'I'm being given this extraordinary experience of being able to play this woman [Lili Elbe], but with that comes this responsibility of not only educating myself but hopefully using that to educate an audience.'
Eddie Redmayne won an Oscar for his performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, but that may turn out to be a dress rehearsal for his biggest challenge yet — playing transgender pioneer Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl.