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Eddie Redmayne & Laverne Cox At Special Screening Of Tom Hooper’s THE DANISH GIRL
Focus Features has released photos of Eddie Redmayne and Laverne Cox at a special screening of THE DANISH GIRL in New York this past Saturday night.
One of 2015’s must-see movies, THE DANISH GIRL is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, portrayed in the film respectively by Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) and Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina), directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech, Les Misérables).
The film opens in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, November 27th, and in additional cities in December.
Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Eddie Redmayne, Hannah Bagshawe
Eddie Redmayne, Cuba Gooding Jr.
In 1926 in Copenhagen, artist Einar Wegener is married to Gerda Wegener and is revered for landscape paintings. Gerda is also an artist, less renowned but steadily working as a portraitist of prominent citizens. Theirs is a strong and loving marriage, yet personal and professional epiphanies have eluded themboth.
That all begins to change one day when, on deadline for a portrait, Gerda asks her husband to fill in for a model by putting on a dress so that she canfinish the painting. The experience is transformative, as Einar soon realizes that being Lili is an expression of her truest self, and she begins living her life as a woman. Gerda unexpectedly finds that she has a new muse, and renewed creative ferment. But the couple soon brush up against society’s disapproval.
They leave their homeland for the more open-minded world of Paris. There, it is Gerda’s career that continues to flourish. The couple’s marriage evolves -and not without strain. But again and again Gerda supports Lili during her journey as a transgender woman. Through the other, each of them finds thecourage to be who they are at heart.
Director Tom Hooper says, “I can’t overemphasize how courageous she was to have the surgery at that time. This was before antibiotics, before penicillin, where the risks of infectionwere acute and the treatments were in their infancy and very dangerous. Lili was extraordinarily brave in facing these risks.”
Eddie Redmayne adds, “Her bravery is unlike anything I can imagine. One friend of mine described it as that Lili would give anything and everything to live a life authentic.”
Screenwriter Lucinda Coxon says, “It’s an honor to bring this story to a wider audience, back to the world’s consciousness.”
Principal photography on THE DANISH GIRL was completed in April 2015. Post-production was finished in September 2015, marking the culmination of the story’s 15-year odyssey to the screen.
Alicia Vikander says,”I don’t think anyone will walk out of the theater after seeing this movie not being touched by Lili’s journey. It’s a love story between two people but above all a love story of learning how to love yourself.”
Eddie Redmayne concludes, “Whilst this is a very specific story about a very specific woman undergoing her own journey to be herself, I feel like all of us have barriers put up infront of us. Do we confront them? Get rid of them? Or – worst-case scenario – live with them? The bravery and courage that it takes to be yourself shouldn’t be underestimated.”
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