Addicted to Eddie

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Happy Birthday Iris 💐🎂🎁💎👑💝💞❤😂

“Today, Eddie Redmayne confesses to feel the need to have a break in his career. Visibly attached
to the values of the family, he describes with tenderness and humor his new role as father of little
Iris , born last June of his marriage with Hannah Bagshawe. “I wanted to take a sabbatical after my
last shoot and stay in London, where I live with my wife and daughter. Read, go to exhibitions, relearn
to take time to recharge,” he explains. (madame.lefigaro.fr via queenmarci8284)

"Fatherhood has been amazing," the young actor gushes with unadulterated exuberance. "And I've been so lucky that, with the job I do, I didn't have to take paternity leave. Instead, I just stopped working after my last film, and had a chunk of time off when Iris was born."
(Gentleman’s Journal)

“If Iris has managed to sleep through the night and then you hear a gentle squeak and you go
in [her room] and turn on the light … and the massive grin that’s like, ‘It’s a whole new day.’ That’s probably the greatest thing.” (x)

"...[Iris] does have the habit of knowing when you have a big day, like today. And she was up until four in the morning, so both my wife and I came today with matchsticks under our eyes. Other than that she is on cracking form. Eddie Redmayne about the night before his big day at Windsor Castle (via)

“And it’s that hilarious thing by which when before you’re a parent you sort of hear people talking about that and then suddenly you’re the guy who’s like floating in a sort of constant jetlag with a sort of IV of caffeine,” Eddie said. “So I’ve become that person.” (Ellen Show - Nov. 2016)

The amazing thing about it with babies is that you have one night where you sleep through and my wife and I high-five ourselves, and the next night she punishes you!” - video

Eddie: "...we flew back from New York, and Iris was on the plane, and there’s that fear when you’re on a plane that… and she doesn’t cry, but she shouts. She loves to shout. She goes, “Bahh! Bahh!” [Everyone laughs] Eddie: And I was so worried that everyone was going to be kept up, but most of the people in our cabin were the cast of the film, and they were so sweet. It became the Fantastic Beasts [daycare]. Katherine was looking after her for a while, and then she got passed around the Ezra, who was entertained. It was actually amazing. Hannah and I were just like, “Guys!” mugglenet)

Eddie on becoming a father…‘It’s such a cliché, but the only negative is the sleep deprivation. One night Iris slept all the way through and we were like, “Our lives have returned!”, only we got sucker punched the next night by being woken at all hours. But despite that, you can go into her room mildly furious and then there’s this massive grin waiting for you and all is forgiven.’ Eddie wrapped up filming for Fantastic Beasts last March so has been very much around for Iris’ first few months, but whereas many new parents might not dare leave the house for a while, he and Hannah were happy to fly out to the Rio Olympics with Iris at just eight weeks old. ‘There was a slightly worrying moment when we were on the plane with lots of Olympians and there was the fear that Iris would keep them up and screw up their medal chances, but they seemed to do ok!’

"I’ve never been so eager to meet a woman in my life! I’ve already in love with her!
You know, I’m afraid of becoming this crazy father who terrorises his daughter with
attention; however, all signs are pointing towards that. With her birth, everything,
absolutely everything is going to change...
I think she’s going to change me. She’s going to be the centre of it all. I’m going
to be responsible for her, at least to a certain moment in her life, as a parent. All of
my responsibilities so far have been professional and social in nature, yet this is
going to be something imparted by the nature itself." (Psychologies)

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

#MyEyesSay campaign - MND Awareness Month

Three of the MND Association Patrons Stephen Hawking, Benedict Cumberbatch

and Eddie Redmayne – will feature on posters at key London transport hubs during

Awareness Month. Stephen Hawking will appear on a poster at Victoria train station

from 5th June, while Eddie Redmayne’s poster will be at Waterloo and Benedict

Cumberbatch’s at Kings Cross for 10 days from 13th June. All three posters

will be on display during MND Global Awareness Day on 21st June.

Eddie's poster at Waterloo Station (@bespokeredmayne)

Join MND Association patrons Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch and

Stephen Hawking in promoting and supporting the #MyEyesSay campaign

during this MND Awareness Month.

In 2015 Eddie Redmayne won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Stephen

Hawking in ‘The Theory Of Everything’, becoming a Patron in the same year.

In Hollywood Eddie dedicated his Academy Award to everyone living with the

disease and when he was back in London, he visited an MND Clinic to show the

Oscar statue to Glenn Phillips, one of the people who helped him understand

the difficulties of living with the disease. Glenn sadly died in May this year.

Eddie said, “Learning about the devastating effects of motor neurone disease was

one of the life-changing experiences I had making ‘The Theory Of Everything’.

We were invited to visit MND clinics, and I went every couple of weeks for a few

months so I could find out what life was really like for people living with the

disease. I’m delighted to help continue raising awareness of MND by taking

part in this poster campaign for the Motor Neurone Disease Association”.

Stephen says, “I have lived most of my life in the expectation of an early death,

so time has always been precious to me. I have so much that I want to do.

I hate wasting time.”

Monday, June 12, 2017

Some of the team, that helps Eddie's career

Redmayne is repped by CAA, United Agents, Parseghian Planco and Untitled Entertainment.(x) (x)

Josh Liberman of CAA and Eddie Redmayne attend the 87th Annual Academy Awards Nominee
Luncheon at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 2, 2015 in Beverly Hills - source: zimbio

With Amy Komorowski, Jason Weinberg of Untitled Entertainment and MissCarrieG

October 2014 NYC (x) - another photo of Team Danish

Backstage at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards with Jason Weinberg and MissCarrieG
Source: gq.com.au via eddie-redmayne-italian-blog
In his Golden Globe acceptance speech Eddie mentioned his "wondrous team of agents"

Eddie with his team at the SAG Awards 2015 (source: @misscarrieg on Instagram)

His team supported Eddie (sat at the same table) during the Awards show

In his SAG acceptance speech Eddie mentioned the wonderful group of people at table two

In his BAFTA acceptance speech Eddie also dedicated his award to his team, as part of his
professional family: "...my extraordinary team of agents who have been whipping me into
shape for the past 13 years..." (full speech here)

Jason Weinberg is behind Eddie on this photo, taken when Eddie won the Best Actor Oscar (x)

"I would not be here were it not for an extraordinary groop of people…and my ingenious team
of Dallas, Josh, Gene, Jason, Elan, Carl, Britney, and Carrie and Pip..." (video - transcript)

"Whatever Eddie's got, that's what you spend your life looking for. He had a unique presence,
completely untrained, the kind of magnetism that only great actors have...the most astonishing
natural ability. You can't teach that." — Dallas Smith (x)

Eddie with Gene Parseghian, who sadly died in March (x) (x)

On working with Day-Lewis, Gene said in 2001: "There have been times when he's gone for

as long as three years between films. When I tell people that he's not interested in working,

that he doesn't want to read any material or hear about anything, they have such a hard time
understanding. "With Daniel, his life is more important to him. And

I think I work better with actors who are focused on living lives rather than living careers.
People who hand themselves over to their careers often end up living alone, very alone."