Kidman is the 'Danish Girl'
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Nicole Kidman |
This is a turn up. A couple of months ago it was announced that Tomas
Alfredson, the director of 'Let the Right One In', would next be filming
an adaptation of John Le Carre's 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' but
before that he'll be making 'The Danish Girl', with Nicole Kidman.
Based on a 2000 novel by David Ebershoff, it's the true story of
Einar Wegener / Lili Elbe, the first ever person to undergo sex-change
surgery in the early 1930s. She died in 1931 from complications during
her fifth operation, which was intended to give her a working uterus to
make motherhood a possibility. Her saga was a sensation in contemporary
newspapers in Germany and Denmark.
Variety
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