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NEWS: Eddie Redmayne up for the role of Newt in J.K. Rowling’s ‘Fantastic Beasts’

Actor Eddie Redmayne is currently Warner Bros.’ favorite to play Newt Scamander in the Harry Potter spinoff
series Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Some background on the Newt Scamander film on IMDB. 

Variety is reporting Eddie Redmayne is tipped to star in the highly anticipated prequel to Harry Potter. 

via bespokeredmayne
J.K. Rowling about the project: "Although it will be set in the worldwide community of witches and wizards where 

I was so happy for seventeen years, 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' is neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the wizarding world. The laws and customs of the hidden magical society will be familiar to anyone who has read the Harry Potter books or seen the films, but Newt’s story will start in New York, seventy years before Harry’s gets underway." (via)

Eddie in Intel Labs - Q&A with Stephen Hawking - James Marsh interview

USA TODAY: Q&A with Stephen Hawking
Intel creates a new tool to help Hawking communicate

Eddie Redmayne spent time in Intel Labs recently to learn about new technology that helps Stephen Hawking
better communicate. (The new system called ACAT created by a team that includes scientist Lama Nachman)

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New technology from Intel, announced Tuesday, will speed the process by 10 times and simplify it. That has Hawking excited for himself and millions of others with conditions that significantly hinder their ability to communicate.
In his only interview with a North American media outlet, Hawking, 72, talked with USA TODAY about Intel's technology, Pink Floyd and a recently released movie about him,The Theory of Everything...

USA TODAY: How may your work with Intel — and its new communications platform — benefit those who have
MND and quadriplegia?
Hawking: Intel has developed a new communications program called ACAT (Assistive Context Aware Toolkit).
This uses predictive text to speed up writing. It can handle files, mail and Internet, and it can switch windows easily.
It can be operated by a single switch, which can be activated by hand or head movement. In my case, I operate ACAT by a small sensor on my glasses, which detects the movement of my cheek. Communication is very important if one is disabled. Without it, one is powerless.

On the second day of shooting Stephen Hawking visited the set.

USA TODAY: What do you think of The Theory of Everything? Does it capture your life's story?
Hawking: I was apprehensive about the film because it was based on a book by my ex-wife. But I was reassured when I read the script, and even more so when I saw the screening. It was surprisingly honest about our marriage.
I thought Eddie Redmayne's portrayal of me was very good. He spent time with people with ALS, to be authentic.
At times, I almost believed he was me. Those who have seen the movie said it made a big impact.

Eddie Redmayne is shown Intel's new communication technology by engineer Lama Nachman.(Photo: Intel)

..."Absolutely extraordinary," says Redmayne, whom audiences may remember as the earnest movie set assistant
in My Week with Marilyn. "It is the best possible use of technology that professor Hawking uses. These people (pointing to Intel scientists) are among the most interesting I've ever met."

For Redmayne, Hawking was a mythical figure in Cambridge, where the then-Trinity College student would sometimes spot the legendary figure. In researching the life and times of Hawking, the English actor immersed himself in the complex theories that made Hawking world famous in the fields of theoretical physics and cosmology.

"I tried to learn the intricacies and minutiae of his theories, which was overwhelming and intimidating," he says. "But when I met him, his humor and sense of mischief was immediately apparent. He has this lord of misrule quality."

Intel developed the technology with input from Hawking, with whom it has a longstanding relationship.

"Intel has been supporting me for more than 25 years, allowing me to do what I love every day," Hawking said 
in an e-mail to USA TODAY. "The development of this system has the potential to improve the lives of disabled 
people around the world."...

The article contains the short description of using this system and how it works. 

During a 20-minute demo at Intel, Redmayne could barely suppress his enthusiasm for the technology.
"Not only do I get to play an amazing person on film, but I get an education in some really incredible stuff,
right?" he said, smiling.

source: Intel UK @IntelUK

Update Dec.12,2014:
Playing Earth’s Most Iconic Physicist Pulled Actor Eddie Redmayne Inside Intel

The impossibly talented Eddie Redmayne and... me... at Intel Labs. pic.twitter.com/z532r0tqaj
— Jon Swartz (@jswartz) December 2, 2014

And lastly an other new video interview about the film
HUFFPOST LIVE: Conversation with James Marsh about 
The Theory of Everything hosted by Ricky Camilleri

Motto: This film is not a biopic, this is the portrait of a marriage.

Stephen Hawking's Ex-Wife Jane Forbade Sex Scenes In 'The Theory Of Everything'

..."We were very interested to explore that with our actors, and we talked about it and were sort of keen to do it,
but it was something, again, when you make a film about living people, you do have to respect certain things they want you to respect, and that was one that we did," Marsh said... (via)

Eddie Redmayne's Transformation - futurette and articles

Amazing new futurette about Eddie Redmayne's transformation to Stephen Hawking
Article with this video on YAHOO

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Stephen Hawking: “I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well” and that “at times, 

I thought he was me.”...”I think Eddie’s commitment will have a big emotional impact,”

  

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BuzzFeed:

The Transformation of Eddie Redmayne
In The Theory of Everything, the 32-year-old actor went through a rigorous, painful process to take on the physicality and emotional life of famed scientist Stephen Hawking. It’s a performance that could catapult Redmayne to an Oscar.

