Rayon in Dallas Buyers’ Club (2013)
Jared Leto won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Rayon, a transgender woman who is a crucial part of the story of Ronald Woodruff, a real person (played by Matthew McConaughey in the film) who started a “buyers club” in the 1980s that distributed AIDS treatments to people in need.
But there was no actual Rayon. Screenwriters Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack interviewed “transgender AIDS patients, activists and doctors for the film,” according to TIME, and used those interviews to create the composite characters of Rayon and Dr. Eve Saks (Jennifer Garner).
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