It may have sounded outlandish when it was first reported last year, but now it appears true: Larry Wachowski, one of the two brothers who created and directed the “Matrix” franchise, is planning to go ahead with a sex-change operation.
Wachowski may not actually be the first acclaimed director to undergo the procedure; “Deer Hunter” and “Heaven’s Gate” helmer Michael Cimino was rumored a few years ago to have become a woman, although that was never confirmed and now appears false. At least Wachowski, as mega-successful filmmaker and won’t need to rob a bank in order to pay for the operation, a la “Dog Day Afternoon.”
I can’t imagine the “change” will affect Wachowski’s career in any way, though it certainly sheds further light on the brothers’ first film, the highly underrated lesbian heist flick “Bound.” Linda/Larry, at any rate, enters womanhood as Hollywood's most successful female director, which would be like converting to Catholicism and immediately becoming pope.
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