Linda Hunt co-starred as Billy Kwan in movie,The Year of Living Dangerously. This is Peter Weir's film adaptation of the novel of the same name. For her role as the male Chinese-Australian photographer Billy Kwan, Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1983, becoming the first person to win an Oscar for playing a character of the opposite sex.

Also the character in the movie was Asian and had the condition of dwarfism. In her audition for the role, Hunt wore a hairpiece, a fake moustache, and "paste-on hair pieces above her eyes to appear Oriental". To perform the role in the film, Hunt shortened her hair and dyed it black, wore padding around her waist, shaved her eyebrows, and carried something in her shirt pocket which men normally do.

In a 1986 interview with the 'Bomb' magazine, Hunt remarked that Billy Kwan "is supra-personal with layers of sexual ambiguity."

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