I wasn’t aware that casting a trans woman
was going to become like a milestone.
I was just following an intuition.
When I met Daniela Vega, the actress of the film,
it was clear in my mind, it was clear, that
I was never going to make the film without
a transgender actor.
It felt to me that would have been
an aesthetical anachronism.
And I felt that she was the one.
So it was a very organic decision.
Who can dictate that a love relationship
is not legitimate,
that a person is not legitimate?
The tensions between individual freedom
and what a community dictates,
or what law dictates,
those are very contemporary subjects.
I think we as a human species are going through
that crossroad.
Either we learn how to live together,
or we might just disappear.
