I was speaking to a friend who made a female-to-male transition recently, about the physiological change when she started taking testosterone supplements. This is a massive generalisation, but women tend to think about things more first, then act afterwards. Approaching things in a more logical, practical fashion. “It’s very easy to say that men think about things more simply, but it kind of is true,” she laughs.
From there, she did research into being transgender and intersex, plus gender-reassignment issues, speaking to male friends about their thoughts and behaviour. The Spierigs had discussed casting a male and a female to take on Jane and John, but Snook was determined to prove she could do both, auditioned, and got the parts. They’ve said: ‘Who’s the young DiCaprio lookalike?’” There are critics who think it’s two actors. “And here it is, in the middle of this crazy-ass genre film, this young woman giving this incredible performance. “We’re not used to talking about such a moving performance inside a genre film,” says Hawke of his co-star’s performance. She brings to the film a brittle vulnerability and deep sadness you feel her pain. Both Jane and John wear their hearts on their sleeves, and Snook – like a Claire Danes or Jessica Chastain – is arresting, her big desperate eyes demanding compassion whether she’s radiating love or hate. Starring with Ethan Hawke, she steals the show as both the pretty, fresh-faced teenage girl and the angry, grizzled man she becomes.
Yep, I know it.Īdapted from Robert A Heinlein’s 1958 short story All You Zombies, Predestination is a loopy action thriller and a bold, bizarre calling card for Snook, who plays a female born with both reproductive organs, surgically forced to switch gender. She says she’s “doing a film called Steve Jobs”. Other interviewees might have baulked, but she’s amused, and humble she doesn’t even mention last night’s awards. I’m in Waterloo underground station, PA announcements booming. She’s friendly and breezy, and laughs a lot. On the phone to the Guide, she apologises for being hard to pin down: she’s been country-hopping, and is currently at the mercy of Boyle’s schedule.
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