Joining the ranks of Barbara Streisand in Yentl and Julie Andrews in Victor Victoria, Glenn Close plays a woman disguised as a man in her new film Albert Nobbs. She recently rocked a short haircut, suit, and tie on the set of the movie in Dublin, Ireland.
Albert Nobbs is set for release in 2011. In the film, based on a short story by George Moore, Close plays the title character of an 19th century English woman who dresses up as a male butler to try to get a job in Ireland. Close played Albert Nobbs in an off-Broadway stage production of the story and co-wrote the screenplay for the film version.
Close, 63, stars in the television drama Damages and has been nominated for Oscars for her roles in 1980s films such as Dangerous Liaisons and Fatal Attraction*. She is also known for playing Cruella de Vil in Disney’s 1996 live-action movie 101 Dalmations and its 2000 sequel. Close had a cameo role as a male pirate in the 1991 Steven Spielberg film “Hook”.
* Looking like this, Glenn can boil my bunny any time.
(Thanks to Towle Road for the photo tip.)
Dude. You did *not* just forget to mention Linda Hunt’s oscar-winning turn in The Year of Living Dangerously. (Or, maybe that didn’t count as drag, since she was actually playing a cis man. Still, for shame.)
And sexy as hell.
Actually, I thought about Linda Hunt and also Cate Blanchett playing Bob Dylan in I’m Not There (by far the best part of the film), but those weren’t drag roles. Those were females actors actually playing men.
I think that is a perfectly valid position to take. And, except that I’m not sure Cate was playing a man (it was, after all, a riff on Bob Dylan), yes, she absolutely stole the show.
Thanks for the tip on Glenn Close. (Who I meant to reference as “sexy” in the previous comment, though I may have muddled my meaning.)
Ah! Now looking forward to 2011. I love Glenn Close (about just as much as I love Meryl Streep).