Development[ edit ] Screenwriter Lucinda Coxon worked on the screenplay for a decade before it was produced. She told Creative Screenwriting: I started in and within a couple of years we had a script we were happy to send out. The actors were very much in love with it. Several well-known actresses wanted to play Gerda, but the subject matter made it quite difficult to find someone to play Lili. We scheduled various directors and with each director came a new draft.
Alfredson said he regretted that reports of him working on The Danish Girl spread before the deal was finalized. He also said that he still wanted to make the film and might return to the project. In September , Marion Cotillard was rumored to be the lead candidate for the role of Gerda Wegener.
The conditions of the deal include the planned day shoot in Germany. In fact, the one we shot was actually an early revised draft that Tom had read back in I did a fairly large rewrite for Tom, but in the end, we used a version with little revision from the original. Filming took 44 days for the scenes in six countries. He wanted it to be ambiguous whether it would turn into a love affair, rather than a friendship, because he saw Lili and Gerda as the loves of each other's lives.
He took the script in that direction to protect the importance of their relationship. The website's critical consensus reads, "The Danish Girl serves as another showcase for Eddie Redmayne's talentβand poignantly explores thought-provoking themes with a beautifully filmed biopic drama". The story and performances come together in the truest of ways to make a film that the whole world needs to see and get behind. Stine with the subtlety of Brendan Fraser. It was actually a decision made by the film's distributor, Focus Features , to campaign Vikander for the Oscar and all other prizes in the supporting actress category, in which many lead actresses have been nominated and even won.
The novel, as Ebershoff has stated, does not try to tell a true story. He not only imagined most of what he wrote about Elbe's inner life, but also created all of the other characters in the book, such as Hans and Henrik, both characters present in the film. The film begins in , when Lili was 44 years old and Gerda was Their marriage lasted 26 years ; they were respectively 22 and 18 years old when they got married. The film only mentions that Lili and Gerda had been married for 6 years. Vikander had to wear blonde wigs while filming the movie, and she also revealed to The New York Times that the filmmakers were obsessed with the fact that she did not look Scandinavian and paled her skin, to make her lighter.
