{"id":84135,"date":"2025-08-20T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/84135\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T16:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:57:07","slug":"alicia-vikander-is-glad-the-danish-girl-feels-dated-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/84135\/","title":{"rendered":"Alicia Vikander is glad The Danish Girl feels dated now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alicia Vikander may have won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar<\/a> for her role in The Danish Girl<\/a>, but that doesn\u2019t mean she isn\u2019t aware of the controversial film\u2019s flaws. \u201cI\u2019m the first one to say it already feels extremely dated, which I think is a good thing,\u201d the Rumours actor recently told British Vogue<\/a> of the 2015 project.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Danish Girl starred Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe, a Danish painter and one of the first transgender women to undergo gender-affirming surgery. Redmayne earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal, though viewers have been frustrated with the Tom Hooper-directed film for casting a cisgender man in a trans role since its release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vikander understands that backlash, but does see some of the ways the film benefited the conversation around trans rights. \u201cAt that time, it was a pivot in something that it made [the subject of transgender lives] at least discussed,\u201d she said. \u201cI hope that in a way it was a bit of an eye-opener and opened the way for art to cover those themes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Redmayne has also spoken out about the film, telling The Sunday Times<\/a> in 2021 that playing Elbe was \u201ca mistake,\u201d and though he \u201cmade that film with the best intentions\u201d he \u201cwouldn\u2019t take it on now.\u201d \u201cThe bigger discussion about the frustrations around casting is because many people don\u2019t have a chair at the table,\u201d he elaborated. \u201cThere must be a levelling, otherwise we are going to carry on having these debates.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The actor seemed to already have the seeds of this opinion in his head when the film was released a decade ago. \u201cI hope there\u2019s a day when there are more trans actors and trans actresses playing trans parts, but also cisgender parts,\u201d Redmayne told IndieWire back in 2015. \u201cAnd I hope\u2014as an actor one hopes\u2014that one should be able to play any sort of part if one plays it with a sense of integrity and responsibility.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alicia Vikander may have won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in The Danish Girl, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-84135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}