Deadline’s The Contenders: ‘Danish Girl’ Producers & Screenwriter On Why It Took 15 Years To Get To The Screen

Screenwriter Lucinda Coxon and producers Gail Mutrux and Anne Harrison came to The Contenders Presented By Deadline last month to tell the tale of the long creative gestation of their film, The Danish Girl, which took 15 years to get to the screen.

Directed by Tom Hooper and starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander — both now nominated for acting honors from the Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice Awards and SAG — the film has hit the zeitgeist in terms of public interest in all things transgender. But as they explain, at its heart is a universal love story, and that’s the tale they tell (with some other juicy morsels) they explained to a packed audience of AMPAS and key guild members at Deadline’s annual big awards season event held at the DGA Theatre.

Click on the link above to check out our conversation on the making of The Danish Girl as part of the Focus Features’ presentation.