The man of science, but hes spiritual. So when i met him as an actor, he is an absolute feast. Then as he went into his story, and he told me of his experiences, i knew that i had to play him in this movie. I thought hollywood was a very powerful agent of change, a very powerful platform to propagate the truth. So i took my story, i gave over my life rights to a producer, David Wolthoff in 2009, and he ran with it. It took him 5 years to finally meet with ridley scott who thought the story was powerful, who had so much faith in my fake journey, and here we are today. In this is the story of a nigerian immigrant that comes to and snowy pittsburgh to tell america the truth about itself. Its an extraordinary story. David versus goliath, man versus american tale. The hollywood news report caught up with eddie redmayne, amber heard, Alicia Vikander and oscarwinning director tom it be hooper to chat about their criticallyacclaimed biopic the danish girl. I first read the script about 3 or 4 years ago, and whats been amazing is that only since weve wrapped the film, laverne cox, when she was on the cover of time magazine, the Tipping Point that felt like an extraordinary moment, but then when Catelyn Jenner came out and started making her show, and using her show to really put a spotlight on trans issues, its been wonderful to watch that education that i had had in the few years preparing to play lili sort of come into the mainstream has been fantastic. There are actually two danish girls in our story. Its an incredible story about unconditional love. Its a very unique love story at its heart, and then its also pioneer. She was one of the first transgender women who actually went through surgery a hundred years back, and it was just one of those events i was surprised we didnt know more about. It hadnt been told. Lucinda coxon, the writer, did an amazing job that just brought me to tears the first time i read it. At its center its a portrait of a marriage going through this profound change, and i was so moved by the love story when i read this screenplay 7 years ago. It was 2008, and i was in early preproduction of the kings speech, and i hoped one day id get the chance to make it. After the kings speech and les mis i was to have success with both of those films. I had a moment in time where i could get a passion project made, and this was the passion project i wanted to make. Here we are in hollywood at the premiere. Its so exciting. Of spike lees drama about Gang Violence in chicago chiraq. Many of the people in the film are people who are in that community. So it wasnt like we were hiring actors other people from other towns. We were immersed in the community. So it was i wont say effortless, but we didnt have to create the environment. We were in the real environment with real mothers, people who have lost their children, and people who are grieving, and people who are trying to make a difference, and take the city back block by block. When youre in the hands of spike lee, and you understand that hes the leader and hes going to steer the ship, youve got to just go along for the ride, but it was beautiful. I mean, being familiar with lysistrata and the story, and understanding everything from verse and the ideologies of Greek Theater and love and war, and being able to put that into pretty cool. There were so many amazing people that were a part of this film, just legends, and our community and the cinematic community period. Working with them i was just it is soaking up so much trying to learn and soak it all in, and at the same time focus so that i can actually do some work. I just watch and try to soak it all in. When we come back, more from let to more Entertainment News on the seth rogen, Joseph Gordonlevitt and Anthony Mackie got hollywood into the holiday spirit as they debuted their ratedr comedy the night before. Thats the point of a movie like this, is to have a lot of fun, right . Thats what this is. Its a big party. Its actually a really sweet movie, and thats what makes it a christmas movie. Its a movie about friends. Its a movie about getting together, time and again, the rituals that we do every winter, every Holiday Season. Thats what christmas is. Ive known joe gordonlevitt for a while. Anthony mackie is awesome. It was a very good time, and i hope audiences have fun watching it. It was really born out of love for holiday movies, you know, christmas movies specifically. I think, it was made by people who really love christmas movies. So if you love christmas movies, i think youll like it. Christmas is about friends and family, and you shouldnt forget that. The most important gift is the people you get to spend christmas with, and i think saying. Chicagoans fight for peace and justice. And, coping with retirement and aging gracefullynew in theaters. Hey, dolmedes. Welcome to chiraq. Land of pain, misery and strife. Everybody here got their men banging and slanging, fighting for the flag, risking that long zipper of the cadaver bag. Wesley snipes, john cusack, Teyonah Parris and nick cannon help acclaimed director spike lee shed some light on Gang Violence in chicago with chiraq. Do you want justice . We give such a detailed description of how the guns get across the border, and the mayor knows about it, and the cops know about it, and its not anything that any one sector can be responsible for except the gun manufacturers and those that are making money on the proliferation of weapons, but 2,200 people have been shot in chicago this year, and its not over yet. If you think about the public outcry of whats happened in paris, which people should, because if youre a human being you believe that all human beings should have the same value. It doesnt matter if youre black, brown, whether its in paris or anywhere else. So why there isnt as much state of emergency about our own cities raises some very troubling questions about what we value, what we love, and whether or not we are sane. The power we have over them withholding just a day, a week, imagine a month, a year. Oh, theyre going to bring the peace. I had to use every bit of my artistic being to help tell this to be told. So its so interesting when you say it feels like a broadway play when you read it, because it definitely felt like that when i was performing it. When you say this actually is derived from a play that was taking place over 2000 years ago, and just to take something that aristophanes created with lysistrata and bring it into modern day is really exciting. It has people talking. People are curious. People really want to know, and i feel like once people have the opportunity to view it and see it its unique. I do hope that somehow, with gods help this will spur a real discussion about guns in this country. Im not trying to take anyones 2nd amendment rights, but we need heavier background checks, and like father pfleger, the Great American who john cusacks character is based upon, he has a great idea. Lets title guns like cars. If a gun gets sold you buy a car, you know who bought the car. Title guns like cars. We