The gestating transgendered drama “The Danish Girl,” with Nicole Kidman has had several false starts since it was announced in September 2009. Originally, Tomas Alfredson, the filmmaker behind the lauded Swedish vampire drama, “Let The Right One In,” was going to make the picture his English-language directorial debut with Kidman and Charlize Theron in the lead roles. But for one reason or another, talent kept dropping out of the picture. First Theron bowed out, only to be replaced with Gwyneth Paltrow. Then Alfredson left to direct “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” evidently exiting the project after being refused more time to develop the script written by Lucinda Coxon. Another Swede, Lasse Hallström took over the directing reins last year and then, delaying things even further, Paltrow exited the project in April of 2010.
Based on a novel by David Ebershoff, the film is a 1930s-set story chronicling the first-ever sex-change patient, Einar Wegener, a male Danish artist whose love affair with his wife — fellow Danish artist Gerda Wegener — set him on the path to an eventual male-to-female operation.
While Marion Cotillard was once rumored to have taken over the role, Rachel Weisz is now attached to play Wegener and Kidman—as was the original plan—will play the transgendered protagonist.
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