I feel that, and am down with it even though it's not my personal reaction. I'm more critical of the bafflement people have towards the question of representation at all—I want to say why it's important to consider, which I don't see a whole lot of.

I might have less of an issue with it if there were a longer history of trans people playing *anyone* in movies.

I think that's kind of limited, actor wise. People cross genders all the time, and anyone moderately androgynous could probably pull it off—depending on what's being looked for. I mean, this movie has a vision of what Lili looks like, but it didn't really *have* to be that. Besides, transitioning is a long process…

Why would it look any weirder having someone already transitioned than someone who hasn't/isn't/won't transition at all?

IV had a line in his TIFF review that got cut, which is a bummer because I think it was my fave line in all their coverage:

I'll take all the egg on my face and make Louie an apology-quiche, I promise

Lori Maddox was a groupie at 14, "lost her virginity" to David Bowie and then was basically kidnapped by Jimmy Page.

At the top of the game now, married at the time of the incident, iirc. I'm just not seeing a coherent alternative to Louie.

I didn't say it should or would change anybody else's opinion. "Evidence" is a murky category, especially for stuff like this. But people want to talk about this like it's wild, in-the-dark speculation, and I don't think it is.

That's fine, I guess—I mean, I get it. But I just don't think it's fair to claim conclusive falsehood against people claiming conclusive truth. My stance on this is it's something to look out for w/r/t Louie, to put a pin in holding him up as some leftist icon.

I wouldn't call that "definitive."

People still work with Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, David Bowie . . .

I can't find a source on her saying it wasn't him.

Aziz's show came way later. As in just now. The French-filmmaker thing? That's as close to definitive as we're going to get. "At this point" places the unnamed comedian's success in the present, not Seinfeld's far off experimentation. As for Patton Oswalt, not a filmmaker.

I know this isn't the sort of evidence you're looking for, but I know some people in comedy and they say it's basically understood that Louie is a creep and that the story's true. Idk if that convinces you, but in my life there's more evidence than the Gawker article and Jen Kirkman's blind item.

Wait wait wait—ORION PICTURES?

"endemic to pop culture coverage" A+

I thought that was a still from "Mutant Chronicles." Having read the article, MC still seems more adventurous.

Explanation.

The hed got me