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In this Oct. 25, 2015 file photo, British director Tom Hooper, left, and British actor Eddie Redmayne pose for a portrait in promotion for "The Danish Girl" in London. (Photo by Jonathan Short/Invision/AP, File)

Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hooper, last on the Paris barricades, reunite for 'The Danish Girl'

TORONTO – In a pivotal scene early in Tom Hooper’s “The Danish Girl,” the 1920s Copenhagen painter Einar Wegener, as played by Eddie Redmayne, sits in for a portrait his wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander) is painting of a ballerina. Breathlessly caressing the stockings and slippers, something stirs in Einar.

It’s a moment that cues a coming transformation: Einar will gradually become a woman, finally undergoing one of the earliest known sex reassignment surgeries. Einar becomes Lili Elbe, a celebrated trans pioneer.

“I didn’t want it to be an epiphany,” says Redmayne of the scene. “It felt like she had been born, and society and herself had encased herself in this masculine exoskeleton. The important thing for me was the film should see that unraveling.”

Redmayne, the best-actor Oscar winner earlier this year for his Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” has proven to be an immaculately technical actor and an expert of metamorphosis. A year after charting Hawking’s physical degeneration, his conversion from Einar to Lili in “The Danish Girl” again has the 33-year-old British actor being hailed as a likely Academy Award nominee.

It’s the third film together for Hooper (“The King’s Speech”) and Redmayne, who had a small part in the director’s “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (2007) where the queen sentences him to death. “I remember in that moment thinking: I need to find a leading role for Eddie,” Hooper says.

It was while filming 2012’s “Les Miserables,” in which Redmayne played the tender revolutionary Marius, that the two began plotting “The Danish Girl,” based on David Ebershoff’s novel of the true-life events. On the film’s Paris barracks, Hooper slipped Redmayne Lucinda Coxon’s script.

“Tom just said: Will you have a read of this?” Redmayne says.

It was the first role Redmayne was offered without an audition. When Redmayne and Hooper convened for an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival, it was also their first time sitting together for an interview. At times, their combined Britishness made for extreme humility.

“The dream to get to play interesting and in both those cases extraordinary people, it does not come along,” says Redmayne of Hawking and Elbe. “And I also have no question: I don’t think it will come along again. I realize that I’ve been very lucky in a couple years to play two formidable people.”

Reviews for “The Danish Girl,” painterly and stately, have singled out Redmayne’s performance, which caps what the actor calls a “head-spinning” period in his life. He wed Hanna Bagshawe last December, and, two days after winning the Oscar, was back on set making “The Danish Girl,” still groggy from the partying.

“My instinct was Eddie from the beginning,” Hooper says. “I was truly open to any route. I know in a previous incarnation there had been talk of a woman playing the role, which is also equally valid because you’re saying Lili is a woman underneath.”

Some, though, have questioned casting a man as a transgender woman. Sean Baker’s “Tangerine,” released earlier this year, by contrast, has drawn raves for its transgender actresses, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor.

“There’s something in Ed that’s drawn to the feminine, maybe,” says Hooper of Redmayne, who also played Viola in a stage production of “Twelfth Night.” ”In the movie, Lili presents as Einar for two-thirds of it and the transition is quite late, so that also fed into my thinking.”

“The Danish Girl” is nevertheless an outlier. Earlier this year, the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism studied the 100 top-grossing films of 2014 and found zero transgender characters.

“There is a serious problem not only in our industry but within many industries of trans men and trans women and discrimination in the workplace,” Redmayne says. “In the United States, you can be fired in 32 states for being trans.”

“When I first thought of doing the movie, it was considered a hard film to finance,” Hooper says. “I must admit there were people around me who were happy to tell me I shouldn’t do the film. And now people see it as an obvious film to have done, and I think that’s indicative of a wonderful shift that’s begun to happen in the culture where trans stories have become more acceptable.”

Redmayne did extensive research and met with many generations of transgender people to understand Lili better.

“I was incredibly ignorant at the time. It was several years of meeting people from the trans community and educating myself on Lili,” Redmayne says. “To be comfortable in your own skin is a term that’s thrown around, but it’s actually incredibly complicated.”

As played by Redmayne, Lili’s gradual revelation is a knotty mix of emotions — an increasingly confident awakening where a swelling rapture overpowers apprehension.

“The key balancing act of directing the film was balancing shame and joy, balancing this idea that the transition was both a release into anxiety and a release from anxiety,” Hooper says. “It was terribly important to me that we could always feel through Eddie’s performance of Lili the promise of the happiness that lay in committing to the journey.”

