Eddie Redmayne: Playing Transgender Character in ‘The Danish Girl’ Was a ‘Mistake’
Actor Eddie Redmayne has expressed regret about his Oscar-nominated role in “The Danish Girl,” saying that playing a transgender character was a “mistake.”
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17 Classic Film Roles That May Not Have Been Possible in Today’s PC Hollywood
For the past several years, there has been a strong push from the PC brigade to have film or television characters’s sexuality or personality traits exactly reflected in the actors who portray them.
Transgender Film ‘The Danish Girl’ Banned in Qatar
Transgender-themed Oscar favorite “The Danish Girl” has been pulled from cinemas in Qatar after the film failed to clear the country’s censor board.
Qatar Bans Sex Change Film ‘The Danish Girl’
Qatar has banned “The Danish Girl” movie — about an artist who undergoes one of the world’s first sex changes and which stars Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne — from cinemas, officials announced Monday. The move follows protests online about the “depravity”
White House Honors LGBT ‘Champions of Change’ with Transgender Movie Night
The White house announced that it will hold a screening of the upcoming transgender drama “The Danish Girl” and Amazon’s transgender series “Transparent” next week as part of its new “White House LGBT Artists Champions of Change” program.
GLAAD Takes on Hollywood: Gays ‘Butt of Joke’
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has released an online video campaign highlighting what it claims is the unfair treatment of LGBT characters in major Hollywood films.
Weinstein Co. Cancels Transgender Drama ‘About Ray’ 3 Days Before Release
The Weinstein Company has pulled transgender drama About Ray three days before its scheduled September 18 US release date.
Transgender Hitman Thriller Being Shopped at Toronto Film Fest
With a string of high-profile, transgender-themed movies and television shows hitting silver screens and airwaves across America, 2015 is shaping up to be the year that transgender entertainment entered the mainstream.
‘Danish Girl’ Producer Says ‘Timing Couldn’t Have Been Better’ For Transgender Film
With transgender characters and themes growing more prevalent in TV and film, the upcoming biopic The Danish Girl, starring Eddie Redmayne as one of the first known recipients of gender realignment surgery, isn’t just a part of a fad, according to one of its co-producers.
WATCH: Eddie Redmayne Transforms into Woman in ‘The Danish Girl’ Trailer
The first trailer for transgender drama The Danish Girl has been released online. In The Danish Girl, Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) plays Lili Elbe (born Einar Wegener), a turn-of-the-century painter who became one of the first documented recipients of gender
First Look: Eddie Redmayne Transforms into Transgender Artist for ‘The Danish Girl’
Academy Award-winner Eddie Redmayne will look to take home his second golden statuette in two years when he plays transgender artist Lili Elbe in this year’s upcoming film The Danish Girl.
