Everybody doesn't transition for the same reason. Mya, do you feel that recent exposure of higher profile transgender stories have made an impact for the broader trans community? Oh, yeah. Even with this awareness growing, we're still very much in the beginning, and this is hopefully just one of many stories that will lead to equality in terms of the way we treat our fellow human beings. The ninth murder of a trans woman in the United States happened in May. Even with what's happening with the awareness and the visibility of the trans movement-it's a wonderful, wonderful thing that this has happened in the last year, and this is out there, and people are aware and talking about it-but the murder rate has risen this year. Hopefully, that will lead to greater sensitivity and awareness. Then, what it can do is hopefully open doors to those individuals who are sensitive enough and are interested enough in exploring more.
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Sean, are there advantages to this approach that may advance the conversation around the LGBTQ community in ways other TV and film haven't? I think that it allows easier access to the mainstream audiences who are looking for entertainment. Even for the people that do sex work because they can't get a job, you know, do all this crazy stuff, all you can do is laugh to try to keep yourself floating. And then you leave because you know they don't want you around, and you're out in the streets and you're homeless, you don't have nothing to eat, and you have to go eat at the youth center. When you're going through life, and you come out to your family as gay, and they say, “You're going to hell.” And this and that. Yeah, but that's not just for the people in that area, that right there is for me alone. In the end, if you're down, if you're homeless, if you're on drugs or whatever, then all you have is yourself, your humor.
I want to see people happy and laughing and everything no matter how bad the situations get.
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I don't want a theater full of crying people. I wanted it to be funny because my personality, no matter what I'm going through, I'm always going to laugh. Mya, why was it important that the film had a real lightness and sense of humor? Because Santa Monica and Highland is a real place, and all the stuff that goes on in that area, which is in the movie, really does happen, so why would I cover up a beautiful wall with wallpaper, you know? It's like that story just needed to be put out there. It was just an area I was drawn to from a filmmaker’s point of view of, Why hasn't this been shown before on camera? It's been known for several decades as a place in which transgender sex workers would work the area. In this case, it was the corner of Santa Monica and Highland. It was more about telling a story that took place in a particular location. Sean, why did you want to tell this particular story? To tell you the truth, we went in not knowing what story we were going to tell. With Tangerine set to open in Los Angeles and New York City this week, and more widely in the coming weeks, we sat down with Baker and Taylor to find out how exactly they managed to make one of the most exciting films of the year. Though the plot leads them through prostitution, jail, drug use, and some generally abusive situations, they are not treated as poor, wretched souls but rather deadpan survivors in an indifferent La-La Land.
Their characters, Alexandra and Sin-Dee, are out but far from down. **Sean Baker’**s low-budget, independent film, shot entirely on modified iPhones, stars first-time film actresses Mya Taylor and Kitana Kiki Rodriguez as transgender sex workers in a part of Hollywood through which millions of people have driven but few have actually bothered to notice. Tangerine may not be the summer comedy we asked for, but it just might be the summer comedy we need.
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