Golden Globes celebratory dinner - Times article about what Eton did for Eddie

Eddie Redmayne sits with Minnie Driver and Anne Hathaway

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Eddie goes to Hollywood! Man of the moment Redmayne rubs shoulders with Anne Hathaway and Minnie Driver at Golden Globes celebratory dinner
Eddie Redmayne's star is shining bright right now, so it's no wonder Hollywood has welcomed him with open arms.
Now after winning the Golden Globe for Best Actor - Drama for is role in The Theory Of Everything, Eddie is rubbing shoulders with some of the biggest stars in town, including Oscar winner Anne Hathaway.
The two were set together at a Focus Features dinner to celebrate the young British actor's win at the annual awards event....

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Eddie and Adrian Brody (x)

...On Monday (Jan.12, 2015), Eddie was introduced to the likes of Melanie Griffiths, Mira Sorvino, Alicia Silverstone and Adrien Brody, though hopefully he wasn't as intimidated by them as he was by the Duke of Cambridge.
Redmayne - who attended Eton College alongside the British royal - revealed that he was a 'lovely man' but joked that he was scared of Prince William on the rugby pitch.
He quipped: 'He's a very good rugby player. I'm not ... I'm pretty sure Will was more intimidating than I was. I don't think I ever intimidated anyone in my life ...
'I haven't seen him since I left school, but he was a lovely man.'
Eddie has fond memories of his days at the prestigious boarding school in Berkshire, England - but admitted that he felt sympathy for the Duke of Cambridge because all the students wanted to tackle him during the sports game.
He explained previously: 'I always felt slightly sorry for him because everyone wanted to tackle the future king of England. He took all the hits.'
The 33-year-old actor - who recently tied the knot with Hannah Bagshawe - also revealed that he is really enjoying married life.
Speaking at the Golden Globes he told Access Hollywood: '[Marriage] is good ... It's only been a couple of weeks,
so that'd be bad if I screwed it up already.' - Full article with more photos here

Eddie with Felicity Jones and Lily Collins (x)

Minnie Driver, Melanie Griffiths, Eddie Redmayne, Mira Sorvino, Alicia Silverstone (x)

Eddie Redmayne Italia Facebook gallery

The Times article: 

Eddie Redmayne, Eton and me

by Dominic Maxwell - Last updated at 12:01AM, January 14 2015

Talent helped the actor to triumph. So did our drama-mad alma mater, according to Old Etonian Dominic Maxwell

It’s another good week for the Old Boys noticeboard at Eton College. Next to the snapshots of David Cameron (“runs the country”) and Boris Johnson (“runs London”), a space is being set aside for the actor Eddie Redmayne (“winner of the Golden Globe award for Best Actor for playing Stephen Hawking in the film The Theory of Everything: bookies’ joint favourite to win the Oscar too”). This success caps not just a fine few years for the 33-year-old Redmayne, but for other boys who spent their formative years down near Slough.

As an Old Etonian myself, I’ve got a few ideas why. Granted, I’m The Times’s theatre critic, not an actor, as anyone who saw my performances at the Edinburgh Fringe in the 1990s will confirm. Yet I did get the same educational advantages, give or take, as Redmayne, albeit 13 or so years before him.....

...Eton didn’t make him. Eton did give him the chance to find out what he was made of...

...I found out eventually that my passion for and insight into theatre was best expressed by writing about it rather than doing it. Redmayne and West and Hiddleston and Lewis found out that they had an acting gift worth persevering with, worth developing. There are all sorts of other people from other schools who have come to that same decision. There are people from other schools who also had the same financial cushion that I daresay made it easier for many of the above to gamble on an acting career.What Eton specifically gave me, though — and gave them — was an expanded opportunity to watch theatre, to practise theatre, to treat theatre as something that matters. “Floreat Etona” as that most dastardly of Old Etonians, Captain Hook, offered just before getting eaten by a crocodile.

