The Danish Girl is an upcoming American biographical drama film directed by Tom Hooper, based on the 2000 novel of the same name by David Ebershoff. The film stars Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe, one of the first known recipients of sexual reassignment surgery, Alicia Vikander as Gerda Wegener, along with Matthias Schoenaerts as Hans Axgil and Ben Whishaw.

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Well, it looks well-made, but I never stomach any movies which have trans women played by men, it just falls into the ignorant thinking that trans women are men.

I expected more from this movie.

sad , stonewall, Ray , the Danish Girl , transparent. Is there any qualified trans actor anywhere.

OK, I get what you're all saying, but I live in greater Hollywood and many of my friends are actors, directors and producers.  I know that there is a great deal of money at stake here, and if this movie bombs, there will be people who find themselves quickly out of a career.   One tried-and-true way to help a movie along is to cast it with household names.  Once you get spendy on cast and crew, a studio must market the film accordingly in order to ensure it generates enough revenue to at very least cover itself.

Eddie Redmayne is an Oscar-winning actor.  Alicia Vikander is on her way to being the next big thing (See Ex Machina!).

Had this movie been done on a low budget with a trans actress and limited release, fewer people will have been educated about the plight of transgender people.   It was sad to see the movie Tangerine screened in Hollywood at one theater for one week.  I think we deserve a bit more exposure, especially now.

Also, I like watching movies where people can actually act.  So far I haven't seen a trans actress that was up to snuff.  Perhaps that will change soon as well.

Thing to remember is there are a lot of pre transition scenes in this movie, including topless ones. You would have to get a pre-everything mtf actor or an ftm to do it in reverse.

It's without doubt an oscar bait role for Eddie Redmayne but he is a brilliant actor and I'm just not sure we have any trans actors of this calibre that can do the pre transition scenes, correct me if I'm wrong.

It's a tough balance.  There are a lot of practical reasons for using a cisman, but it is frustrating to see another trans role go to a non-trans actor.  I'm more concerned about whether or not the movie does Lili's story justice.  The trailer feels a little fetishy.  We'll see.

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I'm just finding it incredibly hard to believe you can't find a starving trans actor to go for their big break and give an outstanding performance. Not that this is a good analogy , but the kid in Sweeny Todd or the kids that Steven Spielberg   finds for his movie are good actors with no experience . I think the kid in Sweeny Todd was brilliant, but had few credits as an actor.

Exactly! I agree with Stephaniec. I really just see it as ignorance, because trans actors now are hired into trans roles. Also there's a good movie called Romeos which took a cis man in the role of a trans man and that is still a better solution than implying that trans women are men.

I still don't get why the used a male actor, it's completely awful. Plus, it is assumed that Lili was intersex, and she looked very feminine without having to take hormones... Eddy still looks very manly, I'm sorry but I can't. At least they should have casted someone more androgynous. Also it does look very fetishy, I don't want to make judgement so quick, but it definitely not a good representation of Lili's story.

Looks REALLY well-made, and I can tell it's going to be exceptionally emotionally-resonant. I'm seeing it, because it looks like a GREAT movie.

Only thing is, I fear for how they're going to represent the actual trans parts of it.

I really hope they're not going with the "I started cross-dressing and it felt so "right" that I decided to go the whole way" angle. That would be REALLY awful, since in real life this woman ended up dying because she wanted female organs so badly. Please God tell me they're not going to make it seem like just a strange obsessive desire gone too far.

Quote from: Carrie Liz on September 02, 2015, 01:09:56 PM
Looks REALLY well-made, and I can tell it's going to be exceptionally emotionally-resonant. I'm seeing it, because it looks like a GREAT movie.

Only thing is, I fear for how they're going to represent the actual trans parts of it.

I really hope they're not going with the "I started cross-dressing and it felt so "right" that I decided to go the whole way" angle. That would be REALLY awful, since in real life this woman ended up dying because she wanted female organs so badly. Please God tell me they're not going to make it seem like just a strange obsessive desire gone too far.

I kinda have the same worry but in another dirrection.

In general my worries is that the story will be a very binary story, in many ways it is but I hope its wont be like people think you have to have a surgery to be "real transgender" or belive that how things where back then is the same as how it is now, because its not.

I think it all depends alot on how things are done, if you see it from a historical point of view and see the struggles about fitting in then it can be really cool, but Many medias sadly fail to potray transgender people in other ways than just this "very interesting story where all the focus is just on surgery. the last few years the movies have been better to potray transpeople as actually People like in Boy meets girls, but I still think alot of movies fail.

Also I am pretty worried that hollywood will portray denmark simular to how homeland was potraying parkistian. -__-

Ok, So I really wanted to dislike this movie because of the lack of a trans actress. I really did. However, after watching the trailers a dozen times or so I have grown to be Very excited by this movie. If the movie is half as good as the trailers then we may have another must see classic. I guess we will find out next week. I already have tickets.
Jenn

i know it's terrible, but i don't really care if the actor/actress is trans or not, as long as it accurately shows the plight of trans women. i'm so damn excited for this movie. i'm so happy to see some coverage for us!

Quote from: stephaniec on September 01, 2015, 09:30:51 PM
I'm just finding it incredibly hard to believe you can't find a starving trans actor to go for their big break and give an outstanding performance. Not that this is a good analogy , but the kid in Sweeny Todd or the kids that Steven Spielberg   finds for his movie are good actors with no experience . I think the kid in Sweeny Todd was brilliant, but had few credits as an actor.

I have done limited acting.  I personally couldn't touch a role that made me detransition.  Also, I just disagree that trans actors should get trans roles.   

Actors play things they are not.  Trans actors should play cis roles

The trailer is up and it does looks interesting, and pretty realistic so far I should say. (if we look past the part that the everyone speaks English)

I am currently reading the book, and I hope I also will get the chance to see Gerdas paintings and read Man Into Woman before I get to see the film.

I am not too bothered by the fact it's a cisman playing Lili because so far as I read the book it seems there are more scenes where Lili is a man, or at least an equal number of Lili being a man and a woman.
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I'll probably write something when I get to watch it. unfortunately I think I will first have the chance at February.

Trailer looks great.  I will see the movie for sure.

I see no reason a trans role has to be played by a trans person.  Those that propose this would be supporting reverse discrimination.