The Danish Girl for Alicia Vikander is “aged badly”

Despite won the Oscar for the best support actress for The Danish Girl, Alicia Vikander He has something to laugh at the Tom Hooper movie who made him famous. In the film, released in the room in 2015, everything revolved around the character of Lili Elbethe second person to be identified as a transsexual and to have undergone a sexual reassignment surgery played by Eddie Redmayne. Vikander in the film was the protagonist’s wife: a very difficult role on which the actress returned to a recent interview with Vogueexplaining that for her The Danish Girl it is strongly dated And that many criticisms he received at the time of the exit in the room at the bottom were deserved.

To indign the spectators, as someone may remember, was the choice, by the director and production, to interpret Lili to a cisgender actor: «I am the first person to say that the film already appears extremely dated, which I think is a good thing. At the time he played at least a key role in throwing light on the lives of trageder people. I hope that in some way it was a pioneer in this sense, allowing the art to deal with certain themes, “said Vikander echoing to Redmayne himself who, several years after the release of The Danish Girl, admitted to Sunday Times That accepting the role of Lili Elbe had been a mistake.

“Now I wouldn’t accept it. I made that animated movie by the best intentions, but I think it was a mistake. The big discussions on the casting depend that some people do not have the right to express themselves. There must be equality, otherwise the controversies will never end ». Vikander, for his part, added that he had learned a lot from the error of his colleague who, at the time, tried to appease the storm saying that to The Danish Girl They had worked several transgender people. The actor also said that he saw nothing wrong with the fact that a cisgender impersonated a transgender person, as long as he did it with commitment and respect.