Showing posts with label Alicia Vikander. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alicia Vikander. Show all posts

Friday, October 16, 2015

The second trailer for 'The Danish Girl' arrived

New trailer for Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, with Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander 
as Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. The film debuted at the Venice Film Festival
and will open in US theaters on November 27th.


"Every morning I promise myself that I will spend the entire day as a man, 
but I think Lili’s thoughts, I dream her dreams..."





  








Nice words about Alicia from Eddie and Alicia about Eddie from Elle US, November 2015 (x)
...Reached by phone on the eve of the film's Venice debut, Redmayne recalls about Vikander: 
"When she came and auditioned to play Gerda, I was sitting behind the camera, and Tom was filming it, and when it got to the end of the scene I turned around to find Tom sort of crying." Redmayne adds, "She will make broad strokes and brave choices, and she will constantly challenge you to step up. She will continue surprising you, and you have to keep surprising her."
Alicia about working with Eddie: 
"To work with Redmayne, who is just the most generous person and actor, was amazing."

Quote from thedailybeast review of 'The Danish Girl' (x):
"Few actors bring such tenderness to their characters while at the same time communicating great inner strength and fortitude (those expressive eyes, shimmering with promise, help in this regard). This is the type of performance Oscars were made for, and Redmayne has mounted a very strong case for a second consecutive Best Actor nomination."

Updated on 16th October 2015, 9:58

Saturday, October 3, 2015

Happy Birthday Alicia!

Eddie's co-star in 'The Danish Girl' Alicia Vikander celebrated her 27th Birthday today.
“I will never forget, Domhnall Gleeson is a good friend of mine, and I remember him going to work on ‘Anna Karenina’ and coming back one day going; “I’ve just worked with this absolutely extraordinary woman!”. So I’d heard about Alicia from then, and you’re right, she’s utterly extraordinary.“ 
- THR podcast - Eddie Redmayne interview - the part about Alicia from 29:07
Eddie worked with Domhnall Gleeson in 'Now or Later' at the Royal Court theatre in 2008


We did this scene, the scene the morning after Lili goes out...for the first time...




In the CTV etalk interview Eddie also praises Alicia
"I think that Alicia, how she played Gerda with this extraordinary... vibrancy and force
and independence and yet great great heart, was... a wonder to watch." (3:30)


Thursday, September 17, 2015

tiff.40 - Press Conference on Saturday 12. September and more from Sunday


Toronto, Canada on September 13, 2015. (via)

 (x) cropped

Actress Alicia Vikander explains her recent film The Danish Girl as “wanting to explain something you can’t, nd the guilt that comes from that, of not really knowing how to express yourself. [Director] Tom [Hooper] ery much let us embrace that. To expose the fragile fear of not really knowing how to reach out.”






captures from bespokeredmayne


redbatchedcumbermayned: THR photos from TIFF of Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander & Tom Hooper (x)
“One of the things that’s interesting in Man Into Woman, is that Lili talks about herself in the third person 
sometimes,” said Redmayne of the book that contained Lili Elbe’s letters. 


bespokeredmayne: Eddie Redmayne by Jay Sansone for Entertainment Weekly
at the Toronto International Film Festival 2015.


Wednesday, September 16, 2015

tiff.40 - Variety Studio - Sunday, September 13, 2015

"The Danish Girl's" Alicia Vikander and Eddie Redmayne prepare for their interview. (x)


The four-day Variety Studio wrapped Monday, after doing more than 40 video interviews with stars like Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Bryan Cranston, Elle Fanning and Eddie Redmayne...
The studio was created in the men’s department of the swanky Holt Renfrew department store. Like much of the Toronto Fest, it’s slightly surreal but ultimately makes sense. (x)

Watch Variety’s conversation with “The Danish Girl” stars Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander and Tom Hooper.






my screencaptures from the article's video


allaboutaliciavikander: Alicia, Tom and Eddie trying to coordinate a group selfie!

Holt Renfrew Variety Dinner in honor of 'The Danish Girl' - excerpts from the report of
Shinan Govani: Watching TIFF’s kaleidoscope of buzz unfold around Eddie Redmayne
...Having taken the storm again with his aching portrayal in 
The Danish Girl this year – hey, did Stephen Hawking’s theory encompass the possibility of back-to-back Oscars, by chance?! – Eddie plopped down with us at a swish sit-down held for his new film inside the upper level of Holt Renfrew on Bloor Street.
One, indubitably, would have to be more than colour-blind to not see the kaleidoscope of buzz unfolding for his transgender turn in the Tom Hooper-directed film. Wouldn’t they? Indeed, as forks clanked on glasses on this night, the die was possibly cast, when Variety magazine editor Claudia Eller – who was co-hosting the one long table, and making a few remarks – said pointedly to both Eddie, and his comely co-star, Alicia Vikander, also seated, “Good luck at the Oscars!”....


To prepare for the role, Eddie read Lili’s autobiography,Man Into Woman, plus sat down with a string of transgender women, but he also drew on an early rabbit-hole experience when he was cast as Viola in an all-male school production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
(my note: Twelfth Night wasn't a school production, but the 'Shakespeare's Globe 400th anniversary 
production at the Middle Temple Hall with the excellent Mark Rylance who played Olivia.) 
“I was a boy playing a girl playing a boy,” he told me. For this film, though, he insists, its essence is that it’s “a love story … these two souls who meet whose love isn’t limited to gender, to sexuality, to anything.”...


But, in the here and now, the star of the night was Eddie. Unable to resist his charms, among others: billionairess and uber-patroness Hilary Weston, who was seated right beside the actor. As the night was winding down, she couldn’t help but lure him into a selfie with her. After several aborted attempts – stretching one’s arm to get a self-portrait is not for the faint of heart – Mrs. Holt Renfrew managed to snag a pic of herself with Eddie over her shoulder. Fabulous!