Hit and Miss

L.Jenkins

Just seen the trailer for a new show seemingly based on, I suppose the life and times of an Irish transsexual assasain. I actually look forward to having a look at it to see how they actually portray the character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WkBB2JZxT8

!!!!WARNING: If there is even the slightest hint that this thread will descend into something similar to the Paddy Powers thread, then I'm locking it straight away!!!!

Pacifist Pigeon

ItsThatManAgain wrote: »

Irish transsexual assassin.

Well, it's certainly a very original idea.

It sounds a bit like that film, "The Day of the Jackal", where "The Jackal" (Bruce Willis) was a gay assassin.

I wonder who comes up with these random storylines.

wonderfulname

Hmm... this looks familiar...

Ooh, we discussed it here when it was first announced, I'm definitely looking forward to it, I think it's got a load of the Skins crew behind it, looking at the way the trailers shot that would make sense, and would suggest the portrayal will be good.

Shakti

That looks cool,
I'm hoping for good things from it,

cgcsb

Pacifist Pigeon wrote: »

Well, it's certainly a very original idea.

It sounds a bit like that film, "The Day of the Jackal", where "The Jackal" (Bruce Willis) was a gay assassin.

I wonder who comes up with these random storylines.

Was he gay in that or was he a crazy c*nt who used and murdered a gay man?

Also I never seen the point of having a great actor like Bruce Willis play along side someone as useless as Richard Gere

Pacifist Pigeon

cgcsb wrote: »

Was he gay in that or was he a crazy c*nt who used and murdered a gay man?

Also I never seen the point of having a great actor like Bruce Willis play along side someone as useless as Richard Gere

What I got from that movie is that he was gay and he met another gay man at a gay bar and they dated. Then one night the other gay guy came home, the Jackal (Bruce) had Chinese order and the TV was on the the house where they should a picture of the Jackal's face saying he was a criminal and was wanted. So the Jackal (Bruce) killed the other gay guy because he know who he was.

Azure_sky

Any else notice how we're always portrayed as assassins in movies? Even in video games (Nina and Anna Williams) some seriously outdated stereotypes. It still could be a great show. I will certainly watch it.

Anyone know what part of Ireland it's set in? She seems to have a Munster accent.

Rick_

Pacifist Pigeon wrote: »

What I got from that movie is that he was gay and he met another gay man at a gay bar and they dated. Then one night the other gay guy came home, the Jackal (Bruce) had Chinese order and the TV was on the the house where they should a picture of the Jackal's face saying he was a criminal and was wanted. So the Jackal (Bruce) killed the other gay guy because he know who he was.

In the film The Jackal needed a parking pass to help him put the remote controlled gun in the van close enough to the area where the First Lady was to be assassinated. The guy he picked in the gay bar was specific as he knew he worked for the government in some way and had one of these passes, hence why he pretended to fancy him so he could get to his house and steal it. He killed him for 2 reasons, firstly because he saw him on TV and would have known he was the Jackal and secondly if he had reported his parking pass missing it might have started a security situation which could have jeopardised the job.

Or at least that's how I saw it.

Shakti

Azure_sky wrote: »

Any else notice how we're always portrayed as assassins in movies? Even in video games (Nina and Anna Williams) some seriously outdated stereotypes. It still could be a great show. I will certainly watch it.

Anyone know what part of Ireland it's set in? She seems to have a Munster accent.

I never knew Nina was from Ireland no wonder I always picked her on Tekken,

I'm pretty sure most of 'Hit and Miss' will be set in England,
Plotwise 'Irish Assassin' might have a 'Cal' feel to it a bit, but I guess we will have to wait and see.

SuziQ

Sevigny has done some current press and this is an excerpt:
From Interview magazine February 2012:

We had a lot of mettings about movement and I tried to slim down. I tried to lose a lot of weight because I thought it would make me look more masculine if I were gaunt. I had to do a lot of nudity as well, so I figured if I were less curvy, that would help. I was working out a lot because my character does a lot of physical stuff as an assassin. When I got to Manchester, where we were filming, I had rehearsals with the director and the writer. I wanted to play the role with this exaggerated feminine behavior that a lot of transgender male-to-females have. It’s like a learned femininity. It’s very girly. But they didn’t want that. I thought, Well, how are you going to know? How can we remind the audience who I am? So on the show there are a lot of quick glimpses of me naked, wearing a prosthetic penis, which was horrifying. But I tried to get some of my own ideas in there. We did all of these different walks. I literally spent hours just sitting and moving my hands and walking to prepare.

It was very hard being in Manchester. […] It was one of the grimmest places I’d ever been in my entire life, and I was there for so long. I hardly had any visitors. I was so alone.

Well, my character is mostly still a man beause she’s pre-op. But I concentrated on what makes someone an angry person or an evil person. She’s a killer. She kills for money, so she’s crossed over into that realm of a bad person. She’s a sociopath. She kills and harms and brings violence into the home without remorse — without batting an eye.

She is [a hired assassin]. But she has a family. She’s looking after a bunch of children, so she has the kids in the car, pops out, strangles a guy, and then comes back to the car and says, ‘You guys wanna go get some fish-and-chips?’ [laughs] It’s very businesslike, very cold. I talked with the directors about her growing up in violence. She’s self-abusive. She hits herself… She’s one of those. I think she finds comfort in it because she was beaten as a child.

[…] the woman who my character had a child with had other children. So [Mia] inherits this whole family. My character has all of these maternal and paternal feelings for her child. It really changes things. She’s been very cut off from the world, isolating herself in this apartment, so she begins to open up.

Full interview and worth the read is here:
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/chloe-sevigny


Its seems to be all a lot different from her earlier aspirations fir the role as outlined here:
Quotes from Chloë regarding the series; from Ology.com:

I’m going to England to do a miniseries. I don’t think it’s been announced yet, so I’m not supposed to talk about it. I will be playing a pre-op male to female tranny assassin. It’s f*ckin’ awesome, but there’s an accent.

and here

From BlackBookMag.com:

I feel this will be my most feminine, most glamorous role to date. I hope that I have enough gay stripes that I won’t get totally attacked. It was the creators’ idea not to hire a boy to play the part, and of course as an actor you’re going to jump on that. I’m going to try to play it as beautiful and as feminine and as glamorous as I can — not like Transamerica.

suzi