Gerda is reeling with shock at the reemergence of Lili, Hooper (The Kings Speech) says.
That bedroom has a real life backstory almost as fascinating as anything inThe Danish Girl.
Notice the baroque wood paneling and curvaceous molding on the headboard and nightstands.
And the movies relatively low $15 million budget prohibited the costly building of a set from scratch.
And so the filmmakers turned to the world of auctions.
But not of the Sothebys variety.
Eve has this incredible magic touch, Hooper says.
If Id looked online, Id never have found it.
It was a pretty price but it was a really good deal.
We never could have built what you see onscreen for that amount.
It was scummy from the chickens having pooped all over it.
And so we cleaned it all off and gave it a new life.
But it was amazing.
We looked and it already had a patina all its own.
All those textures had a history.
Im sure that bedroom had lots of stories to tell of its own.
And its life goes on.
Once the film wrapped shooting on the Parisian scene, the filmmakers then relisted the set on eBay.
And we sold it for a profit, Hooper says, which we put back into the production budget.
As the eBay motto says, Buy it, sell it, love it.
Watch the trailer forThe Danish Girl, which is expanding to more theaters over the next month, below.
