Debbie Hayton Debbie Hayton

Eddie Redmayne’s transgender confusion

Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl

Eddie Redmayne is clearly still troubled by his portrayal of the transsexual Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl. Eight years after Redmayne’s acclaimed performance, it is the one film the actor seems nervous talking about. Now, Redmayne has distanced himself again from that role – and suggested he will no longer take parts that could go to trans actors.

‘No one wants to be limited by their gender or sexuality but, historically, these communities haven’t had a seat at the table. Until there’s a levelling, there are certain parts I wouldn’t play,’ he said in an interview with the Guardian.

This isn’t the first time Redmayne has put on sack cloth. Back in 2021, he conceded that his decision to play a trans person was a ‘mistake’. Of course, Redmayne has never expressed any trouble with taking the role of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, and Redmayne is no physicist.

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