Then there is her solo performance of Dickens’s Great Expectations, which she hopes to take to the US. Yes, acting is her priority at the moment, but she is also planning a standup tour of Spain in Spanish.
EDDIE IZZARD MOVIE
The film is very loosely based on a remarkable true story about a tiny girls’ school in Bexhill-on-Sea (one of a number of places Izzard grew up in as the family regularly moved because of her father’s job with British Petroleum) whose students were all German, including daughters of the Nazi high command.īut Izzard being Izzard, the movie is hardly the only thing on her mind. Six Minutes to Midnight is yet another first for Izzard – her debut as a screenwriter. Today we are Zooming to discuss her new movie – an entertaining if rickety second world war spy thriller, in which Izzard stars alongside Judi Dench. It emboldened her as much as it terrified her – from then on she knew she could take on anything because nothing would be so scary.
Meanwhile, coming out at the age of 23 was the toughest thing she has done. Everything she has done since then, she says, has been for her mother – not only to make her proud, but also in the hope of somehow bringing her back. After her mother’s death she realised she would never again feel so lost and betrayed by the world. Read her memoir Believe Me, and the two most important dates are dissected time and again – first, when Izzard was six and her beloved mother died, and second, the day she first stepped out in a frock and lippy. She says she was four years old when she first had an inkling that she was transgender, even if she had no words for it back then. As far as she was concerned, being a transvestite simply meant being transgender without physically transitioning. For Izzard it was never just about having a thing for dresses and high heels, it was always about identifying as female. The thing is, she says, when she first came out as a transvestite in 1985, she was pretty much making the same statement she is now. I’ve been promoted to she, and it’s a great honour.” I’ve been promoted to she, and it’s a great honour You’ve just got to be she and her from now on because we’ve only got so much time on our hands, thank you very much.” How does she feel about that? She beams. “As I’m playing a male role, I suggested people should go back to calling me he and him for this, and what the world seems to have said to me is you can change your pronouns but you can’t use he and him as well. In the adaptation of Harlan Coben’s thriller Stay Close, Izzard plays a small-town lawyer called Harry.
EDDIE IZZARD SERIES
Take, for example, the new Netflix series she is currently working on in Manchester. Izzard doing standup at the Boulevard Theatre’s Raging Bull club night in the late 80s.
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