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May 12, 2023 · In conversation, Lysette has an accentuate-the-positive outlook — remnants of a Midwestern politesse, perhaps — that she admitted to using to find good in even the darkest memories.
- Erik Piepenburg
May 15, 2023 · The titular character, played by Lysette, returns home to an ailing mother, played by Patricia Clarkson, and a life she has long left behind. The reunion is uncomfortable, even agonizing at times, as Monica’s gender transition looms as a mostly unspoken element of the film. When the project premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, it ...
Mar 15, 2024 · After a long awards season, Trace Lysette is finally getting her flowers. Lysette earned much-deserved Oscar buzz for her riveting performance in Andrew Pallaoro’s family drama Monica this year ...
- Mey Rude
May 12, 2023 · Pallaoro asked Lysette for notes on the script — which she provided, scene by scene. "Some of the trans-specific stuff, I gave my opinion freely because he wanted to know," she shares. Eventually, Lysette was asked to also serve as an executive producer on the film, while Pallaoro and co-writer Orlando Tirado tailored the character to her.
Sep 1, 2022 · Lysette has previously spoken publicly about her own experiences of being estranged from her family and struggling to survive, though she’s since reconciled with her mother. In 2019, Lysette described herself to Them as “a trans woman who has been estranged from her biological family, living on her own, has a past in sex work, etc ...
- James Factora
Mar 17, 2023 · The trans-led indie film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2022 and is now screening at the 2023 BFI Flare Festival, stars Trace Lysette as Monica, a Midwestern trans woman who returns home to care for her estranged and ailing mother, Eugenia (Patricia Clarkson). In the decade that has passed since the pair laid eyes on each other ...
Jun 8, 2023 · Trace Lysette: “I did. It was an emotional premiere. It was an emotional premiere. What are the odds that of all the places that we could show this movie, that it would premiere there in the ...
