Film: Movie star Giuseppe Schisano to change sex and be called 'Vittoria'

Rome, 23 Nov. (AKI) - Italian film actor Giuseppe Schisano will soon change sex and be called Vittoria.

"My soul is one of a woman. I feel more normal," he said during an interview with Adnkronos.

"I couldn't eat or sleep. Just looking at myself in the mirror bothered me," he said. Slowly I came out to my friends.," he said.

The native of Naples is taking hormones and must undergo psychological therapy before his sex-change operation, but he says he is literally a woman trapped inside a man's body.

"When I went to the doctor to start the hormone therapy that precedes the operation, the doctor was surprised that I wasn't already taking the hormones. My levels showed that my female hormones were higher than my male ones," he said.

"In reality I always felt a strong feminine side that I hid for years."

In his latest film "Cane Pazzo," or "Crazy Dog," which is in post production, Schisano, 30, must hide his femininity to play the main role of a macho journalist obsessed by his research into a serial killer.