You can read the full article here

New fanpic - Honeymoon in the French Alps - Eddie's favorite hotels

Eddie Redmayne spotted by a fan at the ski resort Les Airelles Courchevel 

in the French Alps, Dec. 26, 2014. (Instagram sarahtabet) - via (x)

I love this photo and his beautiful happy smile. He's on honeymoon with Hannah.

Bed hopping with Eddie Redmayne in Oct Conde Nast UK Traveller. 

His favorite hotels worldwide including a glimpse into his romantic nature.

In the 2014 Oct Issue of Conde Nast UK Traveller there was an article about Eddie's favorite hotels, but I didn't make a post about it yet. 
The promo tour that followed the premiere of TToE was a very busy period for Eddie, I hardly could keep up with him.

The magazine scan was published in September and you can read the article on the magazine's website too since Oct. 13.. 

LE SIRENUSE, POSITANO

'This is the most romantic place I've ever stayed. It's run by Antonio Sersale and his wife Carla, who epitomise old-school hoteliers: warm, generous, fun-loving. Every room has a balcony overlooking the sea, and next to the bed is an article by John Steinbeck about Positano. It takes you back to a different era. There is a little boutique where my girlfriend and I bought pillows to recreate Positano in our apartment in London.' 

LE GRAND COEUR, MERIBEL
'I love skiing, and when we were kids my parents spoilt us rotten and took us here. I'd go and sit in the bar and listen to this dude playing the piano; I still aspire to be the piano man at Le Grand Coeur. My other memory is of the most incredible bacon at breakfast.'
SUNSET TOWER HOTEL, LOS ANGELES
'I have very fond memories of waking up at 5am in the Art Deco ramparts of a suite at the top of this hotel and looking out over LA as the sun was rising.(x) The place is infused with such history; you feel it in the fabric of the building. And the restaurant is awesome, too.'

THE PENINSULA HONG KONG
'I stayed here when I did some master classes for BAFTA (x). The general manager is a wonderful woman, Rainy Chan, and the service is so flawless it has a lovely purity to it. It's a gigantic hotel, and seeing how this lady runs the place was fascinating. Everyone made me feel really, really welcome.'

KINLOCH LODGE, ISLE OF SKYE
'This place was founded by the brilliant Claire and Godfrey Macdonald. As a child, I was lucky enough to spend many summers lost in the kitchen here, and there's also nothing like a sub-zero dip in the loch to blast away the cobwebs after more recent dubious attempts at doing a reel, fuelled by whisky. Claire is the most talented chef and set up a stunning restaurant, now run by Marcello Tully.'

NOT SO HOT
'I love staying in hotels, but I have yet to master the art of tipping correctly. I either give far too much or far too little.
If someone could teach me the protocol, that would be great.'

Source: The article on the magazine's website published 13 OCTOBER 2014 with Gallery
This feature was published in Condé Nast Traveller October 2014 scan source (x)

New BBC Radio 1 interview, videos and TToE articles

BBC Radio 1's Movie Show with Rhianna - Dec.24, 2014, 21:00

Radio 1 and 1Xtra film critic Rhianna Dhillon takes a look back at the best movies of 2014 and digs out highlights from her interviews with the biggest film stars, including Jude Law, Joel Edgerton and DanielRadcliffe.
She also recommends the best films to watch on TV over the Christmas period; and previews the big releases in 2015.

Rhianna Dhillon: My movie show is on @BBCR1 in half an hour (21:00) with @JackO__C and

Eddie Redmayne and LOADS of soundtrack music so do give it a listen…

Rhianna Dhillon: Eddie Redmayne. What a DREAM to interview #Radio1MovieShow
Podcast here - Eddie Redmayne interview from 26:05

Eddie talked about the fear of playing Stephen Hawking, about his physical preparation to portray the effects of the disease authentically, and a little about 'Jupiter Ascending'.
Video: 4 Minutes Of Film with Rhiana: 4MOF - The Theory Of Everything & Birdman

 Eddie and Rhianna during the recording of The Radio 1 Breakfast Show on Dec.16, 2014 (video)

NEWS - experienceLA: THE CONTENDERS: The Theory of Everything with Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones & Filmmakers
A Q&A with actor Eddie Redmayne, actor Felicity Jones, Screenwriter & Producer Anthony McCarten, and Producer Lisa Bruce follows the screening at Hammer Museum (Beverly Hills / Westside)
10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles on January 7, 2015.

