Jennifer Lawrence / A Conversation with Eddie Redmayne

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Eddie Redmayne

By Jennifer Lawrence

Photographed by Craig McDean

January 12, 2015

I’m just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I’m entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it could be a catastrophic disaster made me unable to sleep, and made me work quite hard. Eddie Redmayne

The Danish Girl actors Eddie Redmayne, left and Alicia Vikander, alongside British director Tom Hooper.
Photograph: CLAUDIO ONORATI

Danish Girl director Tom Hooper: film industry has 'problem' with transgender actors

Director of film starring Eddie Redmayne, about Danish transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, says that ‘access to roles’ is key to progress

The film industry has a “problem” with transgender actors, with many unable to secure roles despite a “huge pool of talent”, according to film director Tom Hooper, whose latest film The Danish Girl – starring Eddie Redmayne as a pioneering recipient of gender-reassignment surgery – receives its world premiere at the Venice film festival.

The Danish Girl review – chocolate-box charm from Eddie Redmayne

This fictionalised biopic of pioneering transgender artist Lili Elbe is well made and sympathetic, if a little too tasteful


Peter Bradshaw
Thursday 31 December 2015 19.00 GMT

The title is ambiguous, applying to either of its lead characters, but in both cases it should be The Danish Woman, surely? This is the fictionalised reimagining of the story of Lili Elbe, formerly Einar Wegener, the pioneering transgender artist from Denmark who, in 1930, was one of the first people to undertake sex reassignment surgery. Screenwriter Lucinda Coxon has adapted David Ebershoff’s 2000 novel based on Elbe’s life, and Tom Hooper directs with the same accomplishment and flair he brought to The King’s Speech, the same eye for sartorial elegance – Eddie Redmayne’s male suits make him look an elfin Prince of Wales. There is the same Pygmalion trope of remedial transformation.

Redmayne is Lili and Alicia Vikander plays Gerda, the fellow artist who is married to Einar (as he is originally). At first, Gerda skittishly goes along with their secret erotic game of Einar dressing in her clothes as Lili, and even partly creates this persona by painting portraits of this mysterious woman, which become the talk of the art world. But Gerda must deal with growing feelings of loneliness and abandonment.

Eddie Redmayne wins best actor Oscar for portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything

Eddie Redmayne wins best actor Oscar for portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything

British actor wins first Oscar, beating a field including Birdman star Michael Keaton

Henry Barnes
Monday 23 February 2015 16.57 GMT

Eddie Redmayne has won the best actor Oscar for his performance as Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.

The British actor came to the Oscars the favourite after claiming the Screen Actors’ Guild’s best actor award last month. The winner of that award has gone on to pick up the best actor Oscar every year since 2003.