
It’s incredibly intimate, so when they see you in person, it’s almost like you just went through together.” Whereas televisions used to be in living rooms, now “we’re in the bedrooms and maybe even on the toilet with them. The actress likens this anecdote to how people experience Transparent. I woke up, turned on my computer and Laura Dern’s face was staring at me.” Hoffmann ran into her Wild co-star later that very day. basically naked under the covers.” Though Hoffmann normally shuns computers in the boudoir, she once fell “asleep watching Enlightened. Hoffmann thinks “there’s something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now. “Jeffery picked up the cue immediately and said, ‘Did he just call me sir? This is over.’” When you watch this “accident,” it so perfectly represents the family, “you’d think it was completely orchestrated.” We went on and on and on and on.” An ad-libbing actor playing the photographer even mistakenly mis-gendered Maura. Take the four-minute shot that opens Season 2-the Pfefferman clan poses for a wedding portrait that began as “a one-line moment in the script.” Soloway decided to just let the camera roll “and everybody said whatever the hell he or she was saying. Creator Jill Soloway sets a tone of “I don’t know what needs to happen right now because we’ve never been here before,” says Hoffmann.

To prepare, we chatted with the 33-year-old actress and new mother-who, unlike her character, is sweet and bracingly normal-at SoHo’s Crosby Street Hotel. What promises to be a spectacularly emotional Season 2 premieres this Friday. Though Hoffmann didn’t ultimately win for her role as the awkward and reckless Ali Pfefferman, Transparent picked up five Emmy Awards, and has been nominated for three more Golden Globes as well. Transparent reflects today’s culture with its of-the-moment subject matter-the messy fallout in the Pfefferman family after patriarch ( Jeffery Tambor) transitions from Mort to Maura-and the ensemble cast’s portrayal of modern dysfunction.


Return to acting and land a juicy part-and an Emmy nomination-in Amazon’s critically acclaimed dramedy, Transparent. Trade moppet-hood for a run at normalcy and college. Become an adorable, in-demand child actor alongside leading men like Kevin Costner (Field of Dreams) and Tom Hanks (Sleepless in Seattle). Spend a childhood roller-skating the hallways of New York’s iconic Chelsea Hotel. What does it take to be part of the zeitgeist-like actress Gaby Hoffmann-for three decades? Be born to Viva, an Andy Warhol superstar.
