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Why HBO Max’s ‘Veneno’ Insisted on Casting Trans Performers to Play 1990s Trans Icon Cristina Ortiz

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorDirectors Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo were meeting with television executives in their native Spain when they were asked to name someone they’d love to make a biographical series about.“They probably expected us to say someone like Julio Iglesias, but one of us said, ‘La Veneno,’” Calvo tells Variety during a Zoom interview from the couple’s home in Madrid. “It was like a revelation.

One man was looking down at his papers and looked up and was like, ‘What did you say? Who?’ And I was just like, ‘She was a transgender woman.

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