Lili Elbe: Last News

Hilary Swank has reflected on her role in Boys Don’t Cry two decades ago, saying changing awareness means she wouldn’t take the part today.

Will & Grace star Eric McCormack has defended straight actors playing LGBTQ+ roles.McCormack, who is best known for playing Will Truman on NBC sitcom Will & Grace, spoke recently about his casting as a gay character, and how straight actors should still be able to play LGBTQ+ roles.Speaking on Good Morning Britain earlier this week, the actor said: “There’s no part I’ve ever played where I wasn’t playing something I’m not. It’s part of the gig.

BBC‘s Desert Island Discs (via The Guardian), Tucci said that he considers being on stage or on screen as a safe place where you can inhabit different types of characters.“I feel much safer on stage than I do in real life,” he said. “Sometimes, walking into a cocktail or dinner party, I get very nervous.”Discussing being criticised for playing a gay character in Supernova, he added: “Obviously, I believe that’s fine, and I am always very flattered when gay men come up to me and talk about my role in The Devil Wears Prada or Supernova, and say I did it the right way.“Because often it is not done the right way, and I really do believe as an actor that you are supposed to play different people.

Not having it. Lukas Gage wasn’t pleased when his name was mentioned in a critical post about Hollywood’s pattern of casting heterosexual actors to play LGBTQIA+ characters.

The Guardian, Whishaw said he “[understood] the questions” surrounding straight actors playing gay characters, adding that “discussion” and “listening to each other” about the issues was important rather than disagreement.“I think Eddie did a beautiful job,” he said of Eddie Redmayne’s performance in The Danish Girl as trans pioneer Lili Elbe. Whishaw had a supporting role in the film.He continued: “And it’s done. Going forward, there will be other films in which the role is given to someone who lived that experience.

The Danish Girl, saying it was “a mistake” to take the role.In the Tom Hooper film, Redmayne, a cisgender man, played Lili Elbe, one of the first known transgender people to have gender reassignment surgery. News of the casting came with significant controversy, and questions why a trans woman was not cast for the role.In a new interview with The Sunday Times, Redmayne was asked to reflect on the role, and questioned on whether he would take the role again if he were offered it today.“No, I wouldn’t take it on now,” he replied.

Eddie Redmayne has revealed that he wouldn’t accept his role in the 2015 film The Danish Girl if he was offered it today, saying it was ‘a mistake’ on his part.Speaking to The Times, the 2015 Oscar-winner – who was also nominated for his lead role in this movie the following year said: ‘I wouldn’t take it on now. I made that film with the best intentions, but I think it was a mistake.’ His casting as artist Lili Elbe, who underwent one of the earliest sex confirmation surgeries in Germany in 1930, has often been condemned, with critics believing that the role should have been played by a trans actor.Redmayne added: ‘The bigger discussion about the frustrations around casting is because many people don’t have a chair at the table.

Eddie Redmayne has admitted that his role in The Danish Girl, for which he received and Oscar nomination, was a mistake.

Eddie Redmayne says taking on his Academy Award-nominated role as a trans character in the 2015 film The Danish Girl was a mistake.