Saturday, November 7, 2015

TDG promo - SAG AFTRA and BAFTANY screenings in NYC, pictures, news, articles

@matbreen moderating Q&A with Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hooper. Excellent film#thedanishgirl (x) via
NYC SAG AFTRA screening of The Danish Girl Saturday 7th November 2015

 Tom Hooper, Eddie Redmayne, The Advocate editor Matthew Breen (x)


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More Eddie Redmayne loveliness – both visual the verbal – in this photo and description
by Chris Chapman. © Chris Chapman Photography (x) via - for Awardsline cover story
The Danish Girl LA premiere will be on 21st November 2015
a Saturday in part to accomodate Eddie's crazy schedule (x)

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hope72: The Danish Girl London junket portraits by Jonathan Short - HQs here
Taken on October 25, 2015

Newly minted best actor Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne is back in a complete change of pace as transsexual pioneer Lili Elbe. With Oscar winner Tom Hooper (King's Speech) at the helm, and emerging star Alicia Vikander proving herself every bit Redmayne's onscreen equal, the carefully crafted pic will be making one of those all-category bids. (plus interviews audio and video)

...The camera’s height — something which audiences rarely consider unless the position is very low or very high — was raised slightly above Redmayne’s eye line (like in the photo below), offering an angle that changed the contours of his face.
“That was one of the things that Tom [Hooper] hit on,” Cohen explained to EW. “Just one or two inches on the camera height and that did a lot of favors to Eddie’s look and his fantastic bone structure. It shouldn’t really be apparent​, and inevitably we were inconsistent, but we did always try to get that perspective. It definitely affects how the audience views the film.” The Danish Girl is an almost expressionistic film of rich, painterly imagery — though Hooper is quick to point out that the technical elements Redmayne’s performance, which could make him only the third actor ever to win consecutive Best Actor Oscars, were only a small piece of his devotion to the role. “For Eddie, what was going on inside Lili’s mind was always the primary concern,” says the director. “He’s an extraordinarily conscientious and empathic actor and I think everything flowed from inside to out. The emotional journey led to getting the physical stuff absolutely right. For myself and Danny [Cohen], Eddie’s performance was a great inspiration and encouraged us to do our best work.”...

“I am your wife – I know everything.” via
British Independent Film Awards Nominations announced - full list

Alicia Vikander nominated as Best Actress for The Danish Girl, 
but nothing for Eddie Redmayne or the film. (x)
Which shouldn’t worry us too much. He wasn’t nominated for TTOE either, and only one of the best actors nominated for BIFA went on to be nominated for an Oscar, namely Benedict Cumberbatch. Of all the nominated actors in all the acting categories, only Cumberbatch and Keira Knightly went on to be nominated elsewhere. (x) I hope so!


Eddie's entire face laughs - crinkly eyes, wrinkly nose - Video: DP/30 interview (x) cropped - my post
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Entertainment Weekly scans

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - Entertainment Weekly scans (source) via
I made edited images for reading (click for full size), you find the original scans here


"“I read those [Harry Potter] books and watched the films, and you don’t want to be the one who comes in and…” Redmayne leaves the rest of that thought hanging in the air. He does this a lot, actually. “There was a nervousness because what if I read the script and…” Yep. Gotcha." - Eddie Redmayne, on being courted for the role of Newt Scamander before J.K. Rowling had finished the script (x) via


"You get to have a full-on discussion of what wand you have—it’s the stuff kids’ dreams are made of. I was like, 
‘Well, Newt wouldn’t have anything leather and wouldn’t have anything made from a horn. It would be something 
simple and woodlike.’" - Eddie Redmayne, on helping to pick the design of Newt’s wand in Fantastic Beasts and 
Where to Find Them (x) via


"Redmayne spent months preparing for the role by spending time with zookeepers and other animal handlers, 
making him possibly the only actor in history to use immersive, Method-y research to play a wizard." (x) via




olly-77: Our Eddie is just incredible. XD You’ll think there’s a lot of pressure but little research except reading the books/watching HP films and talking to J.K. Rowling and producers…and yet he has to do some kind of research
at the zoo (he probably learnt the lesson after Elizabeth I XD). Now he’s “the only actor in history to use immersive,
method-y research to play a wizard”… You know, “the stakes were high”…

