Kidman joins film adaptation about the first post-operative transsexual

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Kidman joins film adaptation about the first post-operative transsexual
The Celebrity Cafe
Written by: Sari N. Kent
06 November 2009


http://www.thecelebritycafe.com/features/35525.html


Kidman joins film adaptation about the first post-operative transsexual

Academy Award winning actress Nicole Kidman will join fellow Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow in the film adaptation of the David Ebershoff novel
, "Danish Girl," which tells the real life tale of the first post-operative transsexual, Einar Wegener and his wife, Greta.

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Gug. Nicole Kidman and Gwyneth Paltrow in the same film. If it weren't a trans film, I'd be happy to give this a miss.

[Shana A]

Paltrow Joins Kidman in "Danish Girl"

By: Mike Fleming
Published: Fri, November 06, 2009, 12:11 PM

http://weblogs.variety.com/bfdealmemo/2009/11/paltrow-joins-kidman-in-danish-girl-.html

Gwyneth Paltrow will join Nicole Kidman in "The Danish Girl," an adaptation of the David Ebershoff novel that tells the story of a relationship between the first post-operative transsexual, Einar Wegener, and his wife Greta.

Thomas Alfredson ("Let the Right One In") is directing a script by Lucinda Coxon. Gail Mutrux, Anne Harrison and Linda Reisman are producing, along with Kidman and Per Saari.

One afternoon in 1920s Copenhagen, Greta, a portrait painter, asked her husband to stand in for an absent female model. Slipping on a dress, stockings and woman's shoes began a metamorphosis into Lili. When the photos became wildly popular, Greta encouraged her husband to do more, but a harmless game evolved into something deeper that threatens their marriage.
Post Merge: November 08, 2009, 08:38:18 AM

Paltrow joins Kidman's transsexual film The Danish Girl
Last Updated: Saturday, November 7, 2009 | 12:28 PM ET
CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2009/11/07/paltrow-danishgirl-kidman.html

Gwyneth Paltrow has signed on to The Danish Girl, a film chronicling the real-life story of the world's first post-operative transsexual, Einar Wegener.

Wegener will be portrayed by Nicole Kidman, and Paltrow will play Wegener's wife, Greta, a portrait painter who one day asked her husband to stand in for a female model.

Charlize Theron was originally tied to the role but dropped out for unspecified reasons. Kidman is also one of the film's producers.