Charlize Theron came aboard to play Gerda, Elbe’s wife, while Anand Tucker, the filmmaker who adapted Steve Martin’s Shopgirl, joined to direct. The road started in 2008, when Nicole Kidman signed on to produce and star - as both the female Elbe and Einar, the pre-op male character. Producer Gail Mutrux happened to come across a review of the novel - “in November 1999,” she very specifically recalls, around the time she was working with Bill Condon on developing a script for the film that would become Kinsey - and optioned the film rights a few months later, the minute the book was published.īrad Pitt, Warner Bros Team to Adapt Sci-Fi YA Novel 'Illuminae' (Exclusive) But the book that has been adapted for the screen isn’t Elbe’s it’s David Ebershoff’s best-selling 2000 novel, The Danish Girl, a fictional interpretation of Elbe’s memoir. Man Into Woman, Elbe’s 1933 memoir, is something of a sacred text in the transgender community. Schoenaerts, who plays an art-dealer friend of Elbe’s. The image of Redmayne as Elbe that went viral in February. The minute I read it, I wanted to do it.” It reframed my notion of love, that love is not about gender or bodies. 27 by Focus Features, undergoes an even more extraordinary physical transformation than turning himself into Theory‘s Stephen Hawking (in one sure-to-get-noticed scene in The Danish Girl, Redmayne stands naked in front of a full-length mirror, his genitalia tucked between his thighs). “I knew the script had a long, tortured history,” says Redmayne, who, in The Danish Girl, which will be released Nov. Far from poison, the subject matter has reunited an award-winning director (before Les Miserables, Hooper won an Oscar for The King’s Speech) and an award-winning actor (after Les Miserables, Redmayne won one for The Theory of Everything) to finally bring to the screen the story of a transgender icon predating Caitlyn Jenner by nearly 100 years. newcomer Alicia Vikander) - became the first person in history to undergo a male-to-female sex reassignment surgery. And it’s hard to imagine a more hospitable moment than right now for a commercially viable movie based on the life of Lili Elbe, a Danish painter in the 1920s who - with the help of a supportive wife (played by Ex Machina and Man From U.N.C.L.E.
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