Four years after one of the Matrix filmmakers Larry -before-Wachowski saga, Lana, revealed he was transsexual, his brother and co-director of the film, formerly known as Andy Wachowski, he announced yesterday the world that also has become a transgender woman.
the Hollywood star, now named Lilly, announced the news of his new identity through a publication of the Windy City Times newspaper on LGBTI issues Chicago, United States.
from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance activist group against defamation -Glaad-, they belong to the two filmmakers, also gave the announcement of his sexual condition, which was the knowledge of his family , friends and colleagues, according Lilly said.
“we all agreed. Yes, thanks to my fabulous sister had done before, but also because they are fantastic people, “he reiterated Wachowski, who has been married to Alicia Blasingame since 1991.
In the letter of the American filmmaker, of 48 years old, where he confesses his sexual condition, also he ensures that disclosure decided to make media after the press for his country to tell her story. “In response to this threat to get me out of the closet against my will, I prepared a statement containing a portion of urine, vinegar and twelve of gasoline,” he reflected in Lilly paper.
Contribution to cinema
the Wachowski, now sisters, brothers have had a promising film career in Hollywood.
When just beginning to walk through the world of cinema, the couple debuted in the United States with the film Bound in 1996. Its resounding success was marked in 1999 with Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves film that later became trilogy. The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolution were the films that followed the outstanding production.
By 2006, these sisters joined forces to direct and produce V For Vendetta. The following year they released The Invasion, then Speed Racer, and in 2009 decided to pause in their productions after the giant screen the movie Ninja Assassin.
The 2012 was for the sisters date return to film shoots; in that year premiere Cloud Atlas, film based on a novel of the same name.
During the gala launch of this film, which was held at the Toronto International Film Festival, was when Lana Wachowski 50-year-old announces to the world their sexual orientation.
rumors of transition Lana wife and had been playing in international media since early 2000. But it was after 12 years that the filmmaker was presented in public transformed into a woman. This fact became the first Hollywood director to declare transsexual.
Several months after his confession, Lana was applauded with the Visibility Award Human Rights Campaign. Upon receiving the award, she gave transgender a speech in which he revealed that when he was young he had contemplated suicide because of the confusion that generated his hidden identity.
The latest audiovisual work of the Wachowski is the Sense8 series, transmitted by Netflix. The couple is currently conducting the second season of this production, also science fiction.
After learning about the publication of Lilly, the director of GLAAD Nick Adams, he said “I hope she can be truly true today. ” So far neither the legal nor relatives of the sisters representatives have spoken to the statements of the minor member of the Wachowski family.
The last most notorious cases of sex changes in showbiz before Lilly Wachowski, were Caitlyn Jenner and the Austrian singer Conchita Wurst.
the sisters Wachowski
Lana Wachowski, who grew up with the male name of Larry, he is currently a director, producer and scriptwriter of American cinema. This transgender woman decided, in 2012, after spending two heterosexual marriages, to tell the world his true identity. In the Toronto International Film Festival, at the premiere of the film ‘Cloud Atlas’, the then brothers now Wachowski, the star confirmed suspicions pointing that since 2003, had been transformed into a woman.
known until two days ago Andy Wachowski, the filmmaker now called Lilly became known in the world of cinema since 1996 with the ‘Bound’ tape. Before consolidating in the audiovisual, also the director, producer and screenwriter, born in Chicago on December 29, 1967, he married Alisa Blasingame, who continues to be his wife. two days like his sister in 2012 ago, Hollywood star confessed coming several years becoming a transgender woman.
trilogy
‘Matrix’, the best known work of Wachowski, is part of a saga shaped by the aftermath of this film, “The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolution ‘. This trilogy starring Keanu Reeves Canadian actor, owed its success to the ingenuity of its creators by mixing action with special effects and futuristic ideas that captivated the public.
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