{"id":1531,"date":"2015-12-07T01:47:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T09:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2015-12-07T01:47:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T09:47:26","slug":"was-kidman-gonna-be-the-danish-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/12\/07\/was-kidman-gonna-be-the-danish-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Kidman gonna be the Danish Girl?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time the topic of <strong><em>The Danish Girl<\/em><\/strong> came up in conversation, I told people that the film was originally going to star <strong>Nicole Kidman <\/strong>instead of <strong>Eddie Redmayne<\/strong>.\u00a0 I told this story to oodles of people and, since I say most things with enormous authority and conviction, nobody ever questioned me.\u00a0 Then one person said, &#8220;That doesn&#8217;t sound right. \u00a0Are you sure?&#8221;\u00a0 Hmm &#8211; could I be wrong?\u00a0 Had I been (inadvertently) disseminating incorrect information?\u00a0 Me?\u00a0 Who prides himself on accuracy as much as being multi-orgasmic?\u00a0 Once again, hands on keyboard.\u00a0 PHEW, I was right.\u00a0 When the project was announced in 2009, <em>Variety<\/em> said that <strong>Gwyneth Paltrow <\/strong>would play Greta and <strong>Nicole Kidman <\/strong>would play Einar.\u00a0 Once Gwyneth dropped out (some issue about location shooting), <strong>Uma <\/strong>briefly replaced her.\u00a0 But why did Nicole leave the project?\u00a0 Who knows &#8211; these things happen all the time.\u00a0 <strong><em>Sister Act<\/em><\/strong> was written for <strong>Bette Midler <\/strong>and ended up starring <strong>Whoopi Goldberg<\/strong>, and they are certainly not the same type.\u00a0 But, to be fair, I&#8217;d have bought Kidman as transgendered in a hot minute!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time the topic of The Danish Girl came up in conversation, I told people that the film was originally going to star Nicole Kidman instead of Eddie Redmayne.\u00a0 I told this story to oodles of people and, since I say most things with enormous authority and conviction, nobody ever questioned me.\u00a0 Then one person<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}