will be right back with we are back. Lets take a look at more films on the hollywood news report. Daddy, you will not be bored, because i have arranged the full service for you. A sauna, and checkups with the doctor every single day to help you get back in shape. At my age getting in shape is merely a waste of time. Michael caine and Harvey Keitel star as best friends who struggle with getting older, in youth. Do you know who composed that piece that youre practicing . No, who . Me. I dont believe you. Whats it called . Simple song number 3 and whats the composers name . Fred ballinger. To me, my most successful attempt to do what i do all the time with my career is to make me disappear, and make the acting disappear until all you see is fred, bert, or whoever the hell it is. Its sort of an insult to me would be if someone was sitting in the cinema and say isnt that Michael Caine a good actor . What they should be saying is whats going to happen to fred . Thats the difference, and thats another stage beyond, to which i felt id gotten in this movie. Im as proud of this movie as did you take up his today in a co four drops. Lacks same for me. More or less. More or less . I think that his reason for me. I think thats wisdom for me. Michael, jane, rachel, paolo, the d. P. , the sound operator, we all share these same aspirations. I feel the friendships i had as a boy in brooklyn saved my life. So i value friendship greatly. I composed the simple songs for my wife, and only she has ever performed them, and only she has recorded them, and as long as i live she will be the only one to sing them. The problem is, dear sir, my wife cant sing anymore. It comes and then it goes, and some people will try and hold on to it for too long. My character in the film tries to hold on to it too long, not through plastic surgery, but through her spirit. So in her spirit she doesnt grow up. Girl, and she needs to move on. Shes held on to her youth for too long. I mean this movie really isnt about the vanity and the physicality of aging. Its not really about that kind of youth. I think its about the spirit of youth in our hearts and in our souls. I think its about what youth really is, because youth is. It comes and it goes. Music is all i understand, because you dont need words or an experience to understand it. It just is. Heres this weeks rundown of the top 5 movies in the u. S. A. Youre sitting here crying about nobodys around for you. Im here for you every day. Im standing right in front of you want i fix this mess . A mess . I dont think whats that . Snapshot from progressive. Plug it in, and you can save on Car Insurance based on your good driving. You sell to me . No, its free. You want to try . I try this if you try. Not this. Okay. Da with have returned and a lot more movie ntotoon the happened. From awakening jedi masters to hunting down hateful bounty hunters and feeling the joy of being a mother with power. Packed with Pure Entertainment this is the hollywood news report holiday preview. The jedi, theyre real. J. J. Abrams kicks off the Holiday Season with the most anticipated reboot in cinema history, star wars the force awakens. I actually did have a bit of the serious conversation with daisy who inquired about what the experience was like for me centuries ago when this all started. And you will get used to it and you will be by turns happy and alighted and employed. And then you will what the hell happened. Every once in a while. Because you turn from the natural state of an actor, which is to observe life around them, and now you have to figure out how to do that when all anybody is looking at is you. Mom and dad sold our childhood home. This should have been passed on. All we need you to do is clean out your bedroom. Oh, boy. Its a damn shame that you never had your night here. Amy poehler and tina fey say goodbye to their childhood home with one last epic bash, in sisters. Everyone start cleaning up got room for one more . I aint too anxious to be handing out rides. Real trusting fellow, huh . Not so much. Academy awardwinning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino returns to the western genre with the hateful eight. It is outrageous, the script. Itwiolitical. It is incredibly fun has cinematic references threaded through it. It is a wonderful ride. I was valedictorian in high school. I got into a fancy college. I stay here because my parents are getting divorced. You know what you are terry . Youre like a gas leak. We dont see you. We dont smell you, but youre silently killing us all. Jennifer lawrence and Bradley Cooper are back together with their Silver Linings playbook and American Hustle director, david o. Russell for joy. You are in a room, and there is a gun on the table. The only other person in the commerce. Only one of you can prevail. Do you pick up the gun, joy . Rbx i pick up the gun. The chipmunks wreak havoc on daves relationship in alvin and the chipmunks the road chip. When i say party, you say alivin. Party alvin party alvin the king received word that his dominion was being ruled over by some curlyheaded stepking with good credit. Oh no sounds like your dad is spinning quite a yarn. Oh, actually its getting late. Aww goodnight my little magical cherubs. Eskimo kisses who wants goodnight tickles . Goodnight back scratches hey, who wants 20 bucks . What . Mark wahlberg and will ferrell battle over who is the better father, in daddys home. Take her out. See what she could do. Remember, its one down, 4 up. Everyone knows its one down 4 up. Watch out watch out watch out oh my god lets all just be grateful nobody got hurt, okay . I got hurt theyre attempting something called the ozaki 8. Its a series of 8 ordeals that honor the forces of nature. So this is about enlightenment . Exactly. Luke bracey and Edgar Ramirez put a new spin on the 90s actioner point break. I need to get to bodhi before nal ordeal, otherwise hesne. Bodhi stop were all going to die. The proper thing to do would be to finish him off quick. Hes to be cared for as long as necessary. Get away help Leonardo Dicaprio is out for revenge in the revenant. What happened . We did what we had to do. He was buried right. All i had was my boy, and he took him from me. You understand . Hes afraid. I found a disease that no one has ever seen. Repetitive head trauma chokes the brain. The nfl does not want to talk to you. Youve turned on the lights and given their biggest boogieman a name. Will smith puts a spotlight on the long term effects of playing football, in concussion. Its an immigrant who comes to america and is fighting for his place, and fighting for his process he reminds us what it really means to be an american; the commitment to the truth, the commitment to the elevation, the commitment to family and positivity, he awakens that in all of us. Thats it for this week. Please join us next time on the hollywood news report, where news is entertainment and announcer this week in agribusiness, serving americas most essential industry, with agriculture broadcasters orion samuelson, and max armstrong