Eddie Redmayne is The Danish Girl in New Trailer

Watch the first trailer for The Danish Girl, a new biopic from Tom Hooper and Eddie Redmayne about a transgender woman.

There are few cultural topics more potent in the zeitgeist right now than a growing education on the transgender community. However, their struggles for acceptance are nothing new, and indeed, that challenge will serve as the basis in a new biopic from Tom Hooper of The King’s Speech and Les Misérables. And with his Les Mis star Eddie Redmayne fresh off winning an Oscar for last year’s biopic dujour, The Theory of Everything, Hooper has a lot of instant interest growing for this fall’s The Danish Girl.

In the new film, Eddie Redmayne plays Lili Elbe, the real-life historical figure who was born male in 1882 but who transitioned to her true feminine self in the early 20th century with the support of her wife. Elbe was one of the first people to undergo sex reassignment surgery, and she is indeed the titular Danish Girl in a film that also stars Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) in the role of his understanding wife, Gerda.

Certainly looking prepared to win all the awards that it can, The Danish Girl makes her big screen debut on Nov. 27 in New York and Los Angeles.