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“There's something about this show - with everything that you do, that you have this [thought] in the back of your head where you're like: who am I to deny this? This force is so much more powerful than all of us.. I mean, this sounds crazy. It sounds like we're in a cult..” - Jay Duplass
Paleyfest New York hosted a Transparent screening and Q&A! You can watch the panel here. Note there are some spoilers about events in the season two premiere, which they screened before the panel.
Jeffrey Tambor was awarded an Emmy for his role in Transparent.
Jill Soloway won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series. Here’s her acceptance speech.
What trans people are doing isn’t that interesting or weird. They’re simply saying, “Look, I know you thought I was a boy for however many years. But I’m a girl.” It’s not that crazy. What’s crazy and weird is how our culture has a tough time with it and gives people such a hard time. It’s about transitioning. When a parent transitions or anybody in the family transitions, it’s about the whole family transitioning from a way of seeing the world, which is through this binary lens, into this next version of, not only their trans family members but themselves, everyone in the family, transitioning. Everybody must transition. They go, “If my family member is willing to be this, then who do I become?” That’s what kids of trans parents are thinking about, that’s what I’m thinking about as the child of a trans person, and all family members think about anyone who is transitioning in any number of ways. - Jill Soloway
Transparent Theme (Solo Piano Version)
if you don’t think this is beautiful then i can’t help you
I didn’t know a full version of this had been released! You can get it on Amazon for free.
Jill Soloway talks about the process of getting Transparent on the air and what it has taught her.
While season two of Transparent is not starting production until next week, Amazon has already renewed it for season three! So in case season two ends with a cliffhanger, we’ll know it’s okay. (via The Hollywood Reporter)
Attention! Tomorrow (Saturday, January 24) Transparent's first season will be freely available for streaming on Amazon for 24 hours - meaning non-Prime subscribers can also watch it in its entirety. So tell all your friends to go to amazon.com/transparent tomorrow :)
"Day one Transparent season 2 y'all!" -Bridget Bedard (@bridgetkbedard) on Twitter. This season's writers & assistants include Jill and Faith Soloway, Ali Liebegott, Micah Fitzerman-Blue, Noah Harpster, Our Lady J, Esti Giordiani, Ethan Kuperberg and Bridget Bedard. And hey, Jane Lynch stopped by!
At the start of the season, [Jill] Soloway threw a get-to-know-you brunch, hosting the cast at her house for bagels and reading The New York Times. Everyone brought their kids. [Jeffrey] Tambor fell asleep on the couch. ("It felt like a beautiful Russian novel. That's how comfortable I was; I took a little nappie," he says.) "It really was like a dream family, you know?" Soloway says.
From this great piece on Jill Soloway, photo by Linda Nylind.
Jill Soloway's speech - Golden Globes 2015
Jeffrey Tambor: "I have to give kudos to a splendid actress, Alexandra Billings, who plays my friend Davina – a great actress and also a member of the trans community. We had so many scenes together and she helped me so much – not by anything she said overtly, but by just playing together in the scene. Everything was so delightful and I learned so much. Her stamp of approval meant so, so much to me. One of the most generous performers I’ve ever worked with."
Alexandra Billings: "[Jeffrey] is allowing Maura to come out of his life experiences. He’s not acting, he’s allowing the truth to come through the written word. The difference [between Jared Leto and] Jeffrey Tambor, and I know this because I work with [Jeffrey] every day, is that he does this with great compassion and a keen mindfulness of what is going on and for whom he is speaking. The is the large, cavernous difference of what Jared Leto finally did and what Jeffrey Tambor has known from the beginning."
Trans crew members of Transparent, via Variety
The Advocate: How was Ian Harvie's character Dale developed?
Rhys Ernst: “One of my jobs as a trans consultant and a producer on Transparent is to be a liaison to the trans and queer communities. I’m constantly looking out for trans personalities and actors to put in front of Jill and the writers, in hopes that certain individuals will end up inspiring characters.
