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15 Stars Who Nailed Gender Bending Roles

6. Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris took a gender bending role to the stage when he played an East German transgender glam rock singer in Broadway’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Neil has been openly gay since 2006. He admitted that the role was a challenging one. “Hedwig is bringing up a lot of super insecure things within me. I have never thought drag was intoxicating, I’ve never had a fun drunken Halloween in drag, never been in heels, really. I’ve lived my whole life being attracted by masculinity — it’s why I like guys. I’m not a super effete person, and I have to turn into that, and in doing so it brings up a lot of homophobic insecurities within myself.”

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