Stars connected to J.K. Rowling’s movie adaptations have spoken out in support of the trans and gender diverse community, in response to the author’s transphobic tweets this week. Rowling took to social media earlier this week to question an article that cited “people who menstruate”, and today released a 3,600 essay on her website declaring […]
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Dir: David Yates | M | In Cinemas Now | ★ ★ ★ ★ If you’ve been missing the spell that the Potterverse has cast over the big screen over the last 15 years the Fantastic Beasts will satisfy your craving. Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne picks up the wand as […]
Tom Hooper’s film ‘The Danish Girl’ has been banned from screening in Qatar due to a number of online complaints accusing the work of ‘”depraved” content. The film draws from the story of one of the earliest known transgender pioneers, Lili Elbe – played by British actor Eddie Redmayne. The Guardian reports that citizens of […]
Actor Eddie Redmayne is the final cover star for ‘Details’ magazine. Publisher Conde Naste has announced the December 2015 edition of the magazine will be it’s last issue. The men’s style guide first appeared in 1982 and was acquired by the publishing powerhouse in 1988. Conde Naste says it will continue to publish it’s long […]
The first posters have emerged for director Tom Hooper’s upcoming biopic ‘The Danish Girl’, which depicts the life of Lili Elbe – one of the world’s first known recipients of sexual reassignment surgery. Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne will be portraying Elbe, both as Lili Elbe and her prior male identity Einer Wegener, with Swedish actor […]
Two well-known actors have recently been announced as playing transgender characters in separate films. Eddie Redmayne, known for playing Marius in the 2012 screen adaptation of ‘Les Miserables’, will be playing a transgender women in the screen adaptation of the novel ‘The Danish Girl’. ‘The Danish Girl’ is a semi-fictionalized account of the life of […]