The list of all Fantastic Beasts related articles from Entertainment Weekly: 

First photos of Eddie in 'Fantastic Beasts in this weeks Entertainment Weekly preview

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Friday, November 6, 2015

More about 'Fantastic Beasts' film from EW author

This weeks Entertainmen Weekly will be on stands today. The magazine published further parts from the article of this weeks issue about the movie. We can follow the revealing of new details on the author's (James Hibberd) Twitter.

my collage from the EW pictures - original photos

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How do you make a movie of J.K. Rowling’s slim 2001 catalog of creatures Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them? Well, you make a faux documentary about the book’s “author” Newt Scamander tracking all sort of magical beasties. At least, that was Warner Bros.’ first idea. Then Rowling came up with an even better one, and penned her first-ever screenplay for next year’s eagerly anticipated Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (the Harry Potter author had creative imput on all the previous eight movies, but the 1926-set prequel Fantastic Beasts is her first actual script).
The plot of the film has been kept ultra secret, with the cast under an Unbreakable Vow to not reveal any details. EW’s current cover story contains the first look at the film’s set-up. This description does not reveal spoilers per se — the movie is primarily about what happens after this. But if you prefer to watch the film not knowing anything at all, by all means stop reading here. Eccentric magizoologist Newt Scamander (Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne) comes to New York (for a reason we won’t disclose) with his trusty weathered case. This case is one of those way-way-way-bigger-on-the-inside magical devices, and within are expansive habitats for a collection of rare and endangered magical creatures from Newt’s travels around globe. He discovers the American wizarding community is fearfully hiding from Muggles (who are called “No-Maj” in the States, more on that here) and the threat of public exposure is an even graver concern than in the UK (remember the Salem witch trials?). Fantastic Beasts is the story of what happens when this uniquely skilled English wizard travels to wiz-phobic America and a variety of his creatures, some quite dangerous … get out of their case... Accio EW!
Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander 
An eccentric globe-hopping English “magizoologist” wizard who’s far more comfortable around beasts and creatures than he is around other people. Comes to New York on a quest with his case full of magical habitats containing rare and endangered species.

 Katherine Waterston as Porpentina "Tina" Goldstein 
An ambitious worker at the Magical Congress of the United States of America (aka MACUSA, the U.S. version of the Ministry of Magic) who meets Newt. Tina is relegated to an office well below her abilities after she stood up for the wrong person. She longs to fight for what's right.

Alison Sudol as Queenie Goldstein
Tina's younger sister and roommate, a big-hearted free-spirit "legilimens" who can read minds.

 Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski
An optimistic No-Maj (aka Muggle) factory worker/aspiring baker who gets introduced to the wizarding world
when he meets Newt. Fun fact: He's the Harry Potter franchise's first Muggle main character. 


Colin Farrell as Graves 
A powerful auror and the right-hand man of the American wizarding world's president.

 Samantha Morton as Mary Lou
The narrow-minded leader of the fanatical Second Salemers, a group looking to expose and destroy wizards and witches.

 Ezra Miller as Credence
Perhaps the cast's most mysterious character. He's Mary Lou's troubled adopted son.

“Like all of Jo Rowling’s works, [Fantastic Beasts] is populated with a variety of people and that will be the same in this series over the course of the films,” Heyman says. “There will be people of various types of ethnicities. In New York in the 1920s, there was a segregation between white and black, the neighborhoods were largely separate, and that is reflected in [the film]. But the wizarding world is a much more open and tolerant society where people of color and different ethnic backgrounds exist harmoniously together. There are people of color filling this world in an organic way.” 
“They have this wonderful love-hate relationship,” Redmayne says of Newt and his Niffler. “He’s incredibly aggravating and wonderful at same time. He’s a complete nightmare, yet Newt gets off on his playfulness and single-mindedness.”
bespokeredmayne: Introducing Eddie’s sidekick, the Niffler

Link - Interesting related RadioTimes article (via):
Where is Eddie Redmayne standing? What are those birds behind him? 
And what’s going on with his wand?...


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