No Ordinary Man (2020) is indeed a documentary of jazz musician Billy Lee Tipton (December 29, 1914 – January 21, 1989), despite the film’s trailer showing actors auditioning to portray Tipton—including, rather unexpectedly, a Black actor. But these actors are indeed a part of how directors Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt have chosen to tell […]
