My worst moment: 'Transparent' co-star Alexandra Billings confronts transgender negativity
by Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune
Oct 27, 2017
4 minutes
For all the Pfefferman family dysfunction that drives much of Amazon's "Transparent" (now in its fourth season) it is Alexandra Billings' turn as Davina - friend, confidant and mentor to Jeffrey Tambor's Maura - that gives the show its grounding, both as audience surrogate and the most well-adjusted person of the bunch.
"When the show's creator, Jill Soloway, cast me I said, 'Look, I am tired of playing transgender people in the hospital. Or hookers. Or a hooker on my way to the hospital. I'm tired of playing all these victimized people. I just want to be me.' This is the way I sound, this is the way I dress, this
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