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Felicity Huffman (Lynette Scavo) spoke recently about playing Bree. However, that's not Desperate Housewives' Bree, but a male-to-female conservative transsexual in Transamerica.

"It's a man becoming a woman," Huffman told CBS News, about the film that made its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival two days ago. "But it's sort of, oddly enough, a road movie, and a rollicking good time, and it's really funny. And it's touching, and I think it speaks to everyone."

Huffman explained why Bree appealed to her. "She's so brave. She's sort of like your sweet little spinster aunt who's conservative and scared of everything and goes forward anyway, and is sort of silly in her uptight conservativeness, and she's just endearing in that way."

To play a man becoming a woman took a lot of research and training for Huffman. "I worked with some transgendered women," she said. "I worked with a man who coaches men to become women. I went to transgender conventions. I worked with an acting coach. I worked with my husband. I noticed how men moved. So I did. Oddly enough, it was a journey of becoming more feminine for me."

To read the full article, where Huffman talks more about the film, working with her husband William H. Macy and being a mother visit CBS News. To view the IMDb page for Transamerica, click here. Pictures of Huffman in Transamerica can be seen at OutNow.

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