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Duncan Tucker, director of Transamerica, recently spoke about why he cast Felicity Huffman (Lynette Scavo) in the lead role as transgendered Bree.

Tucker told StarNet that he first saw Huffman on stage ten years ago. "She just always struck me as this actress with compelling intelligence and presence," said Tucker. "When I was writing this, I knew I needed a transformative actress. Somebody who could do a Meryl Streep thing and completely disappear into a role and, ultimately, sort of come out of a cocoon. I had an instinct that Felicity could do that. And, boy, she knocked my socks off."

Tucker couldn't have chosen a more fortuitous candidate. She had to finish the film to go film a TV pilot for a program called Desperate Housewives. At the time, Tucker admitted he saw it as a nuisance. "A stupid pilot. Who cares about a pilot?" But after it aired Huffman's profile rocketed, and Tucker was able to benefit from the exposure.

But Huffman certainly didn't forget the small indy film, and has tirelessly publicized it in recent months. "I hope people hear in [Bree's] voice an unsettledness, loneliness, stagnance and a haunted quality," said Huffman. "What I hope is that she sounds like she's striving, that she hasn't arrived, that she hasn't felt comfortable in her voice. That every time she opens her mouth she feels a big bull's-eye is painted on her forehead."

More from Tucker and Huffman can be found over at StarNet.

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