Alicia Vikander is wanting again at The Danish Lady, ten years after its launch, and says the movie “already feels extraordinarily outdated.”
The Tom Hooper-directed movie, based mostly on the 2000 novel of the identical identify by David Ebershoff, revolved across the lives of Danish painters Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener.
Eddie Redmayne was solid as a transgender girl who was one of many first to bear gender reassignment surgical procedure. Redmayne earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Lili Elbe, whereas Vikander gained as Finest Supporting Actress.
“I’m the primary one to say it already feels extraordinarily dated, which I believe is an efficient factor,” Vikander stated in an interview with British Vogue. “At the moment, it was a pivot in one thing that it made [the subject of transgender lives] at the very least mentioned. I hope that in a approach it was a little bit of an eye-opener and opened the best way for artwork to cowl these themes.”
In 2021, Redmayne opened up about his remorse for taking up the function, telling The Instances of London, “No, I wouldn’t take it on now.”
“I made that movie with the perfect intentions, however I believe it was a mistake,” he added. “The larger dialogue in regards to the frustrations round casting is as a result of many individuals don’t have a chair on the desk. There should be a leveling, in any other case we’re going to keep it up having these debates.”
Forward of the movie’s launch in 2015, Redmayne addressed the controversy over his casting as a trans girl, telling IndieWire, “I hope there’s a day when there are extra trans actors and trans actresses taking part in trans components, but in addition cisgender components. And I hope — as an actor one hopes — that one ought to have the ability to play any kind of half if one performs it with a way of integrity and accountability.”
