Izzard as female reimagining of Dr Jekyll, anyone ?

I remember him talking about how bad his make up was in the early days and how once he had money he hired a make-up artist and learned how to do it properly. Maybe he did his own hair as well.

I have always been rubbish at makeup. He definitely did talk about how rubbish his look was at one stage.

Whatever the reason, casting a famously androgynous actor such as Izzard just muddies the waters, or was done to make some sort of statement, although I'm not sure what statement that would be.

My bet, now, is that Dr Jekyll is a female and Hyde is still Mr Hyde, a male.
So the Dr has to combat 'her' evil male side and, no doubt, triumph as a wonderful woman - just like Izzard.

I think that is a definite possibility. If so, and if menstruation, pregnancy or menopause come into it in any way, I might go along and throw tomatoes at the stage!

I’ll heckle from the back Doodledog.

You’ll heckle Jekyll, Kate?

As it's a film I doubt you'll have any effect.

As it’s a film, it won’t make any difference. The casting has achieved what it wanted- publicity.
The ludicrousness of saying you’ve written a female role and casting a male remains exactly that.

Ha I remember our tiny cinema where they changed reels mid film. We used to regularly heckle the hilarious local adverts.

They were great weren’t they!
Curry Houses and Car Mechanics.

I saw The Exorcist at our local flea pit when I was 14. That was a mistake and a half

It took our local cinema three attempts to screen Evita.

On the third consecutive night, the audience was all but wielding pitchforks and bearing torches.