Eddie Izzard's Decision Not to Transition | Joe Rogan

Now, do you take hormones or anything? No, no, but I could, I could transition. But then I've got these boy genetics going on in me. I really think it's genes. I think they're going to find out how it works, but I can't prove that at the moment. But if I transition over, then I'll just be on the other side of this kind of fence that we give ourselves. And I've decided, okay, I'm gender fluid. I'm just going to have like a superhero, boy mode and girl mode. Like the human torch can go flame on, flame off. So I'm going boy. When do you decide some days today on boy mode? I can, but I tend to do sort of block periods now. But when I campaign, I'm in girl mode, but I'm doing films, dramatic films. I'm in boy mode, unless I play the transgender character. Do you have to think about it? Not really, no. But it's easier for me to be in girl mode, because then if I can deal with that, some people stare at you and I have a confidence now. I carry myself with a certain confidence. They go, oh, he seems to be quite confident. So I'll just relax about that. And I can actually, I can control other people's embarrassment. Because if they don't know what to do, I'd say, hi, how are you? Can I have a cup of tea? Oh, yeah, well, we sell tea. Oh, no, that's why you're here. Oh, no, okay. So I can just relax people by just chatting to them. And then boy mode's quite easy for me to do, because I just go boy mode. Just be yourself. And I scrub up quite well in boy mode. Do you have, but you've given thought to transitioning? Yeah. Yeah. But part of me wants to be Steve McQueen in The Great Escape. Part of me wants to be Elizabeth Taylor looking like her in a cat in a hot tin roof. Who's a food of Virginia Woolf? No, in a cat in a hot tin roof, more like, which I just saw on the plane yesterday. Oh, okay. So these are the two looks I go between. And I go, well, I kind of both of them. And as a kid, I thought, can't I look more like Clint, Steve McQueen? Because I kind of fascinated with Steve McQueen, and he went through to get to where he was. And he was so driven. I don't know if you know about this, the Steve McQueen story. You know that he was in a film with Paul Newman, and he was like 93rd on the list of credits. Someone up there likes me. If you watch it, you can see him. There's a knife fight between Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. And he's like a heavy, you know, young thug, kind of heavy guy. But he's just a small player. And then the second film he's in with him is Tearing Inferno, where they are equal billing. And I think Paul Newman is first, and Steve McQueen is higher. If you look at the names on the poster, Paul Newman comes in from the left. So his name is first, and Steve McQueen is on the right, but higher than Paul Newman. That's how they got that equal billing. How do you put equal billing if you're going to start reading from the left? Right. And if you remember the film, they come at it as two guys. You say, yeah, they're both decent guys. Yeah, these are both heroes.