Are you KIDDING, the director? Smdh, no props to that horrible director Kimberly Pierce, she's a straight up horrible human. To claim that you researched the story about Brandon Teena for 5 years and then have the audacity to do an interview and disrespect Brandon by calling him SHE the entire time is just a slap in the face. Plus in the movie she has Brandon's character say he's an azzhole more than once, she made it seem as if it was a game to Brandon getting women. Plus how she portrayed Lana Tisdale and her mother, making it seem as if her mother was a trashy drunk, making it seem as if Lana was a trashy drunk, druggie with no future ahead of her. Nope, no respect whatsoever for the director who so called researched Brandon's life for 5 years. I mean she didn't even put Philip Devine in the movie because he was black and she didn't want to explain how he came into the picture. Then she has every character literally portraying the characters with their own names except for Lisa Lambert who's name was Candace in the movie. Like that made no sense whatsoever because she definitely didn't have Lana's or her mothers permission to use their names. Thankfully Lana sued her because of it and other thing's about the film and she won. So nope, no respect for Kimberly pierce, someone else should of done the directing, maybe someone who actually cared and would show respect because KP surely didn't. You should look that interview up, you would see what I'm talking about, she disrespected Brandon so badly, literally a slap in the face.

It's an exaggeration to say no one knew her. Someone had to have seen The Next Karate Kid

Both being from the same city is the most amazing part

YEAHH, both are born in Lincoln, same city, same region.

She played her struggle well. She deserved a better life

@@seanchaney3086He. Brandon was a He.

@BCS1105 No, a confused she

brandon is dead. the least you could do is call him a he because that's what he would want.@@seanchaney3086

yes! The interviewer seemed kinda transphobic

The only thing that Teena ever said on record was: "I have a sexual identity crisis" Swank is very careful not to presume how Teena defined herself - whether lesbian or a man or any infinite number of possibilities, so it is misgendering and anachronistic to refer to Teena as "He", at least without stating "he or she".

@@fellowcitizen By your very own logic, you just misgendered Brandon yourself. You wrote "how Teena defined herself" instead of "how Teena defined himself or herself." Defaulting to the feminine pronoun without having evidence that Brandon used it is just as "misgendering and anachronistic" as assuming Brandon used the masculine one.

@@ripplermirage207 Incorrect. In the absence of contrary evidence, a female subject is known as "her" and a male subject as "him".

@@fellowcitizen would assuming a male identity, actively lying to keep his biological sex a secret and desiring medical transition but being unable to access it because he's too poor be contrary evidence?

I agree but do you realize how much the movie left out? There's people involved who weren't mentioned in the movie.

Monirelinie I know sadly

It was the year 2000. The word misgendering didn't even exist. It was a lot harder 20 years ago. The general public weren't understanding of situations.

No he didn't. She was a biological female.

Have you seen a picture of Brandon? she has nothing to do with him.

Yes she does look like Brandon. And both of them are from small town Lincoln Nebraska so Who knows maybe they are distant relatives.

What really?! That's insane, she was absolutely amazing in this . If it's true that's so unfair

It was said right in the interview pretty much no one got paid. The movie was made with only $2 million.

Low budget indie movie bro

Yeah... I was like "ohhh. No" when he said that. The wrong pronouns throughout

?? She disguise herself as a boy. I’m confused what you’re conflicted about. I just watched it again after many years. Such amazing acting by her and such a sad story. She was a girl who pretended to be a boy and was killed for it. Sad

@@ffsjgowijennifercruz9546 Brandon was a transgender man, which would mean he WAS a boy and used he/him pronouns.

I knew he would and I still got pissed off

@@ffsjgowijennifercruz9546 he was a trans man

Matoki Moomoo it was very hard to watch . I agree but it was something that affected me a lot.

Adorable Girl 15 Same

I shed a few tears, it was horrendous.

I think they purposely made the rape scene hard to watch. Meaning, they didn’t gloss over it.

I agree. I always mute and look away... it was probably 10X worse when it happened in reality.

Because the actress is a woman and seems like a woman, Brandon had a appearence of a man.

A youtuber called "Boyform" actually made a video about this exact topic, it's a very good watch if you like video essays about these kinds of things

The real Brandon had a feminine touch, according to his many many gfs. But that's why they liked him so much because he was gentle and knew what made them happy. Nothing wrong with that anyways. He liked fighting and cars and women, can't get more manly than that 🙃

I have only seen a resurgence in this film. Coming from a gen z I was urged to watch this and look into Brandon’s case.

THEY* bruh im further in and even hilary called him "she" i cant take this

​@@SnakeButtzi think that she accidentally got caught up with the interviewers way of referring to brandon, since she corrected herself right after. im trans and even i do that sometimes lol

Why cringe? She was a biological female.

​@@TransformersTalkRAWI think what's cringe is lack of respect for what others believe they are or what they believe in. But also, as a trans man myself, it's understandable that not everyone will or needs to conform to the beliefs of others. People can call me a woman if it makes themselves feel better, it also doesn't bother me cause there's nothing wrong with it.

diy world wide he was a trans guy,and he keeps saying she instead of he

That's not a wig though? This was a year later, her hair has grown since then..