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Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.00,0:00:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Murray Schisgal ..
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.00,0:00:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mm..who's been my dear friend for over 30 years
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.00,0:00:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,er..kicked off TOOTSIE with the thought of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.00,0:00:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how would you be different if you had been born a woman
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.00,0:00:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a conversation we had one time
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.00,0:00:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not what is it feel like to be a woman
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.00,0:00:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cause at all sexes have asked themselves the question
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.00,0:00:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is it feel like to be, what would it feel to be like the opposite sex
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.00,0:00:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but his question was different
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.00,0:00:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if..if you..if you were born a woman
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.00,0:00:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,..how would you be different?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.00,0:00:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that kicked off, which is..um..it would take too long to answer
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.00,0:00:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we then got involved in TOOTSIE for..
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.00,0:00:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,..for about 2 years before we even got it directed
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.00,0:00:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,..just working on different drafts of the script
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.00,0:00:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I did go to Columbia and I asked them if they would
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.00,0:00:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spend the money to do make-up tests
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.00,0:00:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that..
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.00,0:01:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could look like a woman. And if I couldn't look like a woman
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.00,0:01:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would agree not to make the movie.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.00,0:01:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they say: "what do you mean?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.00,0:01:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just somehow intuitively felt that unless I could walk down
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.00,0:01:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the streets of New York and not have..err..dressed as a woman..
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.00,0:01:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,..and not have people turned and said: "who's that guy in drag?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.00,0:01:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or turned for any reason,..that..you know.."who's that freak?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.00,0:01:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless I could do that, I didn't want to make the film
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.00,0:01:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't want to make the audience to suspend their..their..their..
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.00,0:01:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their..their believability. When we got to that point
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.00,0:01:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and looked at it on screen, I was shocked that I wasn't more attractive
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.00,0:01:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said: "now you have me looking like a woman, ..now make me a beautiful woman.."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.00,0:01:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I thought I should be beautiful
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.00,0:01:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I was going to be a woman
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.00,0:01:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would want to be as beautiful as possible
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.00,0:01:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they said to me
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.00,0:01:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's as..
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.00,0:01:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,..good as it gets..
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.00,0:01:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,er..
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.00,0:01:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's as beautiful as we can get you
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.00,0:01:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,..ahahah..
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.00,0:01:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...Charlie!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.00,0:02:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was at that moment that I had an epiphany
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.00,0:02:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I went home, started crying..er.. talking to my wife
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.00,0:02:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said: I have to make this picture
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.00,0:02:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she said: why?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.00,0:02:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said: because, I think I'm an interesting woman
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.00,0:02:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,..when I looked at myself on screen, and I know that if I met myself at a party
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.00,0:02:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would never talk to her, that character, because..
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.00,0:02:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she doesn't fulfill, physically, the demands
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.00,0:02:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we're brought up to think
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.00,0:02:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have..women have to have
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.00,0:02:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order for us to ask them out..
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.00,0:02:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she said: "what are you saying?"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.00,0:02:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said: "there's too many interesting women I have..
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.00,0:02:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,..I have..
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.00,0:02:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I..I have
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.00,0:02:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not had the experience to know in this life..
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.00,0:02:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I have..
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.00,0:02:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,..been brainwashed.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.00,0:02:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ..
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.00,0:03:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was never a comedy for me!