Judi has this amazing spark of vitality that traces all the way back to her youth.” She felt like a young woman, a young teenage girl almost. One time, Izzard recalls: “I was dancing with Judi to Ray Charles’s ‘What’d I Say’. The film was shot partly at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight (the first time any film crew had been allowed inside by English Heritage) and the cast would let their hair down in the evenings. Seeing her channel Victoria at close quarters was a daily masterclass. She has been a regular at his stage shows and has been in the habit, for reasons forgotten, of sending a banana to his dressing room each opening night, with “Good luck!” written on it. Izzard has done plenty of films before – he was in Ocean’s Twelve and Thirteen alongside George Clooney and Brad Pitt and the rest – but nothing that has required quite this level of costume drama restraint. In Stephen Frears’s interpretation of the true story of Queen Victoria’s late-life friendship with an Indian servant, Victoria & Abdul, Izzard plays a full-bearded, tweed-suited Bertie (later Edward VII), reining in his comic instincts to inhabit the outrage and scheming of a son seeing his mother apparently making a fool of herself. The “anything” he has been doing most recently is to take on the challenge of acting opposite Judi Dench and Michael Gambon. “You think, if I can do something that hard, but positive – maybe I can do anything.” After that afternoon, he says, he not only felt he could face down the things that scared him, he went chasing after them: street performing, standup comedy, marathon running, political activism, improvising his stage show in different languages – all these things felt relatively easy after that original coming out as what he calls “transvestite or transgender”. The experience taught him some things: that there was power in confronting fear rather than avoiding it and that from then on he would never let other people define him. Nick moved her on saying: “They are not here to defend themselves.He spun around to give an answer, but before he got many words out the girls had run in the opposite direction. “When women remove hijabs in Iran they are beaten to death by men because they are women, we can’t take it on and off She went on to criticise Eddie Izzard for using a women's public toilet calling it “boundary crossing”.Ĭommenting on the comedian previously identifying as a transvestite and now gender-fluid she said: “Women are not clothes to be popped on and off according to mood or political ambition. Ms Hatchet: “No, I just don’t believe that fiction.” Nick: “You know better than Eddie Izzard about what they think?” Reinforcing her views the feminist said “Eddie Izzard is a man” before Nick cut in again saying: “Even though they say that they’re not?” Labour's Rosie Duffield has gone on record saying she'll resign if Eddie Izzard gets to be listed as a female MP and even said she'd rather be "arrested" than call him a woman. Jean Hatchet then said how she completely supports Rosie Duffield describing the Labour MP as “brave”. “Eddie can’t seem to stay on exactly what he thinks he is so I don’t see why the rest of us should go on changing terms for him.” She went on to rebuke “this term gender-fluid” saying “a gender-fluid trans woman, well that’s not even choosing to be a trans woman. She said it was because even Eddie's approach to himself is “duplicitous” claiming “he’ll be a male when he wants to pursue a lucrative film role but he’ll be a female for a political career”.Įddie Izzard giving 'vote remain' speech in 2016. “Why are you not allowing Eddie Izzard to be a trans woman as they identify?” Picking up on her insistence to describe Eddie as a man Nick asked her: ![]() "Specifically in this case there were at least two other women on the shortlist that would like that position.”
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