Jill Solloway (Photo : Twitter/Jill Solloway)
The recently concluded Time 100 gala event at the Lincoln Center did not recognize Bruce Jenner's story, but his gender transition journey inspired Jill Soloway's "Transparent."
"Transparent" is an Amazon program that revolves around a transgender characters' relationship with his own family, according to the New York Daily News.
Soloway, whose own father went through gender transition said, "There's a movement going on, a civil rights movement, and we happen to have found ourselves at the forefront of the movement"
The program creator also said that she feel he has the responsibility to show the world what being a transgender is and what it's really like living like one.
"I found myself with this mantle, which is a great responsibility. I want to get it right, We get a lot of guidance from the trans people in the world," she added.
Talking about the lead star of the Amazon program Jeffrey Tambor, Soloway said that the actor reminds her of her own transgender father.
"He reminds me so much of my parent, pre-transition. My parent had a lot in common with Jeffrey; there was never anybody else," she recounted.
Tambor, meanwhile, revealed how he immediately wanted to go board after just 15 minutes of reading the script.
"It's in the zeitgeist and it's very empowering. It's in the conversation, it's in the culture. The civil rights movement is now," he said.
Addtionally, "Orange is the New Black" star Laverne Cox revealed that she was on board with Solloway's program and said that she wanted to meet two celebrities on the show.
"I want to meet Misty Copeland and Audra McDonald," she told Confidenti@l in a recent interview.
