Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski is working to get her next project, “The Hunted,” out of late-stage production. But the “Bound” and “Matrix” director says nobody in Hollywood wants to finance the thriller, which is budgeted at around $10 million, because of its trans representation.
“People like it, but they really don’t want to make it because it’s [got a] wall-to-wall trans cast,” Wachowski said on KCRW’s “The Business” podcast last Friday. “I have to get creative and figure out different ways that I can get this in front of people.”
“This is a script that was extremely important for me to write,” she continued. “It was a response to what is happening in the world for trans people, and it gave me a hugely cathartic receptacle to dump all of my anger and rage and frustration into.”
(Shower Thought) Wanted to add, there are maybe 100 good English speaking actors on earth. The chances you could make any non documentary movie fully casted with trans actors, and not have the movie be objectively terrible is impossible. No one wants to watch a movie with 99.9% amateur actors. If she really wanted to help trans representation in movies she's create a school/nonprofit dedicated to getting trans individuals into the film industry.