# Prince of Persia and "blackface"

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 18, 2010, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-of-persia-and-blackface/539851 "2010-05-18T02:11:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-of-persia-and-blackface/539851/81 "2010-05-30T22:19:36Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> “Yeah, and Hilary Swank has a vagina, and she won an Oscar pretending she has a dick. That’s what actors do. They pretend.”  
> -Ari Gold, Entourage

This isn’t really correct, though. Hilary Swank in _Boys Don’t Cry_ wasn’t playing a male character. She was playing a biologically female character who wanted to be an FTM transsexual and “passed” as a male as far as external appearance went.

Mary Martin as Peter Pan may have won a Tony pretending she had a dick, but Hilary Swank in _Boys Don’t Cry_ won an Oscar pretending to be somebody with a vagina who **wished** she had a dick.

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