New futurette

Video: Benedict Cumberbatch #EBtonguetwister with Sienna Miller
Benedict Cumberbatch and Sienna Miller doing Sohana's EBtonguetwister challenge for the
Sohana Research Fund. - They nominated Eddie for the challenge!
http://www.sohanaresearchfund.org/sohanas-tongue-twister-challenge/
Text TONG14 £5 to 70070 or wimp and text OUCH10 £10 to 70070 (UK mobiles) or www.justgiving.com/s-h-f

What three films are on Eddie Redmayne’s SkyMovies playlist? (x) gif here

The video is on my playlist below.

New videos on YouTube

New Indiewire article with three interview video clips (They are in my playlist above too):
How Eddie Redmayne transformed his body and mind to become Stephen Hawking

…since transforming himself into the ALS-afflicted Hawking through a grueling four-month process, Redmayne’s star has been rising, and with good reason. The performance, absent of caricature, is indeed one of the best of the year, and Redmayne is, no doubt, a shoo-in for a nomination…

Vanity Fair: The 10 Essential Films to See to Be Caught Up on the Oscar Race
The number of films vying for year-end awards can feel overwhelming, so we’ve picked the 10 biggies you ought to catch up on to be totally in the know. If you’re feeling extra-ambitious, we’ve included 10 bonus options as well... (via)

Eddie Redmayne, photographed by Greg Williams. (x)

My related posts:
Funny studio spinny with Flashy and Stand UpTo Cancer campaign

London Evening Standard - The Theory of Everything - film review: 

‘Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones give performances that are not to be missed’
..."Redmayne is astounding here, a completely persuasive lookalike, somehow, from the shambling, grinning young man to the contorted figure deprived of almost all movement but still a hugely affecting presence, just through the tiniest movement of an eyebrow or lifting of a lip.

His physical acting is a marvel — embodying the relentless progress of the illness quite shockingly — but he also conveys Hawking’s intellect and force of personality no less convincingly and touchingly. For this he deserves all the awards going this year (it is interesting, by the way, to compare Benedict Cumberbatch’s performance in the 2004 BBC film Hawking, which seemed so good at the time but in comparison now looks flat).

In support, Charlie Cox (Jonathan Hellyer Jones) and Maxine Peake (Elaine Mason) are creditable but it is Felicity Jones who makes this relationship so moving, bringing such grace, intelligence and integrity of feeling to Jane. Her face moves the heart: simple as that. She’s Redmayne’s equal. These are performances not to be missed. It helps, of course, that the pair are improbably good-looking, with matching pouts even. But as casting that’s fine. The Theory of Everything turns this unusual marriage into a love story that speaks to all: it’s that good.”... (via)

Variety: The Actors on Actors Portfolio

Eddie Redmayne in @Variety's @TheAcademy contenders portrait gallery (via)

VULTURE: 

The Toughest Scene I Wrote: On The Theory of Everything’s Broken Marriage

...we talked to writer Anthony McCarten about the late scene in The Theory of Everything where the physically handicapped physicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) and his loyal wife Jane (Felicity Jones) realize their marriage has come to an end. The scene is then excerpted in the article

Eddie on BBC Radio 4 Tonight - LA Times Hollywood Sessions and The Envelope Screening

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New Radio interview - BBC Radio 4: Front Row:
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones; Renee Fleming; Billie Whitelaw remembered

Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones talk to John Wilson about their new film The Theory of Everything 

about the physicist Stephen Hawking


Variety: The 59 Best Performances of 2014
1. Eddie Redmayne, "The Theory of Everything."
In a year of big transformations, Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking was the best. The 32-year-old actor spent four months studying Hawking's life and interviewing sufferers of ALS. He shed 15 pounds and wore prosthetic ears to give the impression that his body had shrunk. Since James Marsh's biopic wasn't shot in sequence, Redmayne had to portray different stages of the disease on the same day. Like Charlize Theron in “Monster” or Daniel Day-Lewis in “My Left Foot,” “Theory” is a career-defining moment for Redmayne, who inhabits his character so deeply, you forget you're watching a performance...

25. Felicity Jones, "The Theory of Everything"
The British ingénue who broke out in “Like Crazy” finally gets an worthy follow-up act. On my second viewing of “Theory,” I was astonished by how hard Jones works–like Jane Hawking did in real life–to prop up her man....(via)

You forget Redmayne is acting as he’s absolutely become the character, 

utterly disappearing into the part. -Chris Bumbray (x)

LA Times: Oscars Round Table: Five actors on faking confidence, the Batsuit and tea breaks

Eddie Redmayne: “.I always find fear helpful. It doesn’t feel like it at the time but after the event, it can be helpful.”

LA Times: 'Hollywood Sessions': Lead Actor contenders - videos

• Michael Keaton on Times Square scene in 'Birdman'
• Steve Carell talks about challenge of 'Foxcatcher'
• Why Michael Keaton loved watching 'Birdman'
• Robert Downey Jr., Eddie Redmayne on watching dailies
• Benedict Cumberbatch on playing Alan Turing in 'The Imitation Game'
• Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne on privacy

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My related post: 

News - Times Talks aired on CUNY TV - Hollywood Sessions TV Series - fan adventures

Video: LA Times/EPIX Actors Roundtable (full). 

Features Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch, Steve Carell, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey, Jr.

Tumblr posts about this roundtable conversation

Related posts with video gifsets, captures and pics from Kirk McCoy's photoshoot for LA Times

On portraying Stephen Hawking: "I was so nervous the whole way through making it. When Stephen 

and Jane, his first wife, saw it and it met with their approval, it was the most wonderful thing." 

Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times (x) more fom this shoot here

LA Times: For actor Eddie Redmayne, a Stephen Hawking immersion course

(an interesting old article - published on Nov. 7, 2014 - with movie clip and Envelope Screening videos)

Actors can engage in plenty of odd pre-performance rituals. But when it comes to moments you’d rather strangers not see, few compare to hanging out in a London park mimicking Stephen Hawking.
That was life for Eddie Redmayne in the months before he took on the scientist in the new biopic “The Theory of Everything.” Redmayne would practice Hawking’s physicality through the ages while a movement coach captured it all on camera. Then the actor would study the footage and go out and do it all over again.
“It was a little like shooting a love scene,” Redmayne said over lunch at the Waldorf Astoria recently. “You knew it was good for the movie, but there was also a bit of 'can we get out of here?’”...read more

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The Envelope screening clips in the article:

(Envelope Screening Series Q&A for The Theory of Everything at ArcLight Sherman Oaks on Oct. 27, 2014 

with Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Anthony McCarten and Lisa Bruce)

• The Theory of Everything - becoming Stephen Hawking 
• The Theory of Everything - Hawking on set 
• The Theory of Everything - getting permission
• The Theory of Everything - Meeting Jane

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Anthony McCarten said in the third video: It took eight years to get that permission, but it was a rich journey and I'm grateful for it now. Someone asked me the other day - What if you got permission immediately? - Well I would not have Felicity Jones and I would not have Eddie Redmayne in these roles and if I was given the choice now, I've wait the ten years to get this type of actors.

