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BY SONIA RAOActor Eddie Redmayne said in
a recent interview that he
wouldn’t accept his lead role as a
trans woman in 2015’s “The Dan-
ish Girl” if he were offered it
today.
“No, I wouldn’t take it on now,”
he told a reporter from the U.K.’s
Sunday Times. “I made that film
with the best intentions, but I
think it was a mistake.”
Fresh off winning an Academy
Award for his portrayal of physi-
cist Stephen Hawking in “The
Theory of Everything,” Red-
mayne starred in “The Danish
Girl” as Lili Elbe, a painter who in
the early 1930s became one of the
first trans women to undergo
gender confirmation surgery. The
film, directed by Tom Hooper,
earned widespread acclaim for
Redmayne and co-star Alicia Vi-
kander, both performances nomi-
nated for Oscars. (Vikander went
on to win.)
But a number of critics took
issue with the story’s historical
inaccuracies and overall framing;
in a piece for Vulture titled
“Enough With the Queer and
Trans Films That Are Actually
About Straight People,” Kyle Bu-
chanan wrote that “The Danish
Girl” seemed more concerned
with the journey of Vikander’s
character, Lili’s wife, Gerda, who
was granted more screen time as
well.
Redmayne’s casting also at-
tracted backlash for being yet
another instance of a cisgender,
heterosexual man taking on a
role that could have gone to a
trans actress. (The Amazon series
“Transparent,” in which Jeffrey
Tambor played a trans woman,
premiered the year before the
film’s release.) While promoting
the project in an interview with
IndieWire, Redmayne acknowl-
edged that “there has been years
of cisgender success on the back
of trans stories.”
“I hope there’s a day when
there are more trans actors and
trans actresses playing trans
parts, but also cisgender parts,”
he said. “And I hope — as an actor
one hopes — that one should be
able to play any sort of part if one
plays it with a sense of integrity
and responsibility.”
While looking back on his ca-
reer for a 2018 GQ interview,
Redmayne noted that Hooper
had struggled to finance “The
Danish Girl” before he signed on
as Lili. Redmayne’s proven suc-
cess with “The Theory of Every-
thing” earned potential finan-
ciers’ trust. But by the time of theinterview, Redmayne considered
it all to have been a “complicated
experience,” given that he agreed
with some of the eventual back-
lash to his playing a trans wom-
an.
“I learned a lot and I metextraordinary people,” he said,
“and I still haven’t necessarily
reconciled whether it was the
right thing to do.”
Last year, the actor spoke out
after author J.K. Rowling dou-
bled down on her anti-transviews, suggesting on Twitter that
evolving discussions of gender
identity deny the notion of bio-
logical sex. Redmayne, who stars
in the film franchise adaptation
of Rowling’s “Fantastic Beasts,”
said he disagreed with her. Hewrote in a statement that “re-
spect for transgender people re-
mains a cultural imperative, and
over the years I have been trying
to constantly educate myself.”
“Trans women are women,
trans men are men and non-bina-
ry identities are valid,” he contin-
ued. “I would never want to speak
on behalf of the community but I
do know that my dear transgen-
der friends and colleagues are
tired of this constant questioning
of their identities, which all too
often results in violence and
abuse.”
A few months later, Redmayne,
while still disagreeing with Rowl-
ing, likened the “vitriol” she re-
ceived online to “equally disgust-
ing” harassment of trans people
online and in real life.
The Sunday Times reporter
didn’t ask Redmayne about his
response to Rowling’s tweets — or
the comparison made soon after-
ward — but did mention that
“The Danish Girl” would not have
been made without him.
“The bigger discussion about
the frustrations around casting is
because many people don’t have a
chair at the table,” Redmayne
said. “There must be a levelling,
otherwise we are going to carry
on having these debates.”
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E ddie Redmayne: “I learned a lot and I met extraordinary people” while making “The Danish Girl.”“abjectly terrible decision” to part
ways with political editor Chris
Stirewalt, who played a role in the
network’s Trump-enraging deci-
sion to call the state of Arizona for
then-candidate Joe Biden. “If say-
ing so is a problem with some
folks, so be it,” Goldberg wrote.
