Addicted to Eddie

Thursday, June 14, 2018

TBT - High Tide Festival play reading - Another Event from 2007

Eddie Redmayne with Mary Nighy at the High Tide play reading

on January 26, 2007 (x). Mary is an English actress and filmmaker.

(photos source: chrissallans and lrieguhst on tumblr)

"Actor Bill