Press materials for new indie comedy “Lazy Susan” stress “The character of Susan is a cisgender woman,” apparently for fear that viewers might otherwise assume star Sean Hayes is playing a transgen…
Press materials for new indie comedy “Lazy Susan” stress “The character of Susan is a cisgender woman,” apparently for fear that viewers might otherwise assume staris playing a transgender person. The fact that he’s not underlines this movie’s very fragile raison d’être: It’s supposed to be funny simply that a man in a dress and wig is portraying a “real” woman. Can that be funny? Well, sure.
Hayes’ 40-ish Susan is a self-absorbed single scraping by on unemployment, with no immediate job prospects and none sought. Though we eventually learn she’s something of a math whiz, and has a photographic memory for academic esoterica, she doesn’t seem interested in anything but sleeping, shopping, creating magazine-image collages, and hanging out with married friend Corrin .
Though Susan does not seem particularly interested in men — or anyone — she nonetheless brightens upon realizing that newly-met acquaintance Phil may harbor romantic feelings for her. Their courtship is swift, but it comes as no surprise when Prince Charming turns out a cad. Meanwhile, she and Corrin are rehearsing for a talent show they’re certain will make them stars.
The “Big Momma” and Madea franchise aside, drag comedies have been an infrequent visitor to the screen in recent years, not even in the crossdressing-as-plot-device vein of high-end “Tootsie” or lowbrow “The Hot Chick.” It no longer seems inherently riotous to see a dude passing as female; even frat humor has moved on.
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