Eddie Redmayne on his “problematic” role playing trans in ‘The Danish Girl’: “I learned my lesson”

I have a history of parts that I’ve played, that have been problematic in some of those choices, and I’ve spent a lot of time ruminating on those things and wondering what I would do differently. When it came to ‘Cabaret‘, I’d learned my lesson, and I didn’t take the part on without knowing exactly what I was doing.

As far as what he exists as on the page [the musical is based on the 1939 novel ‘Goodbye to Berlin‘ by Christopher Isherwood], there is no character description for him [the Emcee]. He doesn’t exist in the book and now has been played iconically by queer actors [Joel Grey, Alan Cumming].

Certainly, for example, in the Alan Cumming version [the 1999 Broadway revival], at the end of

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