Jeffrey Tambor was having a moment.
The veteran actor was at his first wardrobe fitting for an unseen new show called Transparent. The series would be screening on a platform few knew existed, let alone watched. He would play Mort Pfefferman, a retired university professor who lived most of his adult life secretly identifying as a woman.
The series would begin with Mort disclosing this revelation to his remarkably self-absorbed family. From now on, he told them, she would be Maura.
Back at that wardrobe session, Tambor examined the dresses and blouses he would be outfitted in as Mort transitioned to Maura. The enormity of the role he was undertaking began sinking in.
“They asked me what I liked,” he said.
What do I like, he had wondered to himself.
“I didn’t know what I was doing,” he said. “Which was very much like Maura, because she didn’t know what she was doing.”
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