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Felicity Huffman (Lynette Scavo) has now picked up numerous awards, including a Golden Globe, for her role in Transamerica. But she admitted recently that the role was not at all easy for her.

"Nothing about the character, or playing it, was ever comfortable," she told Variety. "Nothing. I was frightened and overwhelmed the entire time." In particular, being a woman playing a man playing a woman provided a difficult vocal experience. "Andrea James, who you [see] at the beginning of the movie, she helps people find their female voice, because hormones don't change your voice."

However Huffman soon found that changing her voice was no easy task. "So she started working with me, but we couldn't quite do it in reverse. I don't even have the resonance or the chest capacity, or a big head... okay until after the Emmy to make those deep sounds. So I went to various voice teachers trying to figure out what it was going to sound like, and finally I found Katie Bull in New York, and actually she approached it much the same way that I approached the script—which was we had to find what qualities were in her voice before we figured out what it sounded like. So we did sort of inside out."

Huffman said the Transamerica script both inspired and scared her. "The first thing that appealed to me was the screenplay, the script," she said. "If ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage as they say. And then it was the character. It's an actor's dream, and it's an actor's nightmare as well you can screw it up six ways from Sunday. It was the challenge of it, and the difficulty of it, and those things that repelled me also attracted me."

In a separate interview, Huffman reacted to her string of award successes. "It's incredible," she told ABC News. "It's been an amazing year. It's like my brother said, 'It's like you're in a parallel universe.'" She also admitted that the movie was so small she never expected it to get this sort of exposure. "It was a tiny movie that we did for $2.50. You were holding lights while you were acting. ... I was thinking I could probably get my mom to watch it. ... I never thought it could take off the way it did."

The full interviews with Huffman can be found at Variety and ABC News.

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