Eddie Redmayne's casting in 'The Danish Girl' attracted criticism at the time, though his performance earned him an Oscar nomination.
, Redmayne acknowledged that “there has been years of cisgender success on the back of trans stories.”trans actors and trans actresses playing trans parts, but also cisgender parts,” he said. “And I hope — as an actor one hopes — that one should be able to playStory continues below advertisement, Redmayne noted that Hooper had struggled to finance “The Danish Girl” before he signed on as Lili.
Redmayne’s proven success with “The Theory of Everything” earned potential financiers’ trust. But by the time of the interview, Redmayne considered it all to have been a “complicated experience,” given that he agreed with some of the eventual backlash to his playing a trans woman.“I learned a lot and I met extraordinary people,” he said, “and I still haven’t necessarily reconciled whether it was the right thing to do.
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