Addicted to Eddie

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Video Eddie, Maisie and Tom make Hognob figures

The cast of Early Man learn how to make their very own Hognob. Watch the full video below and see
Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston and Maisie Williams master the art of model making!

Hognob making masterclass with Aardman's very own Jim Parkyn!

Sources: @StudiocanalUK and Early Man on YouTube

My gifset on tumblr

Tumblr posts: Early man related interviews, BTS and promo

Nick Park on Eddie Redmayne's casting:

"Yes, voice casting has always been very important to our projects, right from the days when

members of the public voiced Creature Comforts. Eddie was great. He was perfect. I knew it

as soon as he agreed to come in and test for it. I'd seen him playing a novice monk in this film

called Black Death, playing a rather quiet character, understated and vulnerable. I loved those

qualities in him as an actor. He asked me, 'How old is Dug?' I said, 'About 15.' Then he went,

'Alright, Hognob!' and started acting as this teenager. I thought it was brilliant."

- .cineworld interview

"I’d seen Eddie in a film called Black Death, in which he played a young monk in the Middle

Ages. He had a sort of vulnerable feeling, which I really liked. I was looking for someone to

play a teenage caveman, who is boyish and eager – but not necessarily confident. That vulnerable

side of him really worked. The first time I met him and we worked on Dug’s voice, he said to me,

‘How about if we go a bit younger?’ I was amazed by how he played Dug as a dishevelled 15-year-

old, and it really appealed to me." - mymbuzz

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Video: Aardman Studios tour with Eddie and Maisie

Behind the scenes look at Aardman's new movie Early Man, in which voice actors Eddie Redmayne
and Maisie Williams come face to face with their characters for the first time. They are taken on a
behind the scenes tour of Aardman's Bristol studio. (Cineworld). I think the tour was on
17th January 2017. Maisie Williams and Aardman Animations tweeted about it.
Early Man is out in the UK now, you can book tickets here.

“So Maisie and I got dressed up as cave people, with huge spears, and started fighting it out.
And that was how I got into character…” Eddie said in an Early Man World premiere interview,
that he found liberating to do a role away from the camera. - My gifset from the video is here.

"I grew up with all of the stuff, that Aardman did, and I was always completely seduced by it.
He (Nick Park) showed me the model, and it did have that massive grin, and those teeth,
that you so relate to Wallace and Gromit."

"It feels nostalgic, and yet incredibly funny."

Early Man BTS tumblr posts
Early Man promo posts on tumblr

“I’m one of those actors that likes to do eight million takes, there’s never enough time to do as
much as you want. What’s lovely here is each time you do a session, you do maybe four or
five scenes and you can just give as many varieties as you want. You can improvise around it,”
Redmayne noted. “It would be quite embarrassing if there’s video footage of me doing it
because I got really physically into it and completely over-the-top to the point where they’d
go, ‘We can hear the jingle of your keys, can you calm down a little bit?’.” (digitalspy)

Early Man interviews on tumblr

My video playlist of trailers, featurettes and TV spots

RadioTimes: Behind the scenes of Early Man with Nick Park, 33 animators and 37 sets
Den of Geek: Early Man: behind the scenes of Aardman's latest movie