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Mark Ruffalo Asks For ‘Compassion’ After Movie’s Transgender Controversy
It’s a delicate subject to debate, but the idea of non-transgender actors playing the roles of transgender characters has seen Mark Ruffalo and Matt Bomer’s new movie ‘Anything’ come under fire, and it needs to be talked about. The movie was recently heavily criticised as online movie fans and members of the LGBT community voiced their outrage over Bomer’s casting as a transgender sex worker, with calls for the part to be recast with a transgendered actor. The actor went on to say that it was
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Eddie Redmayne’s The Danish Girl Banned In Qatar For ‘Depravity’
Qatar has banned Eddie Redmayne’s new movie ‘The Danish Girl’ following online protests about the “depravity” of the film. The movie that tells the story of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe had already opened at a few cinemas in Qatar’s capital Doha before authorities demanded the film be pulled from theatres. One Qatar national tweeted: “I watched the trailer of the film and it should not be screened here.
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Eddie Redmayne Pays Rent For Struggling Actors
In case you needed any more reasons to love Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne, the British star has revealed he occasionally pays the rent for struggling actors calling London an “impossibly expensive” place to live. “The greatest privilege that I had was that my parents lived in London. “And I get letters from people trying to go to drama school and needing to pay their rent.
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First Poster Of Eddie Redmayne As Transgender Pioneer In The Danish Girl
The first poster of Eddie Redmayne as transgender pioneer Lili Elbe has been unveiled. The Oscar-winning ‘Theory of Everything’ star is the lead in 'The Danish Girl’, about the transformation of Danish artist Einar Wegener into Elbe in 1920s. Redmayne stars opposite Alicia Vikander, who plays Elbe’s wife Gerda Gottlieb, also a painter. Over time, Elbe continued to dress as a woman, and eventually they moved to Paris from Copenhagen, where he could live openly as a woman and Gottlieb could be
