Paltrow joins Kidman for gender-bending 'Danish Girl'

LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winners Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Kidman are to play husband and wife in an upcoming film about the world's first transsexual, it was reported Monday.
Paltrow, 37, and Kidman 42, will play artists Greta and Einar Wegener in "The Danish Girl," entertainment industry newspaper Daily Variety reported.
Einar Wegener, who will be played by Kidman, was a male artist who underwent groundbreaking surgery to become a woman in 1931 after pretending to be a female model in a series of successful portraits painted by Greta Wegener.