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Gaby Roslin Christmas Show on BBC London 94.9 radio - TToE related articles

BBC LONDON 94.9: Gaby Roslin: Christmas Extravaganza

Dan Stephens, Owen Wilson, Sir Ben Kingsley, Eddie Redmayne, James Marsh, Hugo Speer & more 

on Dec. 21, 2014 3-6pm @BBCLondon949 OR http://bbc.co.uk/gabyroslin  (x)

This lovely man & brilliant actor EDDIE REDMAYNE is on the show from 3pm TODAY (x)

Podcast: Eddie Redmayne and James Marsh from 1:32:47

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WIRED:
Felicity Jones on love and loss in Hawking biopic
...Well Eddie [Redmayne, who plays Stephen] and I would say they became like one person, so reliant on each other -- Stephen obviously physically, but then also Jane emotionally. A part of our way of approaching that was in sort of a dance. It was very much physical and emotional.
So that makes it more crushing when it falls apart?
Absolutely, well that's why it was so difficult to play that scene. Jane can't quite comprehend what her world would be like without this person she has spent 25 years so intimately looking after. The connection between them was so strong, so that scene was devastating to play.
Is their connection still there?
I believe so, absolutely. I think they've gone through some very hard times, but there's huge affection on both sides and they speak very fondly of each other....

Felicity about meeting Stepen Hawking:
It was nerve-wracking at first, he's so famous and such an icon that you want to impress him and so you end up speaking too much and then really embarrassing yourself. But what I love about Stephen is he doesn't suffer fools so he probably thought, "What a right pair of fools". He's incredibly sharp and incredibly expressive, with such limited mobility. When you earn a smile or you get a response from him it's very, very rewarding. He's so charismatic and he has a movie star presence about him; it just seeps out of him.

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Newsweek: 
How Eddie Redmayne Got Stephen Hawking to Lend Him His Voice

When I asked Eddie Redmayne to explain how he’d unlocked the secrets of Stephen Hawking, he was psyching himself up to meet the Cambridge cosmologist that same night. Redmayne was nervous about what Hawking would make of The Theory of Everything, in which the 32-year-old portrays both his extraordinary intellectual rise and his physical decline...(with London Premiere video)

The Science Museum Blog: 
How Eddie Redmayne Mastered Stephen Hawking's Voice
Only one person is known to have used the voice synthesiser that now sits in the Cosmos and Culture gallery in the Science Museum: cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who describes the museum as ‘one of my favourite places’.Now a second person has mastered Hawking’s voice, that paradoxical blend of machine and personality: the actor Eddie Redmayne, who undergoes an extraordinary feat of transformation during The Theory of Everything (released on 1 January).

Voice synthesiser, on display in Cosmos and Culture

He depicts how Hawking changed from a lazy student into the world’s best known scientist who, as a result of motor neurone disease, has only the use of a few muscles.

Hawking caught pneumonia in 1985 and underwent a tracheotomy but regained the ability to ‘speak’ using a computer operated by a hand switch to painstakingly build up words, sentences and phrases so they could be read out by the voice synthesiser that is now in the museum....

...One of the pivotal scenes with Hawking’s first wife Jane (played by Felicity Jones) took 15 minutes during an intense day of filming using a hand switch to operate a replica of Hawking’s synthesiser system, he explained. Though only an edited version of his laborious original effort remains in the film, it speaks volumes about Redmayne’s attention to detail that he was prepared to go so far....

The Theory of Everything will be showing at the Science Museum IMAX from 1 January 2015. 

Book tickets here.

ShortList: Eddie Redmayne talks The Theory of Everything (with video)

ShortList sat down with Eddie to talk about the film, we also found time to ask if he’s found time to take in any other performances which might well be up for an Oscar next year. And with Hawking recently stating he’d love to play a Bond villain, we also got Redmayne's take on that – the answer may possibly be the most meta we've ever heard...
Oh, and he's also like to be in the next Avengers film. Talk about ambitious.

