Sometimes it feels like people can’t wrap their head around the notion that an ‘androgynous’ trans woman with shorter hair could be beautiful. Hari Nef Read Quote
When people ask me what I do, I tell them that I ‘do things in front of people.’ I don’t know why I do what I do. I’ve tried working behind the scenes. I felt left out! Hari Nef Read Quote
I had family who exposed me to all sorts of different media involving actors – films, theatrical productions touring through Boston. My grandparents, particularly my mother’s parents, were huge fans of all the arts, and they took me to these shows and exhibits at a very young age, so I was just immersed in it. Hari Nef Read Quote
I admire actresses who are willing to jettison the easy route toward exposure and commercial success as an actor in favor or a slow burn, choosing projects carefully, and building an artistic practice over time that feels specific to who they are as artists. Hari Nef Read Quote
I’ve certainly been in situations where I’ve been rejected and endangered and had my humanity put in question – just as almost every woman on the planet has. Hari Nef Read Quote
It’s time for the aesthetics of upwardly mobile feminist respectability to make room for the aesthetics of survival, particularly trans survival. Hari Nef Read Quote
There are no trans roles, and if there are, they go to Jared Leto or Eddie Redmayne or Elle Fanning… Will there ever come a point where I could play a woman in a realistic, naturalistic drama and have there not be the word ‘trans’ in the script? Hari Nef Read Quote
