Oscars: When a woman won for playing a male character
The IndependentSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “She said, ‘Could you rewrite it for a woman?’” Weir remembered. “A magical transformation of one person into another.” The New York Times’ Vincent Canby said the crossgender casting “works to the film’s advantage. It’s Billy’s fate to play God, and gods are, if not androgynous, then not necessarily condemned to a single sexual identity.” A year later, Hunt won Best Supporting Actress from critics’ associations in New York and Los Angeles. But Weir indicated he would do it again: “Casting is critical and should not be influenced by any fashionable trends.” Hunt’s work remains audacious more than three decades later.
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