When the movie, The Danish Girl, was first announced, it was supposed to star Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron, although as she seems to do a lot, Theron later dropped out. However Screen International has now announced her replacement – Gwyneth Paltrow. The star, who’s just finished filming Iron Man 2, will play Greta, the wife of Danish painter Einar Weneger, who, in 1931, became the first person ever to have a sex change operation to transition from being a man to a woman.
The film is due to start shooting fairly soon, under the direction of Sweden’s Tomas Alfredson, who broke through with the child vampire story, Let The Right One In.
While Paltrow has largely been absent from the film world for the last few years, while she raised her two young children, she now seems to be transitioning back to having a fuller filming diary, with The Danish Girl marking one of her most challenging roles in years. However the thing we’re most interesting in seeing, is how they’re going to get Nicole Kidman to pass for a man at the beginning of the movie, especially seeing as Weneger was born biologically male.