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Take a wild ride behind the scenes of ‘The Aeronauts’ to discover how

director Tom Harper brought this high-flying world to life.

Eddie Redmayne prepares for the filming of a scene.
(Probably the ending scene of the movie)

There's a BTS footage in the video about the filming of the storm scene.

In the interview for SLANT Magazine Eddie said: "We were lucky that the first thing we

shot was the real stuff. We went up in the real balloon—we had this accident, it was really

terrifying—and the notion of the stakes were weirdly embedded with us from day one.

Ultimately, it always feels horrendously fake when you’re in a giant basket surrounded by

blue screens, but they did things like [freezing] the studio for our breath. We were shooting

in the summer in the U.K., and then you had cast and crew in jackets because we were in

a giant refrigerator. They also gave us freezing buckets with ice to plunge our hands into

beforehand. The director really gave us everything he could to make it feel [right]..."

The full SLANT Magazine interview is here.

"I love that, on the one hand, it looks like a very stiff period drama, certainly

with one character who is incredibly stiff," Redmayne told VICE. "By the end,

almost all the period trappings are gone and it's just two people in a basket

hurtling towards the earth in a survival movie."

If you've ever felt so much as a passing appreciation of taxidermied owls

and giant hot air balloons, The Aeronauts is for you. (source vice.com)

Eddie Redmayne took a day off from filming Aaron Sorkin drama The Trial

of the Chicago 7 (expected to premiere Sept. 2020) to do what he called

"gentle work" and talk about The Aeronauts (out Dec. 6)—a whimsical,

spectacle-rich, a semi-biographical adventure that pulls from Richard

Holmes' Falling Upward, a book detailing the early history of ballooning.

(Cr. VICE - Alex Zaragoza)

This year's conference call for fan bloggers was on 20th November.

You can read the full interview here

Eddie answered a lot of interesting questions.