For trans characters, there’s a relatively small pool of talent available (not because trans people aren’t talented, but because they’re a small demographic to begin with), so it makes sense to write for who is out there as much as possible. Ian was one of those people — everyone was really taken with him, and Dale came into focus after Ian Harvie’s visits to the writers’ room.
[Screenwriter and director] Francois Truffaut has a quote that I often paraphrase in regards to inviting the trans world into Transparent: When creating a fiction, leave the window open and let the real world in.”
Ian Harvie: “I was asked by Rhys to do background work on the pilot. I agreed to, and then later Jill Soloway invited me into the writers’ room to share my life and trans experience; she and the writers were developing a story arc for Ali Pfefferman. Everyone in the writers’ room wanted to hear my life’s tales, [and] I had them cracking up and tearing up at moments. Dale was born out of those stories I shared with Jill and her writing family.
At the end of my sharing those stories, Jill asked me if I would consider playing the role of Dale. … While crapping my pants, I said yes, but that I needed to dust off my acting skills. She said, “What if I helped you dust off those skills?” I said, “Then yes; yes, I would.” So Dale and I share a soul and some life experiences; it’s not exact, but it’s pretty darn close.”
Read The Advocate's full interview here
"I knew that I wanted to get the character of Maura out of a wig. This is going to be slightly confusing, because Jeffrey wears a wig. Jeffrey has no hair. But I knew that I wanted Maura to have her thinning, whitish-greyish hair as her hair at some point in the season so we had to have the wig — multiple wigs — but like a wig that would conceivably be underneath the wig that you see Maura wearing when we first meet her in the support group. Knowing trans womenand knowing what it feels like to have your own hair or to have a wig on, I knew there needed to be a moment where we let Maura have that freedom of like, "Oh I've got this fucking wig off of my head." So I knew that when we were creating Mort's hair for that first scene, it would have to be something that you could potentially make a side part and make it seem like Maura had finally started wearing her own hair.
I knew that was going to be a big turning point, when she went from having a wig on to using her own hair" -Jill Soloway
Jeffrey Tambor: "There were three consultants from the transgender community. They would come to my hotel, and they once came and we went out on our first field trip. We went out dancing to a [transgender] club in North Hollywood – And we went dancing, and I remember walking through the hotel, and I thought I was going to die, basically.
Rico Gagliano: "Why?"
JT: "Because I was so scared. Because I was way out of my element. I felt somebody was going to say something, or do something –"
RG: "Were you in costume when you did that?"
JT: "Oh yes, I’m sorry, I didn’t tell you the whole story. Yes! I was in wig, and I was totally en femme, and I remember we couldn’t get our car. They couldn’t find our car. I stood there forever at the valet station. These were important things to me. I went shopping as Maura, and then I remember sitting outside next to civilians, and I was just scared. And I went, “Do not ever forget this moment.”
RG: "How did others react to you?"
JT: "There was one person who walked by me at the market and sort of smiled and shook their head, which I thought was very odd."
RG: "Do you think they recognized you? Like, “Hey, what’s up with Jeffrey Tambor?”"
JT: "I don’t know. My daughter came — my 7-year-old daughter — came to the studio on the day her Daddy was going to get a mani-pedi, and I thought was a singular father moment for me in my life. And I prepped her at home by saying, “Hmm, uh, erm, uh…” showing pictures, “Uh, erm, ah…” I couldn’t find the words. And finally she goes, “Daddy, Daddy I get it. Your character is more comfortable being a woman.”"
RG: "So you raised some sensitive children."
JT: "No, no. Let me correct you. And I like what you said, but I have children. And children have not learned hatred."
From this interview
Slate has an analysis of the opening credits:
The time code at the end is JAN. 1 1994 - the year that Mort Pfefferman began to come out as Maura.
Most clips are from barand bat mitzvah videos from the 1960s to the ’90s, which the creators found online and through their friends.
The credits also contain a clip from Frank Simon's film The Queen (1968): "one of the earliest screen portrayals of the lives of “female impersonators”—some identifying as gay men, some beginning to identify as trans women".
Read more about The Queen and the thought process behind the credits here.
