Actors on Actors with Ana de Armas

Variety's Actors on Actors Day 4: Ana de Armas and Eddie talk all about Marilyn and more.

Ana de Armas and Eddie Redmayne for Variety,

photographed by Alexi Lubomirski. (via)

photo by Alexi Lubomirski (via Variety on Twitter)

(via Variety on Twitter)

(via Variety on Twitter)

Ana de Armas and Eddie cover Variety’s Actors On Actors issue. (via)

Photos by Alexi Lubomirski for Variety

Variety Actors on Actors presented by Amazon Studios

You can read the transcript in the

Variety article by Daniel D'Addario:

Ana de Armas and Eddie Redmayne Bond Over Marilyn Monroe’s

Dark Side and Choosing Roles ‘Far Away From What You Look Like’

"I was astounded by your work in Blonde, It felt like you ripped open

your soul for the sake of Marilyn."

"But still terrifying when the person you’re playing is going to watch your work.

There comes a moment when you have to go, “This isn’t a documentary.

I’m getting it wrong. I’m just going to do my best and give my heart to it.”

"The weird thing about our jobs is going from job to job, city to city,

and to these new families that you make. To do our job, you have to

be vulnerable, and you become very close to people very quickly.

There’s such a complexity to that."

“I’m not Method at all. But when I arrived on the set, the director,

Tobias Lindholm, had my wrist locked up...”

"It wasn't a story about a serial killer. It was a story about

a relationship between these two people."

"I have no idea who I am." (public self and private self)

“I always say to young actors who are at drama school or university,

‘Play as far away from what you look like as you can. Because

the second you get into the real industry, you will be playing to type,’”

The quotes and my screenshots are from the video of the conversation. 

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British Vogue 2021 Hollywood Portfolio preview

The magazine's April 2021 issue features 27 Of The World’s Biggest Stars.

Photographs by Greg Williams. Styling by Dena Giannini.

Eddie photographed in the William Kent Room at The Ritz London

by Greg Williams in December, as part of the April 2021 Hollywood

Portfolio story in British Vogue. Grooming: Petra Sellge. 

Post by The Ritz London on Instagram

 

Quotes from magazine's Eddie Redmayne interview:

 

How do you deal with nerves?

“I’ve tried everything: meditation, CBD oil, drinking, but then

I get paranoid that my semi-drunkenness is affecting the work,

and that sends me into even more of a spin.“

What would you be doing if you weren’t an actor?

“Making greetings cards.”

Source: vogue.co.uk preview article

Eddie featured in the new video from British Vogue.

(My screenshots below)

Who is your icon from Hollywood history?  

- Probably James Dean.

What is the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? 

- Worrying means you suffer twice.

Who is your favorite party plus-one? 

- My favorite party plus-one is my wife.

What do you love most about acting? 

- It’s a level playing field because you all depend on each other.

Update: Vogue photo in color from the photographer's Instagram.

The Other Boleyn Girl scene - Mary is invited by the King

Scarlett Johansson (Mary Boleyn), Eddie Redmayne (William Stafford), 

Eric Bana (King Henry Tudor) and Benedict Cumberbatch (William Carey)

in a scene from 'The Other Boleyn Girl' (2008)

In “The Other Boleyn Girl,” Redmayne said he wasn’t a natural fit for the 

“dashing and big and strong” character of William Stafford, the husband 

of Scarlett Johansson‘s Mary Boleyn. (via: The Wrap)

“I don’t know how I got cast, but it was the opportunity to work with Scarlett 

and Natalie [Portman] and Mark [Rylance], so I definitely wasn’t going to say 

no,” he said in a video interview with W magazine. “Everyone was looking 

at me going, ‘Why did they cast him?” I have no idea! I have no idea why 

they cast me, but I’m just going to sit here with my hat on and my big outfit.”

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The Other Boleyn Girl - filmography - pictures, quote, links

The Other Boleyn Girl London's Royal Premiere - Feb. 19, 2008

Falling for his leading Ladies - Scarlett, Michelle and Clémence

Your Cumberbitch - Eddie to Benedict

Oscar winners in Eddie Redmayne's projects

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TBT 2007 - Eddie channels Mary Poppins at the Getty Museum in LA

Let's go back to 2007, when Eddie Redmayne was in LA filming Powder Blue.

Location: Getty Museum - Photos by Darcy Hemley via iloveeddieredmayne

The photo in Eddie Redmayne Web Gallery

Sitting at a Melrose Avenue coffeehouse he told BlackBook about his year:

"The people I'm getting to work with, the projects I'm getting 

to work on. It's just so far from what you ever dare imagine."

BlackBook article: The New Elizabethan: Eddie Redmayne

About his casting as William Stafford in 'The Other Boleyn Girl' Eddie said: 

Stafford "is this dashing aristocratic icon of sexuality. People are already saying, 

'Why did you cast a 12-year-old who looks slightly like a woman?'"