...“I had to absolutely map what his physical decline was going to be,” he says. “I wanted to do that with a dancer. … Quite particularly on film, people are a bit scared to ask actors to do [a scene] again. But with dancers, they’re extraordinary artists, and it’s like” — he began clapping his hands — “do it again, do it again, do it again until you get it right. That was the rigor in which I wanted to work — not to compromise. … For Stephen, the disease couldn’t be less important. Like, he has no interest in it,” he continues. “I wanted to make sure that this is not a story of a disease. It’s an unconventional love story. I wanted to be totally free of thinking about what my little finger’s doing to play whatever the emotion was.”...

Photograph by David J. Bertozzi for BuzzFeed News (x)

...Before filming, Jones and Redmayne knew each other from their earlier work during Michael Grandage’s tenure overseeing the Donmar Warehouse Theatre in London, but they only really became “great friends,” as Redmayne puts it, while making the film. That friendship was sealed very early in the production during a scene in which, after learning of his diagnosis, Jane pushes a deeply depressed Stephen to play croquet with her — only to be quietly devastated when she sees just how physically debilitated he’d already become. “He’s setting up a challenge, isn’t he?” says Jones. “He’s saying, ‘This isn’t going to be easy.’ It’s totally a test. And he’s saying if you can get through this, then maybe we can spend our lives together.”
It became a kind of test for Jones and Redmayne, as well, after Redmayne asked Jones to tease him off camera when it was time for him to shoot Stephen struggling to play croquet. “That takes great trust, because she basically sort of started in,” he says, laughing. “And she knew where to hit me. I think the crew were all going, ‘This is day two, and they hate each other!’”
Marsh, for his part, was delighted. “Stephen is really angry at this point,” he says. “He’s angry at himself, he’s angry at the illness, he’s angry at Jane. He’s angry at this totally fucked up situation he’s in. He has to show that. Felicity began to taunt him, and he began to respond to it, and it just got very interesting. It was one those important moments in the film where you knew the actors were going to work for each other and off of each other and help each other, even though it felt like it was kind of cruel to be mocking someone as she was doing. But it was very helpful to the performance...Full article here

Related quote from an other Eddie Redmayne interview: "I had this way of working with a director called Derick Martini. I did a film with him and Chloe Moretz called Hick. He had this way of working that, once it is on the close-up, he’d have the other actor mess with you in character from behind the camera. It was the second day of shooting, that croquet scene. Basically, Felicity is someone I trust so much that while I was playing that game of croquet, she was just shouting abuse at me. Trying to get me riled." (x)

#theoryofeverything #eddieredmayne wow. Remarkable transformative performance. Blown away.
— Derick Martini (@DerickMartini) November 12, 2014

Science, marriage, history, challenges - TToE related articles

NY TIMES: Quiet Bohemians, on a Cosmic Scale

— EDDIE REDMAYNE & FELICITY JONES’ INTERVIEW via (x)
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"Were there any moments in the filming that particularly resonated with you?
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Redmayne: The last scene we filmed. Feliss had been a superhero the whole way through. On a normal film, it’s completely collaborative, but in this film, she had to constantly navigate around how my physical limitations affected the filming. So we got to this scene where we’re meant to be sitting in bed, and there was no dialogue on the page, and so we improvised the whole thing. There was a moment Feliss was looking at me and I said, “Thank you.” And she said, “Did you just say something?” And I go, “Thank you.” It was one of those weird moments when life and art meet.

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Jones: We had just had a McDonald’s beforehand, a cold McDonald’s, and there was a pervading smell of filet of fish.
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Redmayne: It did kind of kill the romance of the moment.”

New York Daily News: Physics gets physical: Eddie Redmayne, who plays Stephen Hawking in 'The Theory of Everything,' found the role grueling

The actor prepped intensely for the part in the new movie and then had a nerve-racking meeting with Hawking himself...

...The physical challenges of playing Hawking in the worst throes of his disease were formidable, and scenes of Redmayne as Hawking inching his way dowFn staircases on his back, or writhing in pain, are gripping. Yet Redmayne, who’s become a shoo-in for a Best Actor Oscar nomination for the role, says he was just as committed to embodying Hawking’s puckish spirit.

“What became absolutely clear to me through researching him is that, for Stephen, his disease is secondary,” Redmayne says. “He is truly someone who has lived passionately, and looked forward.”

That doesn’t mean that Redmayne — who trained with a dancer to get his physicality right and had to regularly visit an osteopath during filming — didn’t ache during production. “There were lots of hot baths at the end of the day!” he says.

