The British actor, who received the Oscar for best actor for his role in A wonderful story time , was transformed physically to interpret a woman in The Danish Girl by Tom Hooper.
Eddie Redmayne will play a woman … The Danish Girl directed by Tom Hooper. Specifically, the actor will play the Danish painter Einar Wegener, the first transsexual to have undergone gender reassignment surgery in the 1930s The script will focus on the love story of Lili Elbe – the new name for Wegener – and his wife Gerda. The latter, portraitist, convinced him to wear women’s clothes to replace a model that had failed him. Since that time, Einar Wegener began to change.
After interpreting physicist Stephen Hawking in the film A wonderful story time , for which he received the Oscar for best actor Eddie Redmayne is again offers a role against type to undergoing an impressive physical transformation. Asked by the Daily Mail , the actor said he “observed meticulously female behavior.” To play Lili Elbe, he trained with choreographer Alexandra Reynolds, who had already helped to interpret the British scientist.
“We had to be careful at all feminine details,” continues Redmayne. “It’s a genuine love of history and identity-related. This is the most sensitive role I’ve played so far. “To perfect his role, the actor spoke with several transsexuals. “The dangers of surgery were very high at the time. It was very brave of Einar. “The artist died in 1931 of complications from graft rejection uterus after being operated for the fifth time.
The Danish Girl , directed by Tom Hooper ( The King’s Speech , Les Misérables ), will be released in cinemas in 2016. Together with Eddie Redmayne, we will find actresses Amber Heard and Alicia Vikander and the Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts
Eddie Redmayne plays the Danish painter Einar Wegener, The Danish Girl Photo credits: Working Title Television
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