Thursday, August 13, 2015

New still from 'The Danish Girl' in EW article




“Eddie has this astonishing emotional translucency. For him the concern was always about Lili’s emotional journey. He put so much work and time into that, which led to getting the physical stuff right. Everything flowed from the inside out.” – Director Tom Hooper on a Eddie Redmayne’s portrayal of Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl.(x)(via)



venicefilmfestival:
Tom HOOPER’s The Danish Girl, with Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander,
Amber Heard, Sebastian Koch, Ben Whishaw, Matthias Schoenaerts.
(Gran Bretagna, Usa, 120’)


Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe on the set in Copenhagen (x)

Links:
pmafilms (x): Busy day today! We're interviewing Composer Harry Gregson-Williams
for The Martian and Director Tom Hooper for The Danish Girl.
Another related article in Metro
cineplex: Every single trailer for the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Out Magazine photos and cover story - the first TDG interview (excerpts)

grantwoolhead (x)#eddieredmayne on the September cover of @outmagazine photographs
by #johnbalsom styling by me wearing leather shirt by @ralphlauren and t shirt by #sunspel
outofficial: Eddie Redmayne covers Out magazine’s September issue 

outmagazine (x)#EddieRedmayne discusses his role as a trans woman in our
September cover story | Photography by John Balsom | Story by Paul Flynn
Styling by @grantwoolhead | Shirt by @ralphlauren Polo | T-shirt by@sunspelclothing
"I'm being given this extraordinary experience of being able to play this [trans] 
woman [Lili Elbe], but with that comes this responsibility of not only educating 
myself but hopefully using that to educate an audience."


...He is warm, effervescent, and seems unsure why life has dealt him the cards it has. When he becomes animated
on a subject, he is like a puppy finding its first ball of wool, pronounced freckles dancing about his face. He says he specifically chose the café where we meet because of his sentimental attachment to it, and becomes progressively more enthusiastic as he recalls all the performances he prepped for in the adjoining rehearsal rooms, his voice lifting
in register with each memory. He has tangible bouts of class guilt and works with a charity to enable those less privileged through drama school. He is categorically one of the good guys...

outmagazine (x): Another shot of September coverboy #EddieRedmayne.
T-shirt by @sunspelclothing | Jacket and pants by @maisonvalentino

...He keeps his Oscar statuette on a side table and still sometimes stops in his tracks when he gets home drunk to find it sitting there. “I’ll come back and sit on the sofa and — argh!” He mimes jumping out of his skin. “You check that it feels real.” He isn’t quite sure how to go about getting it insured. “I haven’t yet. I probably shouldn’t say that, right? But I don’t know what its value is. You can’t sell them — you’re not allowed to. So when you call the insurance people, what do you say it’s worth?”...


...“Because I was at an all-boys school, I played a lot of girls’ parts as a kid,” he says. “I look identical to my mother. Everyone’s always told me that, all my life.” He doesn’t remember it being an issue for his classmates. As he was wrapping production for the film version of Les Misérables in 2011, director Tom Hooper gave him the script for
The Danish Girl. “I found it profoundly moving,” he says.
The script, the handiwork of playwright Lucinda Coxon, was the story of Einar Wegener, the Copenhagen artist
whose gender confirmation surgery in Germany in 1930 is believed to be one of the first successful examples.
“I knew nothing about it, going in,” he says. “It felt like it was a piece about authenticity and love and the courage
it takes to be yourself.”...

...“This project had gone in and out and I didn’t even think it would ever get made, if I’m being honest,” he says. “But I did start talking to Lana about Lili and she told me how important the book, Man into Woman [an edited collection of Elbe’s letters and journal entries], was to her. And also the art, specifically of Gerda. She very kindly continued my education, pointed me to literature, and where I should be headed.” The Danish Girl is an adaptation of a book of the same name by David Ebershoff, a fictionalized account of Lili’s life...

grantwoolhead (x): Outtake of #eddieredmayne from our new September @outmagazine cover story
shot by #johnbalsom wearing shearling jacket and turtleneck all by @tomford styled by me. 
Grant Woolhead styled this shot below for Interview Magazine a while back.(x)

Takay for Interview Magazine on 21 December 2007 - more photos here


Monday, August 10, 2015

MCM - Eddie in blue plaid shirt

When I found this picture on Instagram, I decided to use it in a post for Man Crush Monday.
k280-2 posted a few scans from the SCREEN Magazine 2 years ago on tumblr

from the supplement of SCREEN August 2013 issue - source k280-2
taken on 1st May 2013. Eddie and Hibiya Park at the Peninsula Tokyo.

The photo and scan above is from the SCREEN Magazine's July 2013 issue.
Eddie went to Japan on 30 April for a few days and posed for beautiful magazine photos.
This was at the time of the Jupiter Ascending filming, he was in his best form.
Thanks k280-2 for the pictures.

The pictures below were taken at the same time and place for the Japanese newspaper 'mantan-web'


Eddie wore a same-looking blue plaid shirt in New York in May 2010