Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne has stated that playing a transgender character in The Danish Girl was a “mistake.” He admitted that he wouldn’t take up a function now.
“No, I wouldn’t take it on now. I made that film with the best intentions, but I think it was a mistake,” Redmayne informed The Sunday Times. “The bigger discussion about the frustrations around casting is because many people don’t have a chair at the table. There must be a levelling, otherwise we are going to carry on having these debates,” Redmayne added.
Based on true occasions, Redmayne performed one of many first folks in the world who underwent gender reassignment surgical procedure in the Tom Hooper-directed movie.
Redmayne, who received a Best Actor on the Academy Awards in 2015 for playing disabled scientist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, earned an Oscar nomination in the identical class a yr later for The Danish Girl. There had been calls for on the time for the character to be performed by a trans actor.
The actor can also be the lead of Harry Potter creator J.Ok. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts franchise, the newest of which, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, is due in 2022. Speaking up about J.Ok. Rowling, who has been criticized for her anti-trans feedback, Redmayne stated, “As someone who has worked with both J.K. Rowling and members of the Trans community, I wanted to make it absolutely clear where I stand,” Redmayne stated in 2020 in a assertion shared with Variety. “I disagree with Jo’s comments. Trans women are women, Trans men are men and non-binary identities are valid. I would never want to speak on behalf of the community but I do know that my dear transgender friends and colleagues are tired of this constant questioning of their identities, which all too often results in violence and abuse. They simply want to live their lives peacefully, and it’s time to let them do so.”
On the work entrance, Eddie Redmayne is at the moment starring alongside Jessie Buckley in a new manufacturing of Cabaret at London’s Playhouse Theatre. The actor performs The Emcee, or the Master of Ceremonies, a function that has been performed a number of instances by LGBTQ+ actors because it first premiered on Broadway in 1966.
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