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Advocate.com article: “Chloe Sevigny Hits It with Her Best Shot”

Posted on: Tuesday, July 10, 2012
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Categories: 'Big Love', 'Boys Don't Cry', 'Hit & Miss', Film & Television, General News, Press Archive
Tags: acting, articles, chloe impersonator, drew droege, filming, interviews, lgbt, mia, nicki grant, personal, tranny

Advocate.com has published a really excellent and insightful article and interview with Chloë Sevigny ahead of tomorrow’s Hit & Miss premiere on DirecTV, in which Chloë talks about, among other things, working on Hit & Miss, playing Nicki on Big Love, a controversy that arose this spring of her use of the word “tranny”, and the Drew Droege “Chloe Sevigny” spoof videos on YouTube. Definitely one of her best interviews this year; highly recommend reading. :) Full article on Advocate.com or under the cut.

Chloe Sevigny Hits It with Her Best Shot
by Diane Anderson-Minshall

The actress subverts gender again in her newest role as a transgender woman who just happens to be an assassin.

Actress Chloë Sevigny may be best known to TV viewers for playing Nicolette “Nicki” Grant, the most interesting of three sister wives on HBO’s long-running polygamy drama, Big Love. But she’s equally iconic for her game-changing roles in the shocking Kids and the transgender Oscar-winner Boys Don’t Cry. Sevigny’s had a bevy of films that play with gender, including Candy Darling and If These Walls Could Talk 2, and last year she cross-dressed as distinctive fashion photographer Terry Richardson for the cover of the avant-garde trans fashion magazine Candy (shot by Richardson).

She subverts gender again in her next role, where she plays a transgender woman who just happens to be an assassin. It may be her best part yet. Hit & Miss, a six-part miniseries that premieres in July on DirectTV, centers around Mia, a contract killer whose trans identity is unknown to those around her. Her life, already precarious, is sent into a tailspin when she receives a letter from her ex. The woman is dying and wants to confess that before she transitioned, Mia fathered an 11-year-old son.

For the role, Sevigny wanted to play Mia as a glamorous woman who easily passes as female — more April Ashley (a gorgeous famous British fashion model outed as transgender in 1961) than Felicity Huffman’s Transamerica character, who she says “hadn’t quite flourished all the way yet.”

‘Abigail/1702′ rehearsal and performance photos

Posted on: Saturday, July 7, 2012
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Categories: 'Abigail/1702', Multimedia, Other Projects
Tags: abigail williams, patrick heusinger, photos, powerhouse theater, roberto aguirre-sacasa, theater, vassar

Check out these amazing photos of Chloë Sevigny rehearsing and performing on stage in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Abigail/1702, concluding its 2,5-week run at the Powerhouse Theater with tomorrow’s sold-out performance. Photos courtesy of Vassar & New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater and Buck Lewis.

New & Updated Photo Albums:

• Other Work > ‘Abigail/1702′ (2012) Performances
• Other Work > ‘Abigail/1702′ (2012) Rehearsals

Posted on: Thursday, July 5, 2012
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Categories: Fashion & Modeling, Media Alert!, Miu Miu, Multimedia
Tags: ad campaigns, marcus piggot, mert alas, print ads

The first two photos from Chloë Sevigny’s Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2012 campaign have finally surfaced online — check them out in our gallery. According to Women’s Wear Daily, the campaign was shot by renowned fashion photographers Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot, and will first appear “in the August issues of assorted international magazines.” Keep your eyes peeled for ‘em!

New Photo Albums:

• Ad Campaigns > Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2012