Eddie izzard where is he now

I have boy mode and girl mode. I do feel I have boy genetics and girl genetics. I have played one transgender character. I will play hopefully more transgender roles in the future, but there are a lot of boy genetics in me so I am happy to play boy roles. It would be great if more transgender actors can play more transgender characters. But the trouble with Hollywood is they have to see money, or some financial incentive in doing it.

It would be driven to make a profit first because it is show business. My self-belief has helped me get things going in these two careers.

I am about to perform in Spanish in Central and South America. Hanging out with those guys was a wonderful thing. It was nice to be included. I love film. What do you treasure most about that experience? Just to hang out with Robin was such a crazy thing. So sad about Robin. I think we have a number of things that were similar in the way we worked, but I just liked the guy.

So there were 23 years of twiddling my thumbs waiting for things to get going. While many transgender people suffer terrible gender dysphoria because they believe they have been born into the wrong sex, Izzard continued to seesaw between girl mode and boy mode.

Perhaps because of this there has been a tendency to dismiss her as attention-seeking or whimsical. But she insists this could not be less true.

Can she describe that hell? The panic attacks only stopped a few years ago. Izzard shows me how people used to laugh in her face. She moves her face forward so she is virtually headbutting the screen. What the fuck is that? I want to fight everyone that says things like that. There is another fight, though, that she thinks is utterly pointless — between some trans women and some feminists.

She believes they should be allies rather than enemies. How do we change that conversation? Izzard, aged 58, is dressed soberly in a shirt and jacket, and could easily pass as a politician. In fact, she says this is how she will dress when not if she wins her seat. Has she talked to Labour about standing in the next election? But still, a lot of other people want to stand, so nothing is a given.

Is she as determined about this as she has been about her standup, acting and running? So after climbing to the top of the standup mountain she walked back down and started again at the bottom of the acting mountain. And now, having made a respectable career for herself in acting, she is preparing to give it all up for Westminster. Why is it so important for her to go into politics? Moderates have got to go in. Why does she do all the marathons — are they an obsession? Again she returns to her early life and trans issues.

Great for reclaiming the sort of fitness I had as a kid. I can see in their eyes they go: well, fair play. In so many ways, she is bursting with self-belief. But Izzard says she has never found relationships easy.

As a kid, she struggled to make an impression on girls she fancied. And now as an out trans woman she reckons it may get a whole lot harder. These may not be great phrases but I can't think of better words. I am gender fluid, I do seem to be a mixture, but I'm now based in girl mode as a trans woman. And now that pronouns have come out [it] feels like a promotion, I'm very happy with that. Eddie, pictured as a young boy, told how she knew from childhood she was gender fluid, and recalled a lightbulb moment that occurred while living in Northern Ireland between and She said she knew she was gender fluid before her mother passed away when she was six in , and believes being trans is 'built in'.

The comedian said she believes her mother would be 'positive' about her life choices. She added that she still finds it difficult to talk about her mother's death from bowel cancer. Some people believe in a God, well, good for them but any God that said that my mum had to get cancer - no. The comedian said she believes her mother would be 'positive' about her life choices, adding: 'I think Mum would have been cool on it. Eddie is currently taking part in a charity challenge to run 31 marathons in 31 days alongside performing 31 stand-up comedy shows, and spoke to Simon as she completed her 18th marathon on a treadmill.

She is raising funds for the Make Humanity Great Again campaign, which gives money to charities making a real difference to disadvantaged and vulnerable people at this difficult time - including some of those dealing with the wider effects of the Covid 19 pandemic. Speaking about her own experience, she told the podcast: 'It's a tricky life, people still give you rubbish in the streets, it's still a tough fight.

She told the podcast: 'I wanted to get a seat as a member of the Labour Party to be an MP in the last election - that didn't happen for whatever reason. I'm entering the political phase of my life. But politics is what I'm about to go into once we get through this hellish Covid. Life, Interrupted is available on Global Player or wherever you get your podcasts every Monday.

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