In December 2014, Redmayne responds to that by marrying his longtime girlfriend, Hannah Bagshawe. To wit: November 2014, Cumberbatch announces his engagement with his longtime partner, theater director Sophie Hunter. In some ways, they were the same genre of actor playing the same beautifully tragic role, so, naturally, in real life they were locked in a match of who can be more charming, at the right time, for maximum publicity. When Redmayne was in the thick of Oscar talk for The Theory of Everything, one of his rivals was fellow weird Brit Benedict Cumberbatch, also playing a genius in The Imitation Game. But he has been cast all wrong, and his actorly neediness makes me recoil every time I see it. He has the correct actor training, a Tony for appearing in a Mark Rothko play on Broadway, and what looks to be an interesting film career. Alien beauty deserves alien attitude and Redmayne, bless his heart, is a people pleaser to the hilt. It is, in some way, the sort of beauty that could make movie stars - and yet, paired with his puckish demeanor, it's just all wrong. He can look attractive and he can look very weird, he can pout and look wrong and then stunningly beautiful. Lush lips, symmetrical eyes, and freckles and redheaded coloring that will keep him boyish until age 46. He is possessed of something like beauty, I suppose, if you look at it a certain way. He's all flutters and manners, a voice that's thin and reedy, and when he's the central character - as in Les Miserables or his Oscar-winning role in The Theory of Everything - he's exudes an A-student's overpreparedness with the love-me! neediness of a drama kid. Here's the thing I have never cottoned to Eddie Redmayne in any movie I've seen him in. He's a strange creature of an actor, an awful match for Vikander's natural earthiness. Whether he's playing Lili as a man, Einar, or first discovering Einar's true identity, Redmayne plays every scene at a 10, pitching it to the mezzanine as a lost little girl, desperately trying to come out of this skinny man's body. You'd be forgiven for thinking that The Danish Girl is a good film: until Eddie Redmayne takes the scene. Slate-blue walls give way to the golden curls of Alicia Vikander's hair (in her Oscar winning role as Elbe's wife, Gerda) the glint of golds and velvet brocades and the way that red lipstick makes an actor look more vibrant and alive. In The Danish Girl, Tom Hooper's plodding Oscar-bait biography of painter Lili Elbe (Eddie Redmayne), the first transgender person to receive gender reassignment surgery, every shot is as lush and glowing as a painting.
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