No Ordinary Man | movie | 2021 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:01He was a doting, loving, caring, ordinary father.

00:06Father?

00:07Father.

00:08He was their father.

00:11I'm auditioning for the role of Billy.

00:13I'm here for the role of Billy.

00:15Auditioning for Billy.

00:16This is Billy.

00:22How would I summarize the story of Billy Tiptoon?

00:25He was a trans-masculine jazz musician.

00:28When I encountered Billy Tiptoon, that was the first time I encountered trans-masculinity.

00:35Those of us in this generation, we are in a much different place than Billy Tiptoon.

00:39We are public in a way that so many trans people before us haven't been able to be.

00:43Trans people's survival through history was based on invisibility.

00:48It's scary when centuries of your survival have been based on not being seen.

00:55And you have no models.

00:57You have no history.

00:58It's like you never existed, but you know you must have.

01:00And then you see Billy Tiptoon and you think,

01:02people like me existed and they did things.

01:04They were jazz musicians.

01:05They'd be one of the greatest jazz musicians ever.

01:07So that you're looking for someone who exists like you, so you're not alone.

01:11I'm Billy Tiptoon.

01:13There's a whole history of media where you see people and you don't realize that they're trans,

01:22and then something gives it away.

01:24And more often than not, it's the voice.

01:26My voice still squeaks.

01:27It keeps dropping, so I can't get used to it.

01:29I'm still trying to make my voice sound deeper all the time.

01:32It's such a volatile and complicated thing to imagine that we know what people's gender is from looking at them.

01:40It's not a question about passing.

01:43It's a transition story about somebody who's unhappy about something in their life,

01:48and they figure out the way to make themselves happy.

01:52Billy Tiptoon was so ahead of his years to be brave enough to hide in plain sight.

01:59He feels like he's the only person in the world who's like him.

02:02I've had that moment.

02:04So much of my not being seen as a small person has led me to this role of somebody who desperately wants to be seen.

02:13Lots of people in my community look to your dad as a kind of hero.

02:17It kind of blows me away that, you know, after all these years, anybody even remembers him.

02:22I thought I was like totally alone in this.

02:24I was like, I'm like, I'm not trying to be a part of the original.

02:29So I was like, my God.

02:30I came to help you out in my memory.

02:31So that's what I got here.

02:34I was just like, I'm like, I'm like, I was like, I'm a guy.

02:36I was like, I'm like.

02:37I was like, I'm like where I was.

02:39I'm like, I'm like.

02:41I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like.

No Ordinary Man | movie | 2021 | Official Trailer

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