THR: 'Les Miserables' Actor Eddie Redmayne on His 'X Factor'-Style Audition (Q&A)
"I was making Hick with Chloe Moretz and Blake Lively in North Carolina. One night, we
went over to Blake’s and they turned on some music, and everyone was singing along.
At the time, Les Mis was being played, and they said, “You should audition for that.”
Two nights later, I was in the middle of a field in North Carolina in my trailer and thought,
“Why not give it a shot?” [He ended up filming a video audition “dressed as a cowboy,”
singing “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables.”] I sent it to my agent, [CAA’s] Josh Lieberman,
who sent it to Eric Fellner. The last audition was X Factor style, in a room above the
Queen’s Theatre in the West End, where Les Mis is playing. And behind a panel were the
Working Title producers, Cameron Mackintosh, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Alain Boublil,
Tom Hooper and Nina Gold, the music director. I never felt so terrified in my life."
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