The Education of Eddie Redmayne

Source: www.advocate.com - Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Eddie Redmayne is visibly nervous when we meet on a rainy September morning in a posh conference room on the fourth floor of the Shangri-La hotel in Toronto. His latest film, The Danish Girl , in which he plays real-life transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, screened the previous evening for the first time a few blocks away — one of several films enjoying its world premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. It’s a moment the 33-year-old actor as well as cinema spectators have been anticipating since he leapt from his seat in February to accept the Academy Award for his transformative role as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything and declared, “I am fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man.” His role as Elbe in The Danish Girl — the story of Copenhagen artist Einar Wegener (Elbe), whose gender-affirming surgery in Germany in 1930 is believed to be among the first successful attempts — is being called his most transformative yet, with whispers whizzing through the halls of the festival that Redmayne could claim the Best Actor Oscar for a second year in a row. The pressure on Redmayne is palpable, but as he tugs on the collar of the powder blue shirt peeking from beneath his navy cashmere sweater, he insists it isn’t the expectations of his acting abilities that have him feeling anxious. Instead, it’s the opportunity he has to help educate cisgender (nontrans) people about the realities trans people continue to face th

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