00:02By the time I went to Make Boys Don't Cry, the rape scene, I was the calmest person on that
00:07set
00:08because I had been through it already, and everybody else was agitated and nervous.
00:13Brennan Sexton and Peter Sarsgaard were the two rapists raping Hilary Swank, who was playing
00:18Brennan Tina, and we'd done a ton of rehearsals and everything was safe, but Brennan Sexton
00:22disappeared, and I come upon him, and he's crying, and he said, I'm not going to do the scene
00:26because I don't want to be a guy who does that to a woman. I said to him, that's why
00:32you have to play
00:32this role. The performance was in the vulnerability, so I said, because you don't want to do this to a
00:38woman is why I want you to perform this. You're not doing it to her, and it ended up being
00:44beautiful.
00:45We were fortunate with Boys Don't Cry that I was able to teach myself enough to bring that character
00:49life in such a way that it worked. It worked for queers, it worked for straight people, and that
00:54was what we really hoped. It may have had some small part to some of the opening up of the
00:59culture,
00:59and if you look at what's happening with Time's Up and with Me Too, there's not only an acceptance
01:05and a belief, but there's a power systemically to change, and that to me is extraordinary.
