It turns out that Nicole Kidman will be playing Lili Elbe in the upcoming movie The Danish Girl. Her wife will be played by Charlize Theron.
Thoughts:
- The movie is based on the book The Danish Girl
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- With Theron & Kidman playing them, this just seems like another excuse for “hot lesbian innuendo.”
- I’m also a little perturbed by the “play a transsexual / get an oscar” trend.
- Still, i’ve always expected the wife of a trans woman to be played by someone like Kathy Bates, & at her worst, too, so Charlize Theron isn’t so bad. Except that the book seems to imply her husband’s transsexuality was her own fault, and in the reviews of the book, it seems she comes off as a cheerleadery sort.