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...woman, in Transamerica, a low-budget indie film about a transsexual father's road trip with her newly discovered teenage prostitute son. If people thought it was brave of Nicole Kidman to endanger her glamour by wearing a big prosthetic nose or Charlize Theron to put on fake teeth, Huffman is going to get the silver star. In one scene, for longer and in larger form than you might enjoy, her penis is visible...
...Oscar talk is starting now," says Marc Cherry, creator and executive producer of Desperate Housewives, for which Huffman won an Emmy for playing an ad exec turned frustrated stay-at-home mom. "People are starting to use the O word with Felicity--which upsets me because it would mean we'll have to pay her more." The Transamerica role is indeed the kind of thing Oscar voters love: a lady who looks like a dude who looks like a lady. But the most impressive thing is how, a few minutes into the film, you stop noticing Huffman's external transformations...
...voice took an hour of practice to slip into each morning, so she stuck with it off camera all day. It was so convincing that Huffman's husband, actor William H. Macy, who served as a producer on the project, wouldn't take her calls during the day because it creeped him out. "My 2-year-old did cry when she saw me," said Huffman. "It's probably something she'll be talking about in therapy...
After years of a highly respected career just outside the public consciousness--as a member of David Mamet's ensemble at New York City's Atlantic Theater Company (where Matthew Fox and Jessica Alba were her students) and the female lead on Aaron Sorkin's failed sitcom Sports Night--Huffman, 43, is a star. "People in show business have been waiting for her to be a star for a long time," says Cherry. "She's so down to earth and humble, you get the feeling she doesn't see herself that...
...Winfrey; and Richard Branson on Airbus CEO Noël Forgeard--make their judgments with a cool eye, but others, like Lisa Marie Presley on Etheridge and the Rev. Billy Graham on John Stott, are surprisingly personal. Among my other favorites: Russell Simmons on Jay-Z; Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman on the show's creator, Marc Cherry; Bono on his good friend Jeffrey Sachs; and Tom Brokaw on Jon Stewart. Even political foes can make a good pair. James Carville on Karl Rove, anyone...