She certainly likes to pick the odd ones...

And honestly, I'm glad that she does. It'll be really interesting to see what Alfredson does with this fascinating material. Hopefully it will be more than another run-of-the-mill "weird person biopic". And if "Let the Right One In" is any indication, it should be...

Source: Slashfilm

Tomas Alfredson, responsible for one of the best films of last year, Let the Right One In, has decided to follow up with The Danish Girl. The project is an adaptation of the fictionalized book and account of the same name regarding Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe, who in 1931 received the first official sex change operation. Nicole Kidman, who knows a thing or two about aesthetic surgery, will portray Wegener/Elbe; meanwhile, Charlize Theron, who was attached (no pun) to play the wife of Kidman’s character, is no longer involved.

Here’s some background info on Wegener/Elbe from Wikipedia: “It is believed that Elbe was probably intersexual; she looked more female than male, and may have had Klinefelter’s Syndrome or some other SRY gene transfer condition. As most of the known intersex conditions were not formally identified until after Lili’s death, it is difficult to be exact. She certainly had feminine body and facial features that allowed her to pass as a young woman better than she passed as a man. When presenting in public as a man, she was often taken for a young woman masquerading as a man in trousers.” Elbe died in later years, the result of complications from a related surgery.