Amy Landecker tells me the fourth season of Transparent “feels incredibly vital.” While Amazon’s game-changing series has always carried this sort of importance with it, there’s something different this time around. Landecker says this season is remarkably different when we catch up at the BAFTA TV Tea Party the day before The Emmys.
Suffice to say, the show has yielded a staggering amount of depth and insight into the transgender experience. We see Maura as she begins her public transformation, and we meet many other transgender women who educate her along the way.
But this year, everything has changed. With the election of President Donald Trump, Landecker suggests, the very depiction of these transgender characters has suddenly become a political act. Landecker says this season will feature what she thinks is a historic first: we’ll see a nude scene with transgender actress Alexandra Billings, who plays Maura’s close friend and confidant, Davina. “This feels now like we’re in a fight,” she tells me. “The first three seasons, we were under a very welcoming administration . . . now, everything we do feels like an act of resistance.”The fourth season of Transparent premieres on Friday, Sept. 22. It arrives almost exactly eight months after the inauguration of Trump. In that short amount of time, the President has moved to ban transgender soldiers…
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