Will Nicole Kidman’s latest role as a trans artist turn a few heads and invigorate the starlet’s career?

Kidman is set to play Danish painter Einar Wegener in the film The Danish Girl. Kidman has played a troubled artist before, including her Oscar award winning performance as Virginia Wolf in The Hours, but Wegener was more than just an artist. In 1930, Einar Wagner was the first person to undergo a sex change, changing her name to Lili Elbe and living as a woman.

Directed by Tomas Alfredson, who brought strange vampire flick Let The Right One In to cinema screens, Kidman is also the film’s producer and sources say the film will go into production soon.

Based on a novel about Lile Elbe’s life, the film was also set to star Charlize Theron, as Elbe’s wife, but Theron is said to have been unable to commit to the project.

After five separate operations that were part of her sex change, Elbe died in 1931 due to complications during surgery. Revolutionary at the time, the surgeries involved removing Elbe’s testicles and attempting to transplant a uterus so Elbe could bear children.

Will the interesting role bring Kidman’s career back to life? Let’s cross our fingers.