Redmayne’s next film, “The Danish Girl,” being made by his “Les Misérables” director Tom Hooper, will find him again stepping into someone else’s shoes. Make that high heels. Redmayne will play Lili Elbe, a successful artist in Denmark in the 1920s who was one of the first men to have a sex-change operation.
“After that, I think maybe I’ll take time off from playing real people,” Redmayne laughs. “The stakes are too high. The pressure’s too much, I can’t cope! I’m going to have to go into hard-core therapy.”

Indiewire: Explore The Science And Romance Of 'The Theory Of Everything'
with new clip, featurette and more

HISTORY VS HOLLYWOOD: THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
Fascinating point-by-point study of the accuracy of The Theory of Everything, which, as Stephen Hawking said, seems to indicate it is “broadly true.” - via (x)

The article begins with  the comparision of the real life people (the main characters of the movie) with the actors who play them (Here I noticed a mistake. Emily Watson isn't Isobel Hawking in the movie, she plays Jane's mother Beryl Wilde according to the Focus Features official site).

In the next part the author answered many questions about Stephen Hawking and the film. 

My short outline of the questions:

• Has the real Stephen Hawking seen the movie? - Yes
• Does the real Stephen Hawking feel the movie is accurate? - He said it's "broadly true"
• Was Stephen Hawking really a member of the Oxford rowing team? - Yes

• How did Stephen Hawking meet Jane Wilde? - It was at a New Year's party like in the movie.
• Was Stephen Hawking diagnosed with ALS after a fall? - Only later, when his father noticed the first symptoms, he insisted that Stephen see a doctor.
• Did doctors really tell Stephen that he had only two years to live? - Yes.
• How long did Stephen spend in the hospital during his diagnosis? - Two weeks.
• What made Stephen Hawking want to continue living after his seemingly terminal diagnosis? - The most significant motivation was Jane. "Falling in love gave me something to live for".
• Did Jane Wilde enter the marriage believing that she would quickly become a widow? - "Yes, but at that stage I did not want to think about that," says Jane.
• Where does "The Theory of Everything" title come from? - the movie's title refers to Hawking's tireless search to find a single universal equation for all existence.
• How soon after his diagnosis was Stephen Hawking confined to a wheelchair? - It was six years after his diagnosis.
• What is "Hawking Radiation"? - Hawking discovered that black holes must emit particles...

• To what degree was physical intimacy a part of Stephen and Jane Hawking's marriage? - it isn't in the movie, but Jane Hawking discusses the matter in her book Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen
• Did Jane Hawking really offer free room-and-board at their home to students who would help care for her husband? - Yes
• When did Stephen Hawking lose the use of his voice? - In the mid-1970s, Stephen Hawking's speech had become slurred ... In 1985, he underwent a tracheotomy..
• Did Stephen Hawking nearly die from pneumonia? - Yes
• Did Stephen Hawking ever acknowledge his illness? - No
• How long were Stephen and Jane Hawking married? - from 1965 to 1995 (Hawking left Jane for his nurse, Elaine Mason, in 1990, with the divorce not becoming official until 1995). 
• Why did Stephen and Jane Hawking divorce? - ...it wasn’t just Stephen Hawking’s disease that put a strain on his marriage to Jane...
• Did Stephen Hawking leave his wife Jane for his nurse? - Yes.
• Did Jane Hawking really marry her choirmaster? - Yes.
• Did actor Eddie Redmayne meet Stephen Hawking? - Yes
• Did actress Felicity Jones have the approval of Jane Hawking? - Yes.
• Did Jane Hawking really write a less flattering memoir in addition to the one the movie was based on - Yes.
• Is it true that Stephen Hawking plans to go into space? - Yes.
• What do Stephen Hawking's children think of the movie? - "Tim wrote a lovely text message the other day," says Redmayne, "in which he described how [he and his sister Lucy] were watching the movie, and at the end, when Stephen gets up, they both said the fact that they could see, for a second, what their father may have looked like able-bodied was incredibly moving for them. And in turn, very moving for me." -EW.com
• Is Stephen Hawking's disease the same one associated with "the ice bucket challenge"? - Yes. 

The full answers are in the article.

At the end there are links with short description if you want to explore more about the true story.

New York Post: 

Stephen Hawking’s marriage captured in ‘The Theory of Everything’

Marriage ​​is hard work, goes the saying. But what about being married to one of the world’s most brilliant men — afflicted with one of the most debilitating diseases?....

...The film’s climactic scene depicting their split is widely open to interpretation, according to Redmayne. “Everyone has a different opinion,” he says. “Some people will say, ‘How could she leave him?’ But I saw it as that his life had been entirely reliant on her, and he couldn’t imagine a sense of being independent. Suddenly he had found someone who was falling for him, and reinvigorating him with a sense of pride. And I think he had also witnessed her chemistry with Jonathan when he lived with them. I feel like it was a release more than a breakup.”
The former spouses are said to be friendly today (he and Mason divorced in 2007, while Jane and Hellyer Jones are still married), and both came to watch the filming of “The Theory of Everything.”
“There was this moment,” says Jones, “where they were both on set, watching us being them when they first met. Which was very surreal.”​

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