Eddie Izzard has declared she would have been "murdered" for being transgender if she'd lived in Nazi Germany.
The comedian/actor, 59, stars in a new thriller called Six Minutes To Midnight which set in 1939 shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.
She went public with her decision to use female pronouns last year and has been open about living in "girl mode" as a trans woman.
Speaking about her experiences, she reflected on her new film role and admitted she would have been killed for being so open if she'd lived in Germany through that time period.
Eddie told Sky News : "I consider being trans a superhero thing – I wanted to put it in a very positive light with superheroes because some people are so negative about LGBT stuff.
"I've been out and open about it since 1985, it's a long time... And if we go back to the 1930s, if I've been in Nazi Germany, I would have been murdered for saying that I was trans.
"Gay people were put in concentration camps. That's what this extreme right-wing thinking will do."
Eddie previously opened up about her life as a trans woman during an appearance on Simon Thomas' Life, Interrupted podcast - explaining she sees herself as having lived in both "boy mode" and "girl mode".
She told the host: "Your biological body [can give] different signals as to how it is in the brain, but I do feel gender fluid – I have got boy genetics and girl genetics, so I call it boy mode and girl mode.
"These may not be great phrases but I can't think of better words. Man mode and woman mode doesn't sound good so I'm going with those at the moment, but language can change over the years.
"I am gender fluid, I do seem to be a mixture, but I’m now based in girl mode as a trans woman.
"And now that pronouns have come out [it] feels like a promotion, I’m very happy with that."
