The Hours Oscar winner Nicole Kidman and Monster Oscar winner Charlize Theron are about to star in a movie together – as a married couple.Kidman will star in and produce The Danish Girl, based on a 2000 best-selling novel about real-life Danish artists – and husband and wife – Einar and Greta Wegener, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
In the 1920s, the male Einar (to be played by Kidman) posed as a woman for his painter wife Greta (to be played by Theron).
The finished portraits became all the rage in Copenhagen, which prompted Greta to encourage Einar to dress as a woman.
By 1931, however, the husband took his role another step and underwent a landmark sex-change operation that had repercussions not only in their home but also around the world.
The independently produced film is now in pre-production, says the trade paper. In the meantime, a biopic is also in the works with Kidman set to play the late British singer Dusty Springfield ("The Windmills of Your Mind"), who enjoyed affairs with both men and women.
(Via People Mag)