Gwyneth Paltrow jumps ship on "The Danish Girl"

Maybe Ms. Theron can jump back on? Ugh, I really don't know what's going on with this film. I was always skeptical that it would be filmed and finished with post in time for a 2010 release. Come on Chris Martin, why did you need to support her? Tell her to get back in there so this can get made and Nicole Kidman can have something interesting to follow up...a movie co-starring Heidi Montag...

Source: Yahoo News/Reuters

Gwyneth recently parted ways with "The Danish Girl," a film project she was previously attached to that will star Nicole Kidman, due to a location change, and the blonde told Harper's that Chris [Martin] said something about that decision that made her appreciate him more.

"When I pulled out [of 'The Danish Girl], he said, 'I think you'll be happy with your decision.' I really lucked out with him. He's deeply lovely and special," she said.

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.