Etonline: Palm Springs: The Fest That Kicks Off Awards Season - video (Eddie at 0:26)
Palm Springs International Film Festival opens on Jan. 2.

GoldDerby: 

Oscars predictions slugfest: Michael Hogan (Vanity Fair) vs. Tom O'Neil (Gold Derby)

...Like most of Gold Derby's experts, Hogan has "Boyhood" out front for Best Picture, Director (Richard Linklater) and Supporting Actress (Patricia Arquette), but he sides with me pickingEddie Redmayne ("The Theory of Everything") over Michael Keaton ("Birdman"), who now has a slight edge in the Best Actor race. See latest rankings.
"Eddie has a much more inspirational role and he's a very likable guy," Hogan adds, adding that he's impressed with the personable way Redmayne is handling his Oscar campaign. "He's been absolutely around, shaking hands, smiling. He's just a lovely guy to be in a room with."...

Articles and interviews - Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones on working with each other

GLAMOUR: EXCLUSIVE: Eddie Redmayne won’t sing at the Oscars

...Eddie Redmayne told Leanne Bayley all about wooing the director James Marsh over four or five beers at the pub, about how terrified he was for Stephen Hawking to see the finished movie. He also said that if he wins an Oscar, he won't get up on stage and sing, BUT he did admit that he would "probably" fall over like Jennifer Lawrence because, well, he's a bit "shambolic". His words not ours....

Q: You've been friends with Felicity Jones for a long time, do you think that your friendship helped with the love story of Stephen and Jane?
A: I do, yeah. I've known Felicity for like 10 years and she is the most brilliant [actress]. And I've always wanted to work with her, and what was great about this is Jane and Stephen's relationship is pretty intense and complicated and having a friend playing opposite you meant that we could just jump in and start working together and challenging each other and so it was great.

Q: We don't want to jinx anything but there's major Oscars buzz about this movie. So if you won - hypothetically speaking - do you think you would be more likely to fall over like Jennifer Lawrence, forget to thank someone really special, or break into song?
A: Break into song! Oh my god, can you imagine someone getting up and then breaking into song? Probably both of 

the first two combined, I'm a bit shambolic and quite forgetful so probably all the above....

TToE interview videos

Harper's Bazaar: 

FELICITY JONES ON PLAYING STEPHEN HAWKING’S WIFE

...“We became really affectionate on set about Jane and Stephen – they’re such extraordinary people,” she explains. “We wanted to be sensitive towards their situation and their openness allowed us to explore the way we find humour and lightness in these difficult times.”

One of the film’s major successes is the on-screen chemistry between Redmayne and Jones, with both totally inhabiting their roles. Jones explains that it was their similar way of working which made the partnership such a success.

“We’ve grown up together in many ways,” she says. “We’ve both been acting for a very long time and have seen each other’s work and have a huge respect for each other. We both worked in the theatre at the Donmar Warehouse with Michael Grandage; he’s been a mentor to both of us. So we use a lot of the practices we learnt in the theatre and brought them to this film. We were always trying to get below the surface. We were constantly pushing each other – we cared so much about each other’s performances.”...

ELLE UK: 5 Minutes With Felicity Jones In The Theory Of Everything

Felicity Jones: When portraying real people, you don’t finish work then go to the pub and not think about it. You take it with you. Eddie and I became so passionate about Jane and Stephen, we had lots of discussions – even arguments! It was an intense experience, but so rewarding because it felt like a very special story to be telling.

ELLE: Had you worked with Eddie before?

Felicity Jones: We both worked with Michael Grandage at The Donmar Warehouse, so a lot of the practices we'd had in the theatre, we brought to making the film. When it came to filming together, we tried things out and made lots of mistakes before it 

felt right.

Daily Mail: How Britain's hottest new pin-up, Eddie Redmayne, first broke hearts - as a very convincing girl

...With a full head of ringlets, a dash of period-appropriate make-up and a darling hat, it has to be admitted that Eddie Redmayne makes an adorable young woman.

