Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. “Transparent: Musicale Finale” airs on Amazon Prime on September 27. And that, among all the things that have happened and behavior that has happened, that is worth remembering.” Alexandra has 15 jobs listed on their profile.
And that would not have happened unless she had been blessed by a truly gifted actor. View Alexandra Billings’ profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. “I believe that Maura stood for that, wholeheartedly.
You could have heard a pin drop in the drafty movie theater. I speak very clearly right now to all of the young LGBTQIA humans in the audience, that their history matters, and if you do not take time and remember who came before you, you stand on the shoulders of nothing.”īillings chose her words carefully here, doling out her emphasis and pregnant pauses to imbue the moment with requisite weight.
And I say this on behalf of her as well, I think she would allow me to speak for her. “The philosophy for Maura has been in me for a very, very long time. “Maura for me is a philosophy,” said Billings. The tableaus between the four of them are achingly reminiscent of scenes with Maura. In her scenes with the Pfefferman “kids” (Amy Landecker, Gaby Hoffmann, and Jay Duplass), she is maternal and loving. In her scenes in the “Musicale Finale,” Davina becomes an avatar for Maura, even more so than her literal avatar, the one played by Nayfack in an autobiographical show written by Judith Light’s Shelly. Tambor has repeatedly denied the allegations. Maura was written off the show following allegations of sexual misconduct levied at Tambor by two trans women involved with the show, Trace Lysette and Van Barnes. Jeffrey Tambor won two Emmys for his work as Maura, although some in the community criticized Soloway for casting a cisgender actor in the otherwise radically progressive series. The “Musicale Finale,” which airs on Amazon Prime on September 27, opens with the death of matriarch Maura Pfefferman, the titular trans parent whose late-in-life gender transition anchored the early seasons. Equal parts heartbreaking, creatively risky, spiritual and wacky, the first TV series to put trans characters front and center took its licks and went out with a swan song - literally.įollowing a premiere screening at the third annual Tribeca TV Festival, series creator Jill Soloway, Season 5 co-writer and composer Faith Soloway, and stars Judith Light, Jay Duplass, Alexandra Billings, and Shakina Nayfack gathered to reflect on the grand finish. Emotions were high at the New York premiere of Season 5 of “ Transparent,” a 100-minute musical that creator Jill Soloway has dubbed the “Musicale Finale,” as cast and crew gathered to bid adieu to the groundbreaking series.