Eddie Redmayne in 'The Danish Girl': See Oscar Winner as Woman

He plays one of the first people to undergo sex reassignment surgery.

ByABC News
February 27, 2015, 10:31 AM

— -- Talk about a follow up to his Oscar-winning “The Theory of Everything" performance.

In "The Danish Girl," Eddie Redmayne, 33, is playing Einar Wegener -- one of the first people known to have undergone sex reassignment surgery -- set in the 1930's.

The Wrap tweeted out the picture of Redmayne and spoke to the Oscar winner, who said "it’s been really good to get the muscles exercised again" with this role following "Theory."

Redmayne plays an artist born as a man, but undergoes "experimental surgeries" to become a woman.