Eddie Redmayne attended the Variety Studio presented by Moroccanoil at Holt Renfrew
during the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2014 in Toronto
Eddie with Hannah and Brit Marling
Matthew Goode, Benedict Cumberbatch, Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne at the Vatiety Studio
There were plenty of famous faces at the Variety at Holt Renfrew photo studio today, but Benedict Cumberbatch and Eddie Redmayne had eyes only for each other!
In one of the sweetest moments of the morning, the two greeted each other with big (very manly, we assure you) hugs, Redmayne actually bounding across the room when he saw his fellow Brit was in the house. While Benedict sipped on a Fiji water, the two then proceeded to have a proper chinwag, joined by Redmayne’s fiance.
The two are both serious Oscar contenders in 2015 (Cumberbatch for his film at TIFF, The Imitation Game, and Redmayne for The Theory of Everything, also at the fest) but somehow we don’t think they’re letting the competition get in the middle of this bromance. (
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“I turn my back for five minutes and there’s somebody playing something I’ve already played before. You can’t be possessive about people you play. I had an extraordinary experience which gave me a relationship with Stephen when I was 26, 25. It was an amazing moment for me, a really defining moment for me. Nothing can take that away from me.
“And nothing can alter the fact that what Eddie’s done in (The Theory of Everything) film is different. And I can sit as an audience member and cheer and be happy about it. For two reasons: It takes Stephen’s story to an even broader audience, and it’s going to celebrate a talented one of my friends who’s one of our best actors. It’s a win-win.”
Photo: Brilliant Brits at TIFF 2014 Vanity Fair Studio today - Matthew Goode, Benedict Cumberbatch, Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne
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to gain an understanding of the environment and conditions faced by tunnellers working beneath the Picardy battlefields. 
...Birdsong is that rare thing: a screen adaptation of a book that is not a pale approximation. Redmayne is chilling in the lead role, while Morgan ingeniously weaves between the two main settings of the novel: genteel France in 1910 and the country, ravaged by war, in 1916...."It was very odd on set, like two different films," says Redmayne. "We shot the war stuff first on this huge field outside Budapest with the most astounding rabbit-warren trenches, and it was incredibly hot and intense. But it was in Budapest and you had all the boys, this amazing collection of British actors like Matthew Goode and Thomas Turgoose, and – of course, they had days on and days off – so they were out on the lash in Budapest. I felt like the depressingly boring dad, living last night's action vicariously through them. "Then they all left after this hardcore six weeks, and these beautiful French actors arrived," he continues. "It became this European period drama, so make-up off, mud off and suddenly into these starched ties. Philip [Martin] and I were like, 'What's happening here?'" 
