A Fantastic Woman: The transgender star of an Oscar-winner

A Fantastic Woman is the first Oscar-winner starring a transgender actor. Tom Brook talks to the film’s star.

“I have a lot of love around me… it’s completely different.” The transgender actress Daniela Vega tells Tom Brook about how far her life is from that she portrays in the Chilean film A Fantastic Woman – which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film early in March.

Starring as a transgender woman rejected by her lover’s family after he dies, Vega believes the film asks more questions than it supplies answers. “Who is normal and what is normal?” she asks. “What kind of bodies can you inhabit?”

Talking Movies’ Tom Brook interviews Vega and the film’s director Sebastián Lelio – watch the video above to find out more.

Talking Movies: Oscars Special is aired on BBC World News on Tue 13 March at 10:00.

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