Cultural appropriation straight, cis-gender actors in trans acting roles, such as when Eddie Redmayne played the role of artist Lili Elbe in the film "The Danish Girl" and when Jared Leto played the role of a trans woman named Rayon in "Dallas Buyers Club". The gay community has expressed concerns about the use of straight actors to play gay characters; this occurs in films such as "Call Me by Your Name" (straight actors Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet), "Brokeback Mountain" (Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal), "Philadelphia" (starring Tom Hanks), "Capote" (starring Philip Seymour Hoffman) and "Milk" (with Sean Penn playing the role
Maggie Gyllenhaal "Margalit" () is a Hebrew word meaning "pearl"; some news stories have spelled it "Margolit". She has one sibling, actor Jake Gyllenhaal. Her father is a film director and poet, and her mother is a screenwriter and director. Her father, a member of the Gyllenhaal family, is of Swedish and English ancestry, and was raised in the Swedenborgian religion. Her last native Swedish ancestor was her great-great-grandfather Anders Leonard Gyllenhaal, a descendant of Leonard Gyllenhaal, a leading Swedenborgian who supported the printing and spreading of Swedenborg's writings. Her mother was born in New York City (growing up in Brooklyn), and