Eddie Redmayne Looks Spectacular In Transgender Role For The Danish Girl

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Eddie Redmayne’s latest movie transformation has been snapped on the streets of Denmark – and he looks truly splendid.

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The "Theory of Everything" Oscar-winner, who played Professor Stephen Hawking in his last movie, is playing Einar Wegener in "The Danish Girl, "directed by "Les Miserables" helmsman Tom Hooper.

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Wegener, who later became Lili Elbe, was the world’s first recorded transgender woman, causing a sensation when she underwent reassignment surgery in 1930.

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In a blue dress and hat combo, he appears demure on a picturesque street in Copenhagen, where the movie is being filmed.

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Then we see him beaming in another scene in a fish market, where he is resplendent in a navy coat and a fur stole.

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In the movie, Wegener’s wife Gerda is played by Alicia Vikander, fresh from a sterling performance in "Ex Machina."

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Meanwhile, Redmayne has said that the part is his "most challenging" to date, with rumours he’s lost two stone to play the role.

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It was previously thought that a woman would take the role, with the likes of Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marion Cotillard and Charlize Theron said to have been linked.

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Based on the book of the same name by David Ebershoff, Wegener’s story is an inspiring, but also tragic one.

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Wegener began wearing women’s clothes after a model posing for her illustrator wife Gerda Gottlieb failed to show up.

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She continued to dress as a woman, and went to Germany in 1930 for experimental gender reassignment surgery, but it was after a fifth operation, an attempt to transplant a uterus, which caused her death just a year later.

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It’s said that Redmayne discussed the role with Lana Wachowski, his director on "Jupiter Ascending," who herself has transitioned.

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It’s due out - just in time for Oscar consideration – on January 1, 2016.

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Image credits: Famefly.net