While the loss of star Charlize Theron would make any movie producer’s head hurt, the minds behind the true-life sex-change drama The Danish Girl got their Hollywood star wattage after all in Academy Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman.

The Australian beauty will star in the film about Einar Wegener, a Danish painter who became the first person to go through a sex-change operation to become a woman in 1931. Theron was set to play Gerda, Wegener’s wife.

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• Academy Award
• Charlize Theron
• Einar Wegener
• Nicole Kidman
• The Danish Girl
• Tomas Alfredson