Eddie Redmayne says that it was a “mistake” of him to play a transgender woman in The Danish Girl.
However, the film faced criticism for casting Redmayne, a cisgender man, as a trans woman.
In a new interview with The Sunday Times, Redmayne was asked whether he would play the role again if he were offered it today.
Speaking about starring in the show opposite Jessie Buckley’s Sally Bowles, Redmayne added: “Of all the characters I’ve ever read, this one defies pigeonholing.