Tonight he finds himself back in Wales for the first of three dates at Cardiff International Arena with his Stripped tour. I didn’t really run for about eight days. “It wasn’t as bad as I thought it might be,” he says. How long did it take him to recover from the feat? Izzard recently completed 43 marathons in 51 days for Sport Relief on a route which took him back to parts of Wales where he grew up Neath, Porthcawl and Swansea. “And I just ran 43 marathons, which is not a terribly girlie thing to do.” “I was going to join the Army when I was younger. “The thing is, if you are a straight transvestite like me, you have all this boy stuff going on – mainly boy stuff in fact – as well as the girly stuff. “If I wanted to, I could throw on a dress right now and if I went out in the street and people insulted me, then I would insult them back. I’ve been in boy mode for the last few years, but I know I can be in girl mode if I want to.
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“I insist and I beg people to believe it on TV (interviews) and I never thought that I would be on TV begging people to believe I’m a transvestite. “I tell everyone I’m a transvestite over and over again,” he says, baffled by the flipped logic of the situation. “I believed that if I had turned up for the auditions for The Riches or Valkyrie in make up and a dress, I would not get the roles,” he says.īut as a result, the flip side of this approach is that the Eddie Izzard America knows is perhaps a less colourful character than the one we cherish here, although he certainly isn’t hiding himself.
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He landed the lead role in HBO series The Riches, as well as film roles alongside the likes of Tom Cruise in Valkyrie. While cultivating his film and TV career in Los Angeles he made the decision to tone down his wardrobe, and the strategy has served him well. He talks to Gavin Allen about strategic transvestitism and the potential of arena comedy.ĮDDIE Izzard has been in ‘boy mode’ so long that America can hardly believe he’s a transvestite.