Sunday, July 19, 2015

Hopeful girls at the audition - Set building at Leavesden - FB filming starts soon

Thousands of young girls flocked to London hoping to star in a Harry Potter spin-off film.
JK Rowling tweeted her excitement as the open auditions for Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them kicked off
at the ExCel centre in London yesterday. (x)



- We made it to #londonexcel for the #warnerbrothers open audition! Hope is going up for the part of Modesty in#fantasticbeastsandwheretofindthem. Now just a matter of queuing for hours and we've started on the packed lunch already! (x)
- The queue behind us.(photo above)
- Five hours of queuing later and the audition is done, with a certificate to take home. Thank you @wbpictures@heydayfilms and @jk_rowling for giving@missswampy a chance and an experience she will never forget. (photo to the left)

hanxahjudd posted yesterday (she auditioned for the part of Modesty): The crowds were INSANE 
at the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie auditions today :') (x) (x)

helendouglasbooks: Fun times today at the#fantasticbeasts casting call. In front of us, 
someone from Dubai; behind, someone from Texas! (x) - (x)

more (x)-(x)

hazelwoods06 (x):Front of the queue after 9hrs of waiting, time to audition!

bettimoretti123 (x)(x)(x) did her thing too - A brilliant & exhausting 17 hour day with Coco in London today 
auditioning for J K Rowling's Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (along with 24,999 or so others)...
we may not make the studio tomorrow though as I'm not sure my body will forgive me for some time! (x)

Kaitlyn of Manchester seeking the chance to become the next Emma Watson, who starred as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series said: "We got our picture taken ... got into a circle and we jumped in the middle doing an action and a sound." (x)
An interview with Chloe Hackett, a young actress who attending the casting call yesterday.



 This post is about Eddie's project so we need pics about him as well.
Here are the most recent fanpics with him.
 Eddie with a fan posted on Tuesday (x)
Shopping on Saturday in the The Silver Pear shop in Ludlow (x) (x)
Update 27 July: Related article here

The preparations for the filming continue
Filming is expected to start late this summer, in Leavesden once again, where the original films were shot and the studio tour still runs today.(x)
Mark Wilson, who describes himself as an amateur photographer, posted this set of images from Hertfordshire, England, near Leavesden Studios of Warner Bros...


The confirmation about the photos came from Kitty Thornton, who is a fan of the franchise, in this tweet.
Thornton said she was at the location and that an employee of the studio also confirmed that J.K. Rowling inspected the set recently...The set that she is said to have inspected includes a large gateway in one picture and a green screen in another... (x)
One more tweet here
danfogler (x): #fantasticBeasts stole my Beard!!!
J.K. Rowling: I'm so excited he's going to be be Jacob.(one more)

Should be clarified that when Dan Fogler answered it will take place both in NYC & London, 
he was asked about the filming of 'Fantastic Beasts', not the story.
(published on 10 June 2015 by Emma Daly)
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Friday, July 17, 2015

Film4′s 2015 clapperboard montage

Eddie Redmayne is part of a who’s who of movies in Film 4′s Clapperboard Project promo.
Eddie in the video at 0:19


gifs source: darling-eddie-redmayne

Film4 and Film4 Productions interviewed each of these stars for their own individual projects and at the end of each interview asked them to clap for the camera. After the company acquired a certain amount they put them all together for one fun montage. This is such a fun and interesting idea! (x) Eddie Redmayne Film4 interview video



 my screencaps
Thanks to bespokeredmayne for finding it.

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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Who helped portraying Hawking's disease? - Mr. Phillips's story - Katie Sidle interview


.Eddie Redmayne visited the MND patients who worked with him at a London clinic 
to portray Stephen Hawking authentically – and brought his Oscar. (x) via

Here is the story of how Mr. Phillips was one of those who allowed Eddie to study the effects of MND.
Reported by Katrina Turrill, published in Watford Observer on 9 Feb. 2015: 
BAFTA-winning Eddie Redmayne visited Bushey man Glenn Phillips to research his role for The Theory of Everything
A man from Bushey who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2011 said actor Eddie Redmayne was "personable" and "sincere" after the star met with him to research his role for The Theory of Everything.
Just as unpredictable as the disease which affects neurones in the brain and spinal cord, causing loss of mobility, speech difficulty, swallowing and breathing, Glenn Phillips' meeting with award-winning Eddie in August 2013 
was unexpected.
Mr Phillips said: "I was at an appointment at the hospital (National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen Square, London) and he was there with his choreographer seeing what people with the disease were like, first hand. 
I didn't know he was going to be there.
"He spent about an hour and a half there, and he talked to specialists too about the disease, to hear the more technical sides. He spoke to me and asked me when I first got the disease and what my first symptoms were. I showed him my hands, because that is how it first started for me - he was very keen on how my hands worked."

Less than two weeks later, Mr Phillips received a call from Eddie saying he would like to come and visit him at his Bushey home.
"He came up with the choreographer and stayed about three hours. He was really doing his research - he was seeing as many people as he could - and he was particularly interested in the early stages of the disease which I had at the time," said Mr Phillips.
"The film takes you from when Hawkings is first diagnosed, right through to the later stages of the disease, which is why it was important to research the early stages."
According to Mr Phillips, Eddie was most interested in how he walked, how he used his hands and how he wrote, watching him in "really close detail".
He said: "Eddie was very personable, very respectful, very thoughtful and sincere. That became more apparent in the future months, because he kept in touch."
Mr Phillips was invited by the actor to join him at the UK premiere of the film in London, which was held on December 9.
However the specialised taxi which had been ordered to take him to the premiere failed to turn up.
"So I couldn't go," said Mr Phillips. "But he was very kind and thoughtful after that. He organised a private screening for me and my family and friends - between him and Universal - in London."
Mr Phillips' private screening was on January 12, but unfortunately Eddie was unable to attend because he was in LA at the time. He said: "I was really looking forward to meeting him again, so that was really sad, but I think that was the day he received his Oscar nomination."
Just last night, on Sunday, February 8, Eddie scooped the Best Actor prize at the BAFTAs, and a few weeks earlier won a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Mr Phillips described The Theory of Everything as a film very different to anything he had seen before.
"I was riveted by his performance, it was quite extraordinary the way he contorted his body. It was authentic, it was quite amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed the film, but it was also difficult to watch, particularly when Hawking was diagnosed - that brought back a lot of painful memories."
Mr Phillips has not heard from Eddie since the screening.
"He's been rather busy during awards season," he said.
"But what impressed me the most about Eddie was he was very affected by the condition, and I could see it was a genuine concern of his. He was very good to understand the disease, not just for his role, and that is something very genuine about him."

abbyphillips-photography: Again an images taken on my broken phone camera. A signed Eddie Redmayne 
album as a thank you gift to my uncle for allowing him to shade his life to understand the struggles of MNDA 

...To prepare for the role, Redmayne had four-hour coaching sessions with Alexandra Reynolds, a Hollywood choreographer who also helped come up with the movements of the zombies in World War Z.
He also worked with Katie Sidle, a consultant neurologist at the Queen Square Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases in London. Sidle recently spoke to BMJ about what it was like helping Redmayne prepare for his role. You can listen to the recording below.
Redmayne and Sidle studied photographs of Hawking in various stages of his life to track the progression of his illness. Based on their findings, Redmayne created a chart intricately tracking the progression of Hawking's illness, which allowed Redmayne to know precisely what Hawking's physicality was at each particular moment of filming. The chart tracked the physicist's progression from one cane to two canes, to a wheelchair. It also tracked the dystrophy of his musculature, and his transition to an electronically provided voice. - full article here
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