VIDEO : Eddie Redmayne is A Portrait of Beauty While Posing for Paintings as Lili Elbe

Therefore, the pieces truest to the title character are those painted by wife Gerda (played by Alicia Vikander). When the struggling portraitist asks Einar to pose for her in stockings and slippers, Lili begins to emerge, and Gerda churns out hundreds of well-received works starring her newly-discovered muse.The two tried digitally superimposing Redmayne's face into replicas of the original works, "but it still wasn't quite right.