With the release of Eddie Redmayne's "The Danish Girl" trailer, movie buffs have already begun generating award show hype for the "Theory Of Everything" actor's performance.
According to the trailer Redmayne plays the role of transgender character Lili Elbe who comes into her own during the 1900s. The film is based on a novel of the same name written by David Ebersoff.
The film directed by Tom Hooper chronicles the life and times of Elbe, one of the first transgender personalities to successfully undergo reassignment surgery, and traces the supportive role of his wife, Gerda Gottlieb, played by Swede actress Alicia Vikander, according to People.
The Oscar winning actor's character Wegner in the script poses as a woman for his wife who is an artist during a sketch and comes into a new awakening about his sexuality at that moment. Thereafter the couple move to Paris and Wegner lives as Lili Elbe, a transgender personality and is known as "The Danish Girl" as implied in the movie's title.
With the film version of "Les Miserables" wrapping up production in 2011, the script of "The Danish Girl" was presented to Redmayne for his views by Hooper who has won an Oscar for his work on "The King's Speech."
The script for the film was put together by Lucinda Coxon who artfully tells the tale of Wegener's tranformation into Lili. Redmayne said on reading the script he found it "profoundly moving."
The actor told Out in an interview that while reading the script he knew nothing about the subject and the script told a story of authenticity and the "courage of an individual to be yourself" which were the traits of the script that attracted him to it.
In the trailer, donning a curly red wig and sharing a kiss with a man is Redmayne as he has never been seen by viewers before.
The "Jupiter Ascending" star told the publication that he spent three years learning about the transgender community and learning from members in order to prepare for this role.
The movie opens in theaters in the United States on Nov. 27