“That it’s fluid, I suppose. Hers is a very specific story, and it’s one that shouldn’t stand for everybody’s. Eddie Redmayne is visibly nervous when we meet on a rainy September morning in a posh conference room on the fourth floor of the Shangri-La hotel in Toronto. Grooming by Petra Sellge, Reported Death at Atlanta Circuit Party Held During Pandemic, 10 Questions with Will & James of Amazing Race, Watch Pete Buttigieg Dismantle Amy Coney Barrett's Opening Statement, 'Half of It's Alice Wu Explains How Coming Out Made Her Stronger, Listen Up: 5 Queer Podcasts to Stream Now That You've Come Out, 7 Coming Out Scenes on Television We Will Never Forget, These 7 Photos Reimagine the Queer Chinese Diaspora.

We had a good chat about everything.”, Redmayne’s next port of call was April Ashley, now 80, a former Vogue model whose career took a tumble when her birth identity was uncovered in a newspaper article in 1961. There was a line Redmayne was not quite delivering, one that centered on the significance of the negotiations for his character. 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.

“But it’s riveting.” An early role, while he was still a Cambridge undergraduate, was playing Viola, the girl who pretends to be a boy, in a 400th-year anniversary stage production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. “Eddie and Tom Hooper came to me for advice,” says Ashley.

“No, not massively.” He is not sure how male he feels. Awards, Trans Homicides Reach Tragic Milestone With Louisiana Woman's Death. You never feel that you can do it, but you are aspiring to.”, His face lights up and he becomes increasingly animated, a whirlwind of freckles swirling around widening eyes, as he gleefully discusses the intricacies of his craft. The seeds these stories planted within Redmayne blossom throughout the film, including an elegant scene where Elbe is overcome with joy as she tries on costumes before a full-length mirror. Copyright © 2020. “Because I was at an all-boys school, I played a lot of girls’ parts as a kid,” he says. So, what has playing Lili Elbe taught him most about gender?

“I was in New York when the [Jenner] Vanity Fair cover came out and I was reading The New York Times, and all of the op-ed pieces that were being written about it,” Redmayne recalls. But if anybody’s going to do this justice, then I’m happy it’s Eddie. Eddie Redmayne plays Newt Scamander in J.K Rowling "Fantastic Beats" franchise. Eddie Redmayne had a rude awakening on LGBT issues in 2008, when he was rehearsing Now or Later at the Royal Court Theatre in London. “I knew nothing about it, going in,” he says. “When I began preparing for this role and I heard statistics like 41 percent of trans people have considered suicide, learned about the amount of abuse that continues to occur, or the discrimination that’s still legal in so many states — it’s extraordinary. Photography by John Balsom | Styling by Grant Woolhead, Eddie Redmayne had a rude awakening on LGBT issues in 2008, when he was rehearsing Now or Later at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

The performance drew comparison with Daniel Day-Lewis’s in My Left Foot, though Redmayne’s great triumph and skill were to find the lightness and attractiveness of Hawking’s disability, the exact inverse of Day-Lewis’s visceral reading of physical incapacity.

I felt it every day,” he says. "I disagree with Jo's comments Trans women are women, trans men are men and non-binary identities are valid. The fact that she valued life and authenticity enough to give her everything and anything, I think that is extraordinary.”, A knowing smile spreads across his face, and he adds, “It’s such a simple thing to just be yourself, but I don’t think many of us ever find ourselves. Everyone’s always told me that, all my life.” He doesn’t remember it being an issue for his classmates.

But he will spend the last months of the year promoting it, becoming a new name dropped into the trans conversation.

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