inthemix | Lifestyle | Nicole Kidman to play world's first trannie

Nicole Kidman will play the world’s first post-op transsexual in the film The Danish Girl, opposite Charlize Theron. The film is based on the true story of married Danish artists Einar and Greta Wegener. Kidman plays Einar, who stands in for a female model that his wife Greta (Theron) was to paint.

When the portraits become hugely popular Greta encourages her husband to adopt the female identity, which he does, which leads to a complete metamorphosis and a landmark 1931 sex change operation that “shocked the world” and put their love on the line. Kidman is also set to play the role of Dusty Springfield in an upcoming film about the bisexual English singer.

Meanwhile her next blockbuster Australia is in cinemas from November 26. Kidman plays an English aristocrat who travels to Australia and meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and an enchanting mixed-race Aboriginal boy (Brandon Walters). The unlikely trio join forces to save the land she inherited and embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles, only to face the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbour.