Michael Caine YOUTH
“Paolo Sorrentino sent me a script, which he said he’d written for me. I was stunned that he’d even heard of me, let alone written a script for me, but I absolutely fell in love with it,” the Youth star explains. “I don’t play the lead very often in a movie anymore. If something interests me, I’ll do a couple of weeks on a movie to have some fun, but playing the lead is a hard job.” Caine wears his own clothing.
Eddie Redmayne
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THE DANISH GIRL
“There is a scene in the film, in which my character Lili is still living as Einar, and she goes out in Paris to a peep show,” Redmayne says of his role as a transgender woman in 1920s Europe. “There are men watching this woman dance, and Lili watches through a pane of glass, and then starts emulating her. This woman looks through the glass and sees the real Lili, not just her in the male guise. It was an extraordinary scene to shoot because I hadn’t met the woman playing the dancer before, and we didn’t really get to know each other, but we had this spontaneous and improvised moment together. It was unlike any other acting experience I ever had, and it was completely unique. It was just a moment and then it was gone, but I think it was one of the more important moments in the film.”
Tom Hooper “A defining moment for me on The Danish Girl was Alicia Vikander’s London screen test with Eddie. It was the first time I saw Alicia bring Gerda to life. But it was also the first time I saw Eddie as Lili Elbe,” says Hooper, the film’s director. “I was moved to tears by their extraordinary realization of the scene, beautifully written by Lucinda Coxon. Eddie joked that ‘there was no suspense about who I was going to cast as Gerda.’ He was right.” Redmayne wears sweater, shirt, pants and shoes by Gucci and watch by Omega. Hooper wears his own clothing.