This thesis attempts to understand how the fantasy of Jackson’s femininity is produced through the clash of these two racially divergent figures. These films position two vastly different Amy Jacksons: the on-screen Indian and the off-screen westerner. I will focus my analysis on a recurring reference to Jackson’s characters as “the white chick” in two of Jackson’s more recent Tamil films, Thangamagan (2015) and Gethu (2016). More baffling are the recurrent in-film references to Jackson’s Tamil characters as White. Despite her Caucasian background, Jackson is nativised for these roles, her skin spray-tanned, her hair dyed, and her blue eyes hidden behind dark-brown contact lenses. Since Liverpool local Amy Jackson’s debut in 2010, where she played a young British woman in the Tamil period-drama Madrasapattinam, Jackson has played exclusively Tamil/Indian characters in all of her films.
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