He also called out Carlson for
never inviting him on his show.
Goldberg and Hayes’s exit also
won praise on social media from
the two Republican members of
Congress who serve on the House
committee investigating the in-
surrection. “Thank you @ste-
phenfhayes and @JonahDis-
patch for standing up for truth
and calling out dangerous lies,”
wrote Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.)
called it “leading by example.”
But Peters said the departures
were unlikely to make much of an
impact at the network. “While
Hayes and Goldberg arguably
had been the most honest and
eloquent contributors remaining
at Fox, they will not be missed by
the core Fox audience,” he said.
[email protected]can presidential nominee, Fox
News political analyst Kirsten
Powers left the network — with
time still remaining on her con-
tract — to join CNN as a contribu-
tor.
“I started to notice that the
people who were being critical of
Trump were starting to get down-
graded and people who were his
boosters started showing up in
places where they didn’t used to
be,” she told The Post.
On Monday, she expressed sur-
prise that Goldberg and Hayes no
longer fit into Fox News’s pro-
gramming. Referring to Hayes,
she asked, “What does it say that
this person who was on prime
time all the time, who is an
undeniably conservative person,
doesn’t fit with your network?
Who has changed? Steve’s the
same person.”
In recent months, Goldberg
had shown a willingness to call
out Fox News on social media,
portending a future split. In Janu-
ary, he mocked Fox News host
Jeanine Pirro’s on-air commen-
tary and criticized the network’sFox, yelling Stop, at a time when
few other conservatives are in-
clined to do so, or to have much
patience with those who so urge
it,” Kristol wrote on Twitter.
In the summer of 2016, with
Trump enmeshed as the Republi-eran of the Reagan and George
H.W. Bush administrations, who
also left a role as a Fox News
contributor in 2013, though he
did not publicly criticize the net-
work at the time.
“Kudos... for standing up toly unusual for longtime pundits
to burn down their former em-
ployer on the way out.
The only recent precedent at
Fox News is Ralph Peters, a re-
tired U.S. Army lieutenant colo-
nel who called out the network in
a scathing 2018 internal memo
conveying to colleagues his rea-
sons for not renewing his con-
tract as a strategic analyst.
“In my view, Fox has degenerat-
ed from providing a legitimate
and much-needed outlet for con-
servative voices to a mere propa-
ganda machine for a destructive
and ethically ruinous administra-
tion,” Peters wrote at the time.
On Monday, Peters told The
Washington Post, “Emotionally,
I’m bewildered that two people as
well-informed, well-intentioned
and thoughtful as Hayes and
Goldberg could rationalize their
complicity for so long.” Peters
acknowledged that “the allure
and rewards of performing on
Fox can be immensely seductive.”
Their departure drew praise
Sunday night from Weekly Stan-
dard founder Bill Kristol, a vet-Fox’s prime-time stars, who re-
main largely supportive of the
former president as he weighs a
possible 2024 campaign. Their
recent appearances were mostly
limited to straight-news hours,
including anchor Bret Baier’s
6 p.m. program.
“Over the past five years, some
of Fox’s top opinion hosts ampli-
fied the false claims and bizarre
narratives of Donald Trump or
offered up their own in his serv-
ice,” Goldberg and Hayes wrote,
though they offered praise for the
network’s news anchors and re-
porters — “the people who put
the 'news’ in Fox News.” (New
York Times media columnist Ben
Smith first reported their depar-
ture.)
A Fox News executive said the
network had not planned to
r e-sign Goldberg and Hayes when
their contract expired next year.
While it is not uncommon for
paid commentators to exit, often
for new opportunities at rival
television networks, it is extreme-
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Stephen Hayes, left, and Jonah Goldberg, resigned as Fox News
contributors in reaction to the cable network’s “Patriot Purge” series.