About Soliloquy
Adamo Macri : I cast Lola, a transgendered she-male, without meeting her, for a different project I'm currently developing entitled Armed. I was forewarned by a few who know her well that she was a strong and challenging personality to contend with, but it was clear in my mind that Lola was the only one for the part. It was when she arrived at the studio that I began to suspect that something other than Armed was going to happen. The critical moment occurred while getting acquainted with her during the makeup session before the photoshoot. It felt like I was speaking to someone who was contained within a body, the surface of which felt very much external, as if an eclipsed "other" was governing the physical being, over and above her uncanny presence as a kind of manufactured hybrid sexual object. I immediately thought of how it must have felt when Da Vinci first met La Gioconda, or when John Waters first saw Divine, or even when the concept of Frankenstein first popped into Mary Shelley's imagination. At that moment, it became clear to me that Soliloquy needed to be made.
