Post 5 Lucinda Coxon

Lucinda Coxon is mostly a playwright, but she has written for a few movies. One movie she wrote the screenplay for was “The Danish Girl”, which you may have seen at the last Oscars. Basically, the movie is based on an old book about a man in the 1920s who identifies as a female, and as a result goes through identity and psychological dramas with himself and the government. Eventually he and his friend meet a doctor who gives him the first gender reassignment surgery which he, or she at this point, dies from. This movie both passes the Bechdel test and is important for the trans-gendered community because now there is a mainstream movie about their cause and historical prosecution. At one point the main character actually gets admitted to an asylum for his identification.

Lucinda Coxon is mostly a playwright and approaches the few movies she does write for in similar manner as she would a play. In an interview with Awards Daily about “The Danish Girl”, she states “… I think that the theater was really quite a big part of my writing process with this project.”. And as for her play-writing, she finds her talent in practice. In an interview with Script Magazine she was asked if she had advice for aspiring writers, to which she replied “Well, I just wrote and wrote… little plays that were produced in rooms above pubs in London. And eventually, I got better at it. And got noticed.”. Practice does make perfect. She is an very prolific writer having written at least 17 plays. It can be assumed that her work is generally liked because she has won a fair amount of screenplay awards.