Indeed, the actor — strongly tipped for an Oscar next year for his performance as physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything — spent much of his teens in female roles. He explains that as a pupil at all-boys’ school Eton, it was necessary for some boys to take the female roles in drama productions.

And it is no surprise to learn that Eddie — full-lipped, with high cheekbones, delicate features and a stardust sprinkling of freckles — was often chosen to trip prettily across the gender divide.

Photos of him playing Viola in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night — a girl dressed as a boy, played by a boy actor in the Bard’s day — show he is undeniably beautiful.

Indeed, one national newspaper critic who reviewed the production gushed that Redmayne was ‘scandalously persuasive as Viola’ in this all-male production and ‘would bring out the bisexual in any man’.

Equally floridly, the play’s director, Tim Carroll, observed that the young actor was ‘quite troublingly beautiful’.

As luck would have it, this cross-dressing performance was Redmayne’s big break....

...An inspirational drama teacher was also a huge influence. Simon Dormandy, known as ‘Dormo’ to the boys, chose Redmayne for a leading role in his first school production — a version of E. M. Forster’s A Passage To India. Next, he played Henry VI.

Dormandy recalled: ‘I knew as soon as I met [Eddie] that he was exceptionally gifted. He was able and happy to be very raw. That remains part of the essence of why he’s such an extraordinary actor.’

After school, and that key turn as Viola, the roles and praise kept on coming. Michael Grandage, former artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse, London, says: ‘Eddie finds an honesty and purity in the moment.’...

MR PORTER: A BRIEF HISTORY OF MR EDDIE REDMAYNE

They’re blue, right?” Mr Eddie Redmayne is staring down at his shoes, a pair of velvet low-top sneakers from Tom Ford. Lovely things, but even in the gloomy half-light of a back room in a Soho members’ club, it’s plain to see that they’re not blue at all; they’re black. “Oh,” he says, shifting his glance to the knee of his corduroy trousers instead. “What about these, then?” They are also clearly black. “Right. And the sweater?” Bottle green. “Christ,” he mutters. 

“I could have sworn this whole outfit was blue.” If you haven’t guessed already, behind those greyish-green eyes, 

Mr Redmayne is quite colour-blind....

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...When we first met Mr Redmayne ... he claimed that the intensity of filming was such that he hadn’t worked since. 

“I’d just finished filming Jupiter Ascending with the Wachowskis, which involved eating a lot of chicken and doing lots of press-ups. I lost all that weight for Theory,” he said. “After inhabiting so many different personas, both mentally and physically, I suppose I needed to take some time off to just remember who I am – what my body’s natural state is.”

As it turns out, though, Mr Redmayne has been working. He spent part of this summer returning to his origins as an art historian, presenting a documentary on the art of WWI....read more

Grazia Daily:

In Bed With Eddie Redmayne! Actor Talks Oscar Buzz With Mr Porter

Alas you can't actually climb into bed with Eddie Redmayne but there is not denying that he is quite the hot piece at the moment, both physically but also in an awards season sense. The actor, with arguably the greatest cheekbones in the entire British Isles, is gaining much Oscar buzz for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything. But, as the MR Porter Journal found out, the gracious actor isn’t taking the hype too seriously, 'please don’t get me wrong, it’s a wonderful compliment… I just hope it serves to get the story out to more people…' ERRR could Eddie get any cuter?...

...The Mr. Porter Journal doesn’t just stop with an interview, with the acting world’s piece of the moment on hand the natural thing to do is to put him in the pieces of the moment for an accompanying shoot. We’re talking lux tuxes and even a robe, which is unintentionally seductive. He is in a robe. On a telephone. In bed. With breakfast. 

Let’s just say we want to eat Eddie for breakfast after seeing this shoot. Side of sausage anyone?...

Why Eddie Redmayne Had to "Take Some Time Off" After Playing Stephen Hawking 

in The Theory of Everything - video