THAT FASCINATING DANISH GIRL
by chris carpenter
If you are lucky enough to be given the opportunity to play Lili Elbe and tell her story, you should be giving every ounce
of yourself. It’s a great privilege, and a great responsibility.”
34 RAGE monthly | NOVEMBER 2015
n impressive cast and crewof Academy Award win- ners have teamed to bring a little-known chapter of LGBTQ history to the big screen this month. The Danish Girl, scheduled to open Friday, November
27, relates the challenging, personal journey undertaken by acclaimed painter Einar Wegener in the 1920s to transition from male to female. Wegener adopted the name “Lili Elbe” and hers became one of the first documented cases of gender reassign- ment or confirmation surgery. Eddie Redmayne, who won the Oscar last year for his turn as
Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, stars as Wegener. He will surely be nominated again for his excellent, beautifully nuanced and authentic performance here. If he should win, Red- mayne will become the first back-to-back Best Actor winner since Tom Hanks over 20 years ago.
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