yodajazz
12-15-2010, 07:04 AM
Once I figured it out, I thought this would be a story to share with HA. This takes place in Italy. In 1989 a 22 year old actor won acclaim, playing a "teenaged transvestite prostitute". The name of the film is translated as "Forvever Mary". The actor Alessandro Di Sanzo, went on the reprise the role in a followup film, and had similar types of roles in subsequent films. It turns the the actor was really transexual and now lives as a woman, named Alessandra. This video of her in Italian, is of her with clips from her ground breaking role.
YouTube - Alessandra di Sanzo: l'attrice transgender in una rara intervista e immagini d'archivio (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp2DS1VPAAg)
It should not be a shock to anyone that she became trans. My point is in this case the Italian public has had twenty years to see an effeminate youth, who today we would call transgender become a woman. Here is another clip from the 1989 film:
YouTube - Mery per sempre - Discorso di Mery (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwRNhCXr-F4)
The film, from what I see from the clips, has many of the trails and tribulation of transgender youth.
Here is a clip of her in 2009, now a woman. She is now 43.
YouTube - trans ALESSANDRA DI SANZO (mary x sempre) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z8r4BeAcsw)
YouTube - Alessandra di Sanzo: l'attrice transgender in una rara intervista e immagini d'archivio (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp2DS1VPAAg)
It should not be a shock to anyone that she became trans. My point is in this case the Italian public has had twenty years to see an effeminate youth, who today we would call transgender become a woman. Here is another clip from the 1989 film:
YouTube - Mery per sempre - Discorso di Mery (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwRNhCXr-F4)
The film, from what I see from the clips, has many of the trails and tribulation of transgender youth.
Here is a clip of her in 2009, now a woman. She is now 43.
YouTube - trans ALESSANDRA DI SANZO (mary x sempre) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z8r4BeAcsw)