TRANSPOWER: CANDIS CAYNE PARTIES FOR DIRTY SEXY MONEY

Candis Cayne at the Dirty Sexy Money Edison
Bldg. event. Images courtesy of Zimbio and ABC



Candis Cayne and Natalia Zea at the Dirty Sexy Money Edison Bld.
event. Image courtesy of Hollywood Life and ABC

Candis Cayne partied it up last Monday September 8th 2009 at the Edison building in Downtown L.A. for the Dirty Sexy Money Season 1 DVD launch party.

Ms. Cayne (born Brendan McDaniel) rose to fame as a premiere female impersonator/cabaret performer in NYC at weekly shows hosted with her husband DJ Marco. You can contact Ms. Cayne via her Myspace page.

Last year, in an interview for Homo Xtra, a gay entertainment guide based in NY city, Candis stated -

How did you get involved in the upcoming ABC drama series, Dirty Sexy Money?

Patricia Field was the costume designer for the pilot and actually recommended me for the role! I play Billy Baldwin's character's mistress, and every time you see her she's either in her bedroom or in a hotel room- wearing Louboutin. I thought I was maybe going to be in it for a couple episodes, but the writers must be getting a good response, because they've put me in four more episodes so far and keep writing new scenes for my character. It's a dream for me.

Were you intimidated by Billy (William Baldwin)?

Totally. But when I met him at the table read, he was like, "Candis! Give me a hug!" He was so relaxed and not awkward. He later asked a lot about my relationship with Marco, because his character is sort of in the same situation. A lot of people have weird notions that I'm gay or that people who date me are gay, but he got it and was really into it. Well, not into it, but...

Is it true that your voice was digitally lowered for the pilot episode in post-production?

Yes, but if they want to lower my voice for shock value, fine. They asked me to lower my voice, but I couldn't bring myself to do something that was completely unnatural for me. It's really important for me as a trans actress to be in situations that I'm comfortable with, because there's a lot of weird stuff thrown at trans actresses that we'd never do.

So you have to pick your battles, because there are trannies with lower voices, but no tranny would ever stand to pee, for example. As soon as that happened in Transamerica the movie lost me.

With my role in CSI: NY earlier this year, they had a lot of stuff like that written in-like going into a men's room-and I said, "I won't do that because I would never do it in real life." That part was originally written for a drag queen, but I auditioned and I snatched. I snatched!

Isn't Dirty Sexy Money the first time that a trans actress has played a recurring trans character on television?

I think so! The first recurring trans character was on Ugly Betty, but Rebecca Romjin's a woman—which is better than a man playing it! I'm just happy the media is really starting to embrace us, and I'm happy to be working again. After I started transitioning, I stopped working for nearly 10 years.

I couldn't go out for the drag roles because I was too womanly, and I couldn't go out for the woman roles because there's a gay guy in every single goddamn casting who'd be like, "She's a man!" It's always the gays spooking you. But now I think it's the year of the tranny. It's finally my year!

Interview snippets courtesy of Homo Xtra and Televisionista Blog

GOT TO HAVE IT!!!! ROBERTO CAVALLI FOR COKE LITE VS. PATRICIA FIELD FOR DIET COKE

Coke Lite bottles designed by Roberto Cavalli, image courtesy
of Coca Cola Italy

Here are the exclusive Coke Lite (Diet Coke) bottles designed by Roberto Cavalli. The bottles will only be available in Italy between September through December 2008, with a limited number of 300,000 bottles to be made. The bottles are designed with several animal prints, as per the signature Cavalli look.

Christina Santucci, a spokesperson for Coca-Cola Italy says:

"In every woman there’s a special spark that makes her unique and comes out unexpectedly every time she follows her instincts. It bowls over anyone who is watching her. This joint project with Roberto Cavalli aims to offer a collector’s version of the Coca-Cola light bottle, to appeal to women with a strong personality, who are extrovert, modern and like to experiment; women who love beauty, design, art and culture. We want to remind them to bring out the unique, authentic side to their character. Either through a Roberto Cavalli dress or by collecting a limited edition Coca-Cola light bottle designed by Roberto Cavalli."


Diet Coke bottles designed by Patricia Field,
image courtesy of Coca Cola

What do you think of Cavalli's Coke Lite designs compared to Patricia Field's Diet Coke designs? Ms. Field's designs were recently available for sale at Selfridges London. She states "The ‘diet Coke’ City Collection captures today's modern women, confidant, glamorous, sexy and more in charge of their own lives, and represents the areas of life that are most important to them such as: ‘career’, ‘passion’, ‘love’ and ‘fashion’." Each colored bottle has it's own meaning - red equals passion, gold bottle means career, the turquoise bottle represents fashion and the pink bottle stands for love.