{"id":1044165,"date":"2021-11-22T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T17:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1044165"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:44:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T17:44:19","slug":"eddie-redmayne-playing-transgender-character-in-the-danish-girl-was-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eddie-redmayne-playing-transgender-character-in-the-danish-girl-was-a-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Redmayne: Playing Transgender Character in &#039;The Danish Girl&#039; Was a &#039;Mistake&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feddie-redmayne-playing-transgender-character-in-the-danish-girl-was-a-mistake%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1044165&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Actor Eddie Redmayne has expressed regret about his Oscar-nominated role in <em>The Danish Girl<\/em>, saying that playing a transgender character was a \u201cmistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Redmayne won acclaim for playing artist Lili Elbe \u2014 a Danish man who underwent a sex-change operation to become a woman \u2014 in the 2015 movie. But he said in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/eddie-redmaynes-cabaret-gamble-i-lie-in-bed-going-through-routines-in-my-head-q6zxm8ld6\">interview<\/a> with Britain\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Sunday Times <\/em>that&nbsp;he wouldn\u2019t accept the role today<i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNo, I wouldn\u2019t take it on now,\u201d Redmayne told the newspaper. \u201cI made that film with the best intentions but I think it was a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Danish Girl Official Trailer #1 (2015) - Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander Drama HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d88APYIGkjk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Redmayne said transgender actors deserve to be considered for trans characters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bigger discussions about the frustrations around casting is because many people don\u2019t have a chair at the table,\u201d he added. \u201cThere must be a levelling, otherwise, we are going to carry on having these debates.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18856530\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-22-at-8.23.34-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18856530 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-22-at-8.23.34-AM.png\" alt width=\"1920\" height=\"1254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Eddie Redmayne stars in The Danish Girl. (Agatha A. Nitecka\/\u00a9Focus Features)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Redmayne\u2019s renunciation of <em>The Danish Girl<\/em> comes amid growing pressure from woke, left-wing activists for Hollywood to embrace so-called \u201cauthentic\u201d casting that would require actors to only play roles that correspond with their real-life identities.<\/p>\n<p>Actor Javier Bardem has faced criticism for playing Desi Arnaz in the upcoming movie <em>Being the Ricardos<\/em>, with some woke activists and journalists questioning why a Spanish actor is playing the part of a Cuban. Writer-director Aaron Sorkin recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/11\/11\/aaron-sorkin-rejects-woke-casting-demands-spaniards-can-play-cubans-gay-and-straight-arent-actable\/\">dismissed the criticism<\/a>, saying there is nothing inappropriate about Bardem\u2019s casting.<\/p>\n<p>Redmayne himself defended his role in <em>The Danish Girl<\/em> while promoting the movie during its release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;as an actor one hopes&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;that one should be able to play&nbsp;<em>any<\/em>&nbsp;sort of part if one plays it with a sense of integrity and responsibility,\u201d the actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2015\/11\/eddie-redmayne-talks-backlash-trans-representation-and-the-power-of-the-male-gaze-in-the-danish-girl-50373\/\">told<\/a> Indiewire in 2015, adding thaat his first professional job was playing the female heroine&nbsp;Viola in Shakespeare\u2019s <em>Twelfth&nbsp;Night<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow David Ng on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyItsDavidNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@HeyItsDavidNg<\/a>. 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Contact me at&nbsp;<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:dng@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dng@breitbart.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Eddie Redmayne has expressed regret about his Oscar-nominated role in The Danish Girl, saying that playing a transgender character was a \u201cmistake.\u201d Eddie Redmayne won acclaim for playing artist &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}