'We need to give real representation to people.'
Well, now, the 59-year-old is speaking out about her role in 2010'sThe film follows Jules and Nic, a married lesbian couple raising two children born with the help of a sperm donor. The biological father unexpectedly becomes part of their lives, and completely disrupts the family's dynamic.
"I’ve thought about that a lot. Here we were, in this movie about a queer family, and all of the principal actors were straight," she said."I look back and go, 'Ouch. Wow.' I don’t know that we would do that today, I don’t know that we would be comfortable.""We need to give real representation to people, but I’m grateful for all of the experiences that I’ve had as an actor because my job is to communicate a universality of experience to the world.
As for her opinion on the matter, Lisa Cholodenko, the film's writer and director, said,"I tend to err on the side of, 'It’s make believe,' and it’s of the discretion of the director who’s the most compelling for that job. So, I don’t think it’s mutually exclusive.""While I want to promote gay people representing gay people, trans people, all the rest, queer people — it’s also a commercial prospect. It’s all those things," she explained further.
She added that she could"feel [Julianne and Annette's] gayness," and that she had approached a gay person, specifically Jodie Foster, for the role: When I cast Julianne and Annette, I really felt like, on the continuum of gayness, I could feel their gayness. It didn’t feel phony to me. I didn’t feel like I was putting somebody in an outfit and asking them to parade as something that was false. There was a conversation about going out to Jodie Foster. I think somebody even asked her. So there was a gay person who wasn’t interested in portraying a gay person.
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