His performance earned him an Oscar nomination in 2016, in the best actor category.
Whatever.
Eddie Redmayne obviously doesn't mind spitting in the soup.
With the British daily
The Times
, relayed by BFMTV, the actor regretted his role in
The Danish Girl
, where he plays Lili Elbe, one of the first transgender women to benefit from sex reassignment surgery.
See also
The Danish Girl
and
Legend
, films that give themselves a genre
“If I were offered this role today, I wouldn't accept it. I would not do it again today, ”
he said, stressing that he had
“ made this film with the best of intentions ”
, but believing that
“ it was a mistake ”
. By the time the critically acclaimed, Oscar-winning Alicia Vikander film was released in 2015, voices were raised when a non-transgender man had taken on the role of the Danish trailblazer. Members of the LGBT community felt the role should have been played by a trans person, regardless of Eddie Redmayne's acting quality. Questioned, the actor retorted that an actor
"Should be able to play any role, if he plays it with a sense of integrity and responsibility"
.
Recurring controversies
180 ° turn, therefore.
“
The wider discussions about the tension surrounding the casting are due to the fact that a lot of people don't have a say.
We have to get up to speed, otherwise we will continue to have these debates, ”said
Eddie Redmayne, when he was reminded that, without his participation in
The Danish Girl
, the film would never have been shot.
The controversies around trans characters played by "cisgender" actors [whose gender corresponds to the biological sex,
Editor's note
] in the cinema are legion. In 2018, Scarlett Johansson gave up playing the role of a transgender masseur turned pimp, after receiving a volley of green wood on social networks. In 2020, actress Halle Berry, who was also preparing to play a trans man, had to abdicate and do a
de rigorous
mea culpa
. “
As a cisgender woman, I understand that I shouldn't have considered this role, and that the transgender community should definitely have the opportunity to tell their own stories
,” she posted on Twitter.
. I am grateful for the advice and conversations over the past few days and will continue to listen, educate and learn from this mistake. I promise to be an ally and to work for a better representation on screen, in front of and behind the cameras.
"
In France, hysteria is less.
Director Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, whose film
A Good Man
evokes the story of a transgender man, Benjamin, who decides to carry the child he wishes to have with his partner, still made the object of criticism.
The filmmaker did not deflate, arguing that she
"first chose an interpreter"
, in the person of Noémie Merlant, a so-called "cisgender" actress.
"The role of Benjamin is a capital role, huge, very important, and you have to have experience,"
she explained Saturday, October 16 on the set of
We are live
on France 2.
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