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Eddie izzard11/6/2023 Hey, Eddie.’ I had both being shouted out. “When I walked past some lads, they turned and called out, ‘Hey, Suzy. Born in Aden (now Yemen), where her father worked in the oil industry, Izzard moved to the seaside town after losing her mother to cancer at the age of six. The other day, Izzard was in Eastbourne, where she grew up. You can choose.” Six Minutes to Midnight: Emmy Award winner Eddie Izzard (Photo: Amanda Searle/Sky Cinema) I prefer she/her, but I don’t mind he/him. “I’ve decided for my 60s, I’m going to be based as a trans woman, but I’m still gender fluid. “That was just me feeling that I am gender fluid,” she says now. “It’s a nice place to be.”Īlthough she still opts for being called Eddie in print, Izzard recently announced that she was now predominantly using the name Suzy in her personal life – a name she has wanted to use since she was 10 years old. “Especially as I have been out for so long as a trans person, hopefully I should be able to sit inside each character and just play as feminine a character as I need to or as masculine a character as I need to,” she says. She hopes she can approach it all with a little more authenticity than that. The women in their sketches all have a certain falsetto voice.” There is a British tradition of ‘Oh, I’m playing a female now in a panto – here’s me with my big clumpy boots and terrible makeup.’ And then there’s a different thing that the Pythons did. The great thing about being a trans person is you can play the male and female characters with equal honesty. “As an actor, you’re trying to find the elements of all the characters that are slightly in yourself. Her trans identity has helped, she says, to inhabit all the characters in Great Expectations more convincingly. Today she is dressed in a glamorous outfit of dyed platinum blonde hair, sparkly earrings, a hot-pink mini skirt matching the shade of her lipstick, a black business jacket over a black chiffon top and shiny black boots with a raised heel. After decades of switching between “boy mode” and “girl mode”, in 2020 she announced that she was going to be “based in girl mode from now on” and requested that people use she/her pronouns. The 61-year-old, who prefers not to talk about her private life, came out as trans in 1985 – before many people even knew what it meant. The other thing that lends itself nicely to switching between characters, she says, is being trans. It is, like a lot of Izzard’s comedy, brilliantly daft. In one celebrated scene, she flips effortlessly between Darth Vader ordering lunch in the Death Star Canteen and the dinner lady who insists he needs a tray. Izzard has an uncanny ability to conjure up characters in the blink of an eye, her streams of consciousness engaging and electrifying. ![]() “Even before I was doing the show, I realised that I play multiple characters in my stand-up,” she explains. Music Interview Talking Heads on Stop Making Sense at 40 Read MoreĪn outstanding, off-the-cuff stand-up whose 2000 comedy special Dress to Kill picked up two Primetime Emmy Awards, Izzard insists that a one-woman Great Expectations isn’t that far out of her usual wheelhouse.
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