More black haired Eddie in my old posts:

Black haired Eddie - Shanna Fisher shoot - 2007 December 23

Eddie Redmayne as Querty in Powder Blue

Powder Blue in pictures

My favorite scene from Powder Blue

Eddie, dogs and puppies

Eddie for the March 2008 Issue of Interview magazine

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Russian Psychologies Magazine cover and interview

There's an interesting Eddie Redmayne interview in the Russian magazine's 2016 September issue:
Eddie Redmayne: “I’m boring. What’s interesting is what’s around me”
Thanks to Ieva, who translated the long article to English.
You can read the full interview in her new blog here

Виктория Белопольская (Victoria Belopolyskaya) talked to Eddie

in London a few days before his daughter Iris was born in June.

For the cover they used a beautiful photo from 

the 'Hick' Portrait Session at TIFF 2011 (x)

London Magazine used a photo from the same 

shoot for the cover of the 2014 Feb issue

Quote from the interview:

ER: I’ve never been so eager to meet a woman in my life! I’ve already in love with her! You know, I’m afraid of becoming this crazy father who terrorises his daughter with attention; however, all signs are pointing towards that. With her birth, everything, absolutely everything is going to change.

Psychologies: And what is exactly going to change? You’ve already got your life sorted—you’ve got your career. You’ve got an Oscar for ‘The Theory of Everything’, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, theatrical awards: Tony and Olivier. You’ve already got a name. What could she change? She may make your life more beautiful, fuller but changing it?

ER:.. I think she’s going to change me. She’s going to be the centre of it all. I’m going to be responsible for her, at least to a certain moment in her life, as a parent. All of my responsibilities so far have been professional and social in nature, yet this is going to be something imparted by the nature itself. I’ve been longing for that kind of responsibility. And I’m going to be less afraid.

Psychologies: You? Afraid?

ER: Yes, I’m afraid. I’m afraid before the shooting and during it. Trembling. Not a long a time ago I could burst into tears after reading a harsh review. And it had nothing to do with being a perfectionist or worshipping success. But I’m afraid, true. I’m afraid of not performing well enough, of not getting to the point where I can say: yeah, that’s it. In movies, you’ve only got a certain amount of hours to get it right, and you can’t change anything, and that’s what terrifies me the most. It’s probably something to do with the fact that I don’t have professional drama education and natural defence mechanisms that it imparts. I’m an art historian and basically came to the profession straight from amateur theatre.

Excellent interview, make sure you read the rest of it here

On-Set Footage 'My Week with Marilyn' - Living South 2012 Feb. interview quotes

My captures and gifs from the video: On-Set Footage 'My Week with Marilyn'

Filming of the dancing scene with Emma Watson

Is he an awful dancer? Really?

Interview with British star Eddie Redmayne in the run up to the release of My Week with Marilyn

By Anthony Pearce (via) - cover feature in Living South magazine. PDF available here.

Eddie redmayne quotes from the article:
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“I’d be sat there every night and another Knight of the Realm would just wander in,”

“There’s something quintessentially British about it,”

 “I’m not aggressively ambition. The criteria for accepting work is just whether or not it appeals to me. Whatever medium that is. Whether it’s on stage or television or film is of no consequence really.
And I don’t sit there think ‘Oh God, I wish I had that career’. I remember working with Alfred Molina, when we did ‘Red’ and I remember him saying ‘A career is something you look back on, rather than project’. I feel you take it step by step, pace by pace,”

 “With theatre you have to reach the pinnacles of your energies by 7.30 in the evening. The great thing about stage is that if you screw it up one night you can go and sort it out the next. On film you’re working from seven in the morning to 11 at night, and probably six days a week.
You have to hit those emotional moments repetitively while you’re on a scene, and when you go home at night, that’s it done, and you’re never going to have another go at it. So if you haven’t nailed it… then you go and have a sleepless night thinking about how much better you could have done it,”

“Also film takes you to different parts of the world. I was shooting in North Carolina this year and in Hungary, and so it’s much more of a circus like existence. Often all of you are living on location together and there’s a familial quality to it.”

“I’ve lived [in Borough] for about four years. I have various favourite things… The market obviously, all of that Southbank area, right from where the National [Theatre] is, all the way down to Shad Thames. The last ten to 15 years, it has become European in the most wonderfully, uniquely British way. There’s the celebration of the river… and I love the Design Museum in Shad Thames.
I studied my first ever play there. It wasn’t at the Globe Theatre, but it was with the Globe Theatre company. We rehearsed there. That place has always got special value. And you can always nip across the river to St Pauls for evensong. You try and abuse those things, that London has and gives willingly but doesn’t advertise.”

“Do you know a place called El Vergel? It’s a great south American restaurant in Borough that I run straight to when I’m home. I gave away my pub in an interview last time, I think might keep it to myself!”

“[People recognise me] sporadically, more in the States than they do here. But it tends to be more ‘Do I know…?’ rather than ‘You’re the guy from…’ It’s where you’ve sort of battered your way into someone’s subconscious but they think you’re a friend from back at primary school.”

Magazine scans:

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BTS gifset from xoxoeddie

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