Addicted to Eddie: Quotes from the 'Madame Figaro' interview

Friday, March 31, 2017

More photos from the Eddie Redmayne photoshoot for 'Madame Figaro Magazine'

..."I have always conceived fashion as an art. My father passed to me his sense of style, and

he always told me that a well-cut suit is like an armor that gives confidence. But to work with

a photographer, I also need to invent a story and live it, to slip into someone else's shoes. Here,

I thought of James Dean, Michael Caine ... Difficult to split their personality of their game. "

We can better understand what his partner Michelle Williams meant about the shooting of My

Week With Marilyn, by Simon Curtis, where he played a young assistant-director of love for the

vulnerable Hollywood star. "Eddie does not interpret his character. He embodies it totally and with

such intensity that it becomes disturbing. I had this strange sensation of having his character

in front of me, who suddenly appeared out of the big screen to play Eddie Redmayne"...

He sees himself at 10, with his hair "color fire", as he describes himself laughing,

auditioning for a musical comedy of Irving Berlin. "I found myself in the midst of

seven hundred kids. I was terrified and I was not taken. But as Oscar Wilde said:

"You always have to aim for the moon, because even if you fail, you land in the stars.

"Over the course of his career, Redmayne has more than once " landed in the stars "...

His friend Jennifer Lawrence, also impressed by his performance (as

Stephen Hawking in TToE), had said to him: "You are extraordinary, but

you have to be a masochist to sacrifice your body and mind to the cinema ..."

In this photo studio in Tottenham, Redmayne blushed and burst out laughing

when he was reminded of Lawrence's ironical praise: "Like every actor,

I surely have a certain amount of masochism, aggravated by an obsessive

desire to restore as pure as possible the complexity of a character or a text,

he acknowledges. Often people ask me if I do not get bored playing the same

play for nine months every night, as I did as an assistant of the painter Mark

Rothko in London and then on Broadway in Red (for which he won the

Laurence Olivier Award and the Tony Award for Best Actor). The answer is

no ! Because the greatness of the theater is to dig every night and to seek the

perfect harmony as in music, or the decisive moment as in photography. "...

Chopin is an obsession for him: "I was so moved when I discovered the

plaster casting of his hand at the Museum of Romantic Life in Paris! Paris,

a city he loves and where he would like to live: "I spent two months there

with my wife this year," he told us in a charming French and with an accent

he describes as "ridiculous" Apologizing. It is also in France that he

discovered painting: "My parents have a house near Saint-Tropez, where

I still stay regularly. My first emotions, I felt them in a small museum, the

Annonciade, before the drawings of Matisse. He has the gift of capturing a

whole and restoring it with an economy of means, of traits. What elegance ! "...