Transsexuality after “The Matrix”: how the Wachowski brothers became the Wachowski brothers – Frontera.info

On the poster that promoted the film “Cloud Atlas” released in 2012, it is podÃa read: “From the creators of The Matrix, the Wachowskis”
But things have changed since then. The Wachowskis now are the Wachowski brothers.
a change that completó this mià © Wednesday when the person known as Andy Wachowski, 48 year ± os, is acknowledged as a transsexual woman and announced that it wanted to be called Lilly Wachowski.

“Yes, I’m trans. and yes, complete © my transition,” he told the newspaper Wachowski Windy City Times.
“Just wanted and needed some time to absorb it in my head, but apparently you do not get to decide this” , it added the writer and director, who said he felt pressured to reveal their transsexuality by a British newspaper
this is not, however, the first time the creative duo undergoing a process of this type. in 2012 just for the promotion of the film “Cloud Atlas,” her sister Lana â € “known until then with the male name Larryâ €” also © n he announced his transsexuality.
sisters are now recognized in the world film for being the creative minds of futuristic cult saga “the Matrix,” in addition to movies like “Jupiter Ascending” and “V for Vendetta,” among others.
binary System according to the statement published by the newspaper Windy City Times, Lilly decidió Wachowski openly tell his story after © s that a reporter from the daily Mail pressed to reveal personal details in exchange for a promotional interview.
“I said tenÃa to sit with him © l someday week, to take pictures and tell this story could serve as inspiration podÃa “relató Wachowski.
” and he told me that he would not want to have someone from the National Enquirer (sensationalist newspaper of the show) siguià © ndome “, added.
the Daily Mail, however, he denied having threatened or pressured the director to tell his story.
” We made it clear during several times in the conversation that we are only interested in telling the story if and when she was ready and his Cooperation “, the newspaper said in a statement sent to the BBC Newsbeat program.
it demás, filmmaker , I HATH married for 20 year ± os with Alicia Blasingame, added that it was considered a lucky transsexual woman that had the support of his family.
“I have the ability to pay for treatment of the doctors to let me go à © success with this process, “he said.
And ± adió year that one of the biggest challenges was to overcome the vision of society that sees the gà © nero as a” binary system, where only men or women. “
” my reality is that I’m in transition and I will be all my life. We need to raise the dialogue beyond the binary simplicity, which is like a false idol “He concluded the filmmaker

Source: BBC.