Eddie Redmayne Calls ‘Danish Girl’ Role a ‘Mistake,’ Though He Made Film With ‘Best Intentions’

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentEuropean production group Newen Studios is teaming with Oscar-nominated Danish producer Sigrid Dyekjaer to launch production company Real Lava.Based in Denmark, Real Lava will aim to produce cinematic documentary films and series for international audiences. Kicking off Real Lava’s documentary slate is Alex Pritz’s “The Territory” which will be premiering at Sundance.

EXCLUSIVE: Viaplay has set YA drama Boys as its latest Danish original, a coming-of-age series from 27-year-old Jonas Risvig.

Jamie Lang Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander (“The Danish Girl”), the Goteborg Film Festival and the Sten Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture have teamed on a new, three-year film training program aimed at increasing diversity in film and inspiring promising young talent.

A top coroner has adjourned an inquest into the death of a Sale woman who died on holiday in Denmark.

Aziz Ansari is engaged, according to Page Six. The 38-year-old actor and comedian reportedly revealed that he got engaged to his girlfriend, Danish forensic data scientist Serena Skov Campbell, during a surprise stand-up set at the Comedy Cellar in New York City on Wednesday night (December 1).

Danish production company Creative Alliance, which is run by Lone Scherfig, Ole Christian Madsen and Malene Blenkov, has struck an exclusive agreement with Nordisk Film Production.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michaela Coel, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Colin Firth, Florence Pugh and other top talent.It was, as Mbatha-Raw puts it, “so un-British.” In a good way.The U.K. had its own reckoning with race following the murder of George Floyd on May 25 in America, and the local film and TV industry was quick to make declarations of allyship and engage in untold commitments.

More than five years after the film’s debut, there’s still quite a bit of controversy around the Oscar-winning feature, “The Danish Girl.” Well, there’s controversy around the fact that Eddie Redmayne was cast in the lead role as a trans woman. And with time to digest the problem of a cis-man taking on the role of a trans woman in a film, Redmayne has come to the conclusion that his role was a mistake.

role as the Danish transgender artist Lili Elbe among his professional regrets, the actor said during a recent interview.The biopic “The Danish Girl” told the true story of one of the first people in history to have gender reassignment surgery.The Tom Hooper-directed film starring Redmayne — as well as Alicia Vikander as the artist’s wife, Gerda Wegener, a role that earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress — drew criticism from the LGBTQ community and its allies for not casting a

The Danish Girl, saying it was “a mistake” to take the role.In the Tom Hooper film, Redmayne, a cisgender man, played Lili Elbe, one of the first known transgender people to have gender reassignment surgery.

Naman Ramachandran Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne has said that playing a trans character in “The Danish Girl” was a “mistake.”Based on true events, Redmayne played one of the first people in the world who underwent gender reassignment surgery in the Tom Hooper-directed film.Redmayne, who won a best actor Oscar in 2015 for playing disabled scientist Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” earned an Oscar nomination in the same category a year later for “The Danish Girl.” There were

Words + Music, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder touched on the tragedy that marred the band’s set at 2000’s Roskilde festival, and how it almost spelt the end of their performing career.Echoing the recent Astroworld tragedy (though it should be noted that Vedder’s audiobook, I Am Mine, predates the incident by several months), nine people were killed in a stampede that occurred during Pearl Jam’s performance at the Danish festival.

Eddie Redmayne has admitted that his role in The Danish Girl, for which he received and Oscar nomination, was a mistake.

Eddie Redmayne is looking back on his controversial role in “The Danish Girl”.