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thenational.ae: A preview of the glitz and grit in store at the 72nd Venice Film Festival

...This year’s winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, Eddie Redmayne, will be on the Lido with new film The Danish Girl. After his remarkable transformation into the disabled Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, his performance as Lili Elbe, one of the first recipients of gender-reassignment surgery, is likely to be one of the festival’s biggest talking points. It should also ensure the young Briton is a strong contender for the festival’s Volpi Cup for acting....

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dailykos.com: Actors play trans in search of Oscars
Article about 'The Danish Girl' and 'About Ray', with a description of Lili's backstory and Out interview quotes. Intelligent approach of the transgender issues by a trans woman author rserven.

"I do get the point about the inappropriateness of using trans people who have already transitioned to portray transgender people who are just transitioning. But everyone knows the real reason to use cisgender people to play transgender people in films is the ability to use name actors in the cast in hopes of a bigger payday and more awards."

Originally posted by nowthisnews

stephaniesoteriou: Eddie Redmayne: ‘Caitlyn Jenner’s Transition Is A Civil Rights Movement‘

"...On top of practically dripping with talent, being an ultimate fashion icon, and having the most beautifully freckled 

face in history, Ed has now spoken out in support of Caitlyn Jenner and even had the guts to admit that he held 

some serious misconceptions about the trans* community in the past..."

Indiewire: 'About Ray' Director Gaby Dellal Ignites Controversy With Very Problematic Interview
...Gaby Dellal gave an interview to Refinery29 about the upcoming "About Ray," an inter-generational story focusing on a transgender boy (Elle Fanning) and his supportive mother (Noami Watts) and grandmother (Susan Sarandon). And unlike a recent interview in which Eddie Redmayne (who plays a transgender woman in another fall release, "The Danish Girl") offered thoughtful and respectful words on the community he's representing, Dellal presented herself quite problematically...

RESPECTFUL PORTRAYAL: The real Lili Elbe and Eddie Redmayne as Elbe 

for The Danish Girl location filming in Copenhagen (source: bespokeredmayne)

bespokeredmayne: It’s clear that what the filmmakers and stars say about this sudden spate of LGBT films is going to be reviewed as intensely as the films themselves. This is a good example, and Eddie Redmayne receives a thumbs-up for his recent Out Magazine interview about The Danish Girl.

Note: One of my Italian Redmayniac friends invited me to Venice to the Premiere. I can go, because Venice is not too far from where I live, so I hope that everything will be alright and finally I can meet Eddie. Root for me!