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680 new's story of a mother speaking out against the anti-vaccination culture

A Markham mother is speaking out against the anti-vaccination culture she feels has put her newborn child at risk for a potentially deadly disease. Jennifer Hibben-White wrote in a lengthy Facebook post that York Region Public Health contacted her on Feb. 9 to say she and her weeks-old child were possibly exposed to measles on Jan. 27. As her son is too young to receive the vaccine, Hibben-White said she was advised to stay in isolation at home until the 21-day incubation period passes. Below is Hibben-White’s full statement from Facebook: This is my son Griffin, and he may have measles. On February 9th, I received a phone call from York Region Public Health, informing me that Griffin, alongside my mother and I, was potentially exposed to the measles virus while attending a newborn weigh-in appointment at my doctor’s office in Markham on January 27th. Griffin was 15 days old at the time. I was informed that someone who later developed measles sat in the doctor’s waiting room between 1 hour before and 30 minutes before we arrived. I was also informed that measles is regarded as “airborne” and can stay in the air and on surfaces up to 2 hours after the infected person has left. I was then asked if I had had the measles vaccine. I had. Griffin. Griffin had not. Can not. I was advised to not be around small children. If I worked in such an environment I would be written off work. I do work in such an environment; my home. Where I now sit with Griffin and my 3 year old, Aurelia, who has only been able to get one MMR vaccine so far. She is now, technically, exposed too. We are to sit tight and watch for symptoms: fever, cough, runny nose. If we develop any of these we are to call my doctor and arrange to come in under official medical precautions. We are to wait at home, in isolation, until February 17th, after which the 21 days of possible incubation will have passed and we are clear. So, Griffin is now Schrödinger’s baby. Simultaneously with measles, and without it. Until he develops symptoms, or until a further 7 days pass. One or other. And I’m angry. Angry as hell. I won’t get angry at or blame the person in the waiting room. I would have likely done the same thing…you get sick, you go to the doctor. I have no idea what their story is and I will never know. But I do know one thing: If you have chosen to not vaccinate yourself or your child, I blame you. I blame you. You have stood on the shoulders of our collective protection for too long. From that high height, we have given you the PRIVILEGE of our protection, for free. And in return, you gave me this week. A week from hell. Wherein I don’t know if my BABY will develop something that has DEATH as a potential outcome. DEATH. Now, let’s unpack this shall we. All out on the table. You have NO IDEA what this “potential outcome” means. NO IDEA. I do. Unfortunately, I do. You think you are protecting your children from thimerosal? You aren’t. It’s not in their vaccine. You think you are protecting them from autism? You aren’t. There is no, none, nada, nothing in science that proves this. If you want to use google instead of science to “prove me wrong” then I am happy to call you an imbecile as well as misinformed. You think you are protecting them through extracts and homeopathy and positive thoughts and Laws of Attraction and dancing by candlelight on a full moon? You aren’t. I PROTECT YOUR CHILD. We protect your child. By being concerned world citizens who care about ourselves, our fellow man, and our most vulnerable. So we vaccinate ourselves and our children. You think you are protecting them by letting them eat their shovel full of dirt and reducing antibiotics and eating organic? You aren’t. As an unvaccinated person you are only protected by our good graces. WE LET YOU BE SO PRIVILEGED thanks to our willingness to vaccinate ourselves and our children. You know what vaccines protect your children from? Pain. Suffering. Irreparable harm. Death. And you would be the first to line up if you had an inkling of what the death of a child feels like. You would be crawling through the streets on your hands and knees, begging, BEGGING to get that vaccine into your precious babies because that is what I would have done, if I could, to save my daughter. The fact is, there was no vaccine for her. Not for her illness. And she died. She died at age five and a half, and she is gone. And I watch these arguments trotted out on Facebook and twitter citing false science and long discredited“studies” that just won’t stop and Jenny McCarthy quotes and “it’s MY choice” to not vaccinate…and I think…what would you have done if your child lay dying? Would you give them a scientifically proven, safe and effective vaccine and risk the minuscule likelihood of a side effect? Or would you let them go, knowing that at least they won’t develop autism (which they wouldn’t even develop anyway because SCIENCE)? And don’t you DARE tell me that you wouldn’t vaccinate them then. Don’t you dare. You have no idea what it feels like to go through what we went through. So, look at Griffin. Tell me why he gets to bear the brunt of your stupidity and reckless abuse of our protection? Tell me. Seven more days until I know that my baby is safe. Seven more days. How is your week going, anti-vaxxers?

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What an interestin' week we had in Canada!

As the weekend wraps up, major highlights of the week still triggers my mind.

Mailed body parts, a man hunt, shooting at Eaton’s Centre(Toronto’s largest mall) and a flooding at Union Station. Let’s hope for a quick recovery.

Not sure if worse is to come though.

The subway had been closed between Bloor and Osgoode Stations for nearly eleven hours, after both rainwater and sewage flooded Union Station. I’m glad I did not work that day.

My appreciation goes to the track crew, cleaners and everyone who contributed their time and effort for clean up the subway service for both TTC riders and operators.

Waterfall or a new water park in Toronto?

Courtesy of 680News