jumping-off board to start a conversation that was needed,” she explained. “And we need this conversation to continue until everyone’s leading a safe life.”a 2020 interview with VarietyShe said that while “trans people weren’t really walking around in the world” openly in 2000, two decades later, there are a “bunch of trans actors who would obviously be a lot more right for the role.
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