Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Kidman team as husband and wife?

Strange but true, Gwyneth Paltrow has agreed to play wife to Nicole Kidman in the new movie project, The Danish Girl. The movie an adaptation of the David Ebershoff novel is about the first post-operative transsexual  Einar Wegener.  A portrait painter, Wegener, first experienced her husband’s gender issues when he stepped in for a female model she was working with. He ended up becoming Lili Elbe, and Greta stood by him. Kidman will play  the lead role of Wegener, both before and after the operation, and Paltrow has been cast as Wegener’s wife Greta.  With two such strong leads and material like this, Oscar considerations for this movie seem likely. Though I picture Paltrow being the man in the relationship (just saying).  will be directed by Thomas Alfredson whose last project was Let The Right One In.

Source: Variety