Questions many people have asked:
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When can I get the video/DVD of the movie? It is available for order from Amazon.com:
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What were the songs in the film? Did you really perform them? Yes, I actually performed those and many more. You can see some of my act in the video "Conversation with Calpernia".
Consequences of Falling - KD Lang
The main songs in the movie were:
#1 Crush - Garbage (Baz Luhrman Remix)
Save Me - KD Lang
Still Thrives This Love - KD Lang
Cold - Annie Lennox
Dreamer - Toni Childs (* This was supposed to be the theme song of the film, but it didn't make it in. Check it out... it's very haunting and beautiful. You can listen by clicking Here and scrolling down to preview. It's not like any of her other songs, and is really the only song I like on the album)
- How real was the movie? How close to actual events? The
movie was very accurate, based on my cooperation with the writer, director,
actors and producers. The writer, Ron Nyswaner, also did a lot of research
with recordings from the trial, and visited the main places where things
happened in Nashville. A very few things were changed to move the story along...
some names, a few composite characters, etc. And I must state for the record
that I did not actually live in a trailer. Other than that, the movie was
very close to reality.
- Are you in the movie? No, I was offered
a part, but I didn't want my first movie role to be in this film.
- Isn't "Soldier's Girl" just a way
for you to make money and try to be famous off of a tragedy in your life? Surprisingly
to me, some people have asked this question. I offered to work on SG
for free, although I was eventually compensated a small amount for my
consulting. It was never my goal to make money from the movie, and I
do not make money from it now. "Soldier's Girl" is owned by Showtime,
and sales of the movie as well as control of how and when it's shown
are all properties of Showtime. As
for "fame," the
people who ask this question probably imagine a situation quite different
from the reality. The true results of being so well known are that I
will never be able to live in complete stealth and will always have most
of my life story at the fingertips of anyone curious enough to browse
the internet. For most transsexual women, the whole process of transition
is about starting over fresh in a life where people aren't prejudiced
by information from the past, but for me this will never be possible;
movie or no movie, the newspapers and media outlets made sure that the
story is forever archived on the web and in libraries. So I decided to
embrace the attention and clarify my true story with this webpage and
interviews, but in terms of benefits, this "fame" has
been a white elephant. I'd give back any and everything that
has happened since July 4th, 1999, if it would undo the tragedy of that
night.
- When did "Soldier's Girl" come out? It
premiered at Sundance on January 20th, 2003. It then went on to other film
festivals before premiering May 31, 2003 on Showtime. See my Sundance/Soldier's
Girl diary entry for that day or www.sho.com for
more details.
- Will it be on the Sundance channel? When will
it be in theaters? I'm not sure at all about the Sundance
Channel. It's possible. For a movie to be shown in theaters, a distributor
has to purchase the movie from Showtime (and it ain't cheap!) and then
pay to have copies of the film made (film is like $100 a foot, and runs
about 32 inches per second for an almost 2 hour movie, times however
many theaters will be showing it) and then they have to pay for a million
other costs... this is all the usual, normal thing for films, so it's
not an impossible dream, but the reason anyone in Hollywood does anything
is because they think it will make them money (the same reason you go
to your job)... "Soldier's Girl" is a risky film, not quite
as universal as "Aladdin" or "My Big Fat Greek Wedding",
so they have to weigh all that carefully. Of course, gay films are rising
in popularity, and have a built in cult market and a super loyal fanbase
(non-heteros and TS/TG people), so it can pay off in its own way. But
now you have an idea of the struggle. If it doesn't get picked up for
theatrical distribution, it will still play on Showtime to 18,000,000
- 20,000,000 households. And that ain't small potatoes.
- Did Lee Pace (the actor who portrayed you) have real breasts? No, Lee's breasts in the movie were expertly crafted and applied silicone prosthetics. A new set were made for each day. In the mini-documentary that showed after the film, there was a brief shot of them being removed from Lee's chest.