--- title: Alicia Vikander Eddie Redmayne in 'The Danish Girl' Trailer description: "This is not my body — I have to let it go" canonical: https://time.com/4018521/alicia-vikander-eddie-redmayne-danish-girl-trailer/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-01T14:00:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T10:36:21.609Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch Eddie Redmayne Become Lili Elbe in First Trailer for 'The Danish Girl' og:description: "This is not my body — I have to let it go" og:url: https://time.com/4018521/alicia-vikander-eddie-redmayne-danish-girl-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb2ef0c97e7330075/698861cb524fc01038df453e/the-danish-girl-eddie-redmayne.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The-Danish-Girl-Eddie-Redmayne og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Eddie Redmayne Become Lili Elbe in First Trailer for 'The Danish Girl' twitter:description: "This is not my body — I have to let it go" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb2ef0c97e7330075/698861cb524fc01038df453e/the-danish-girl-eddie-redmayne.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Eddie Redmayne Become Lili Elbe in First Trailer for _The Danish Girl_ by [Jessica Dershowitz / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jessica Dershowitz / Entertainment Weekly Sep 1, 2015 2:00 PM UTC  Eddie Redmayne stars as Lili Elbe, in Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl. Eddie Redmayne stars as Lili Elbe, in Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl.Focus Features by [Jessica Dershowitz / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jessica Dershowitz / Entertainment Weekly Sep 1, 2015 2:00 PM UTC Eddie Redmayne thinks Lili Elbe’s thoughts, and dreams her dreams, in the first trailer for Tom Hooper’s _The Danish Girl_. The film, based on David Ebershoff’s historical novel, tells the story of the real-life Elbe, who was assigned male at birth in 1882 and transitioned to female in the 1920s with the support of her wife, Gerda (Alicia Vikander), becoming one of the first people to undergo gender confirmation surgery. “When I first read the script, I wept three times,” Hooper (_Les Miserables_) said in EW’s fall movie preview. “It connected to me in similar ways to _The King’s Speech_, where a man is locked in his body by a stammer and he’s helped by a tender friendship. With Lili I was moved by the power of love as an agent of transformation, even when the world was against it.” _The Danish Girl_ opens in New York and Los Angeles on Nov. 27, and will expand to additional cities in December. Watch the trailer above, and [head here for more on the film](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/13/danish-girl-eddie-redmayne-preview). _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/01/danish-girl-trailer-eddie-redmayne) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4018521/alicia-vikander-eddie-redmayne-danish-girl-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4018521/alicia-vikander-eddie-redmayne-danish-girl-trailer/"},"headline":"Watch Eddie Redmayne Become Lili Elbe in First Trailer for The Danish Girl","datePublished":"2015-09-01T14:00:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:36:21.609Z","description":"\"This is not my body — I have to let it go\"","url":"https://time.com/4018521/alicia-vikander-eddie-redmayne-danish-girl-trailer/","keywords":["movies","eddie redmayne"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb2ef0c97e7330075/698861cb524fc01038df453e/the-danish-girl-eddie-redmayne.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessica Dershowitz / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb2ef0c97e7330075/698861cb524fc01038df453e/the-danish-girl-eddie-redmayne.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The-Danish-Girl-Eddie-Redmayne","caption":"Eddie Redmayne - The Danis Girl","creditText":"Focus Features","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4018521/alicia-vikander-eddie-redmayne-danish-girl-trailer/","name":"Watch Eddie Redmayne Become Lili Elbe in First Trailer for The Danish Girl"}}]}] ```