A top commodity after taking home the Oscar for playing Stephen Hawking, Eddie Redmayne is prepping another transformative role. This time he’ll portray Lili Elbe, the first person to undergo a successful gender confirmation procedure.
The transgender vanguard — now the subject of “The Danish Girl,” directed by Tom Hooper (“The King’s Speech,” “Les Misérables”) — was assigned male at birth and named Einar Wegener. After marrying an artist and often dressing as a woman, Elbe ventured to Germany in 1930 for five experimental surgeries over the course of two years.
