Bruce Jenner is lobbying for a female impersonator to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
On Jan. 4, the 66-year-old former Olympian, who now goes by the name Caitlyn Jenner, will host a private invitation-only screening for the straight-to-DVD movie Tangerine for Academy Award members.
Tangerine, which was filmed exclusively with iPhone 5s, features transexual Mya Taylor as a 24-year-old sex worker whose best friend Sin-Dee Rella (Kitana “Kiki” Rodriguez) is released from prison and returns to L.A. to find the “real fish” — a biological woman (“with a vagina and everything”) who is sleeping with his man.
The scene that shows Sin-Dee brutally dragging the actress down the street by her hair was the subject of a violence against women protest recently.
“You didn’t have to Chris Brown the bitch,” says Taylor in the film.
It seems violence against women is acceptable as long as the aggressor is a marginalized drag queen.
Ironically, Jenner, who will attend the screening with Taylor, was recently acquitted for killing a biological woman.
The screening will be filmed for an episode of Jenner’s poorly-rated reality TV series, I Am Cait.
“Now that more trans roles are being written, it’s time to look at trans actors who can play these roles,” the film’s director, Sean Baker told TheWrap.
Watch the movie trailer below.
