You know that famous Guerrilla Girls campaign around the Oscars back in 2002? The one about the US Senate being more progressive than Hollywood, because just 4% of directors are female? Adjust the figures: someone defected. Larry Wachowski, of the Matrix-making Wachowski Brothers, recently completed the transition from male to female, and, intriguingly, will be talking to the press about becoming Lana.Given that even Jodie Foster won’t talk about being gay, or even being outed (she gave a juicy quote to Entertainment Weekly on that magazine cover… oh, hold on, she said “no comment”. Yawn), this sounds pretty cool.
Except that now, the people behind the Wachowskis’ new movie Speed Racer are denying the whole sex change thing. There’s a probing piece about it on Cinematical, which pretty much implies that Speed Racer bosses want to avoid “negative publicity” around the film. The site earlier reported that Lana would not be allowed to handle the movie’s publicity, for fear of alienating an audience.
Excuse the righteousness, but every time something about trannys, homos, dykes, queers, lezzos, poofs or fags crops up in Hollywood, it reverts right back to the silent era. Because that sort of thing doesn’t exist in the entertainment business. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
