Early Man workshop exploration - Blu-ray & DVD special features

On the Digital release, DVD and Blu-ray you find bonus clip about Eddie's 

Aardman visit with Maisie. Here are a few screenshots and gifs from the videos.

Eddie was amazed by the sets and the amount of work required for the movie.

"...the script was endlessly being fanoodled- I think I just invented a word. As you say, 

that world of animation- we would record once every two months and record for a day 

and then two months later you come back and they would have animated some of the stuff 

you recorded last time. You would go and re-record other bits where they’ve refined 

the script. It was a massively organic process. What was weird was that you never read 

the script from start to finish. So it was really, more than any film I’ve ever done, when 

you saw it, the final cut of it, it was super surprising. It was wonderful to watch because 

you didn’t really know what you were making as you went along." - (source: collider)

Maisie and Eddie dressing up as cavemen

In the exclusive clip posted by FANDOM, watch as Eddie Redmayne, Nick 

Park (of Wallace & Gromit fame) and Maisie Williams (from Game of Thrones)
visit the set. Eddie was literally flabbergasted by the scale intricacy of the work.
“That insane,” he said when shown the Bronze City. The set — one of many for
Early Man — represented a years-worth of labor. - video here (Lawrence Yee)

"I just love the heart of these films. They have such a joy, and warmth, and humor 

to them that, yeah, I felt like it would be a lovely thing to get to swim in...

You sort of pursue the joke relentlessly and it’s quite brilliant." (source collider) 

BLU-RAY/DVD SPECIAL FEATURES 

 “Before the Beginning of Time: Creating Early Man” Featurette 

“Nick Park: Massaging the Funny” Featurette 

“The Valley Meets the Bronze” Featurette 

“Hanging at Aardman Studios: A Workshop Exploration” Featurette

Get prehistoric this weekend & enter to win a family ticket to an #EarlyMan screening at Stonehenge Visitor Centre on 26 May by @EH_Stonehenge. To enter, comment below and tell us which ‘Age’ Early Man is set in. We’ll give you a clue: ____henge. pic.twitter.com/ypelXoyQOq

— Early Man (@earlymanmovie) May 22, 2018

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Maisie Williams Heart Rate Monitor feat Dr. Eddie - BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show

As a guest on the show, Maisie had participated in the Heart Rate Monitor Challenge. Host Nick 

Grimshaw got to interviewed her while she sat in a hospital bed, attached to a heart rate monitor.

Maisie Williams in the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show chats with Nick Grimshaw
Eddie in the video from 6:17

Grimshaw brought in Redmayne and asked the actor if he knew any "horrible
stories" that would sent Williams's pulse racing. Redmayne immediately
declined to take that track and took a much better one.
 "I don't know about the horrible stories, because I thought, well, basically, it's just
about 'Game of Thrones' spoilers," he said, making the day of all "Game of Thrones"
fans listening. Redmayne then jumped right into it, hypothesizing that Williams's
character, Arya Stark, will end up leading the Seven Kingdoms. He and Grimshaw
did their best to analyze the actress's response, but to be honest, they weren't able
to glean much from her changing heart rate. We did like Redmayne's creativity,
though -- particularly when he suggested that Arya and Hot Pie (Ben Hawkey)
will "get it on, become a thing, have kids, the full works." (moviefone)

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Early Man promo video playlist

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

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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

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