Judging from the gorgeous trailer for The Danish Girl, it won’t be a surprise if freckle-faced heartthrob Eddie Redmayne continues his award-winning best actor reign. The 33-year-old thespian, who numerous awards for his compelling turn as Stephen Hawking in last year’s The Theory of Everything, returns to the screen in another real-life role. This time he headlines as Lili Elbe, the Danish painter born Einar Wegener and considered one of the world’s first trans women and who underwent the first gender reassignment surgery in 1930. The dramatic love story, adapted from the book by David Ebershoff, opens in New York and Los Angeles on November 27, and in additional cities in December. We can’t wait!
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Watch Eddie Redmayne Become The Exquisite Lili In The Danish Girl
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Tobi
The Danish Girl? I thought it’d be about a bulimic bingeing on pastries.
Peter McKinney
He’s going to be great in this. Can’t wait to see it.
dre23222
I want to see this.. looks amazing!!! Cinematography.
Billy Budd
Looks awesome and very convincing.
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“This time he headlines as Lili Elbe, the Danish painter born Einar Wegener and considered one of the world’s first trans women and who underwent the first gender reassignment surgery in 1930.”
No! No! No! Queerty! We are born trans; born with the gender identity that some disclose as early as we can speak, but may have been strongly suspected by our families even earlier. People have been born trans for thousands of years; probably as long as there have been humans. How can you possibly be so utterly clueless as to think someone in the 1930s could be THE FIRST TRANS WOMAN”? Did you arrive ast that by thinking we can only be women by surgery? Did you think that all of us before her were just drag queens or cross dressers?
There have been trans women recorded, and having surgery, in India and the middle east for hundreds of years. The 19th century colonial government put into law that they were a “criminal tribe”. People in Roman times are recorded as doing surgery and living as women permanently thereafter. A grave of one, buried in womens clothes and magnificent jewellery, in northern England was uncovered in the 1950s. The Abrahamic religions came doiwn hard on us but elsewhere – in South Asia, the Pacific, the Americas until those faiths impacted – trans people were constantly present and often respected. There are numerous examples in western society as those faiths started to wane too; 18th & 19th century court & police records reveal many having to survive by sex work. 22year-old Stella Boulton was tried in Englands highest court in 1871, & acquitted, as the government attempted to have dressing as a woman whilst male made illegal as was being done in the US and many other countries at the time – surely evidence that we were noticable! They were unable to prove she dressed as a woman to solicit sex. Her mother testified she had always been like a girl, and her mother had given her dresses. Pictures show that when dressed as a boy she still looked like a girl. She had a soprano voice.
Lili Elbe was just someone who persuaded some surgeons to experiment on her. Unsuccessfully, because she died as a result. A novelist then thought that made a romantic subject. There are many better examples.
Daggerman
..it’s obvious that Eddie Redmayne will become one of the new age greats of British actors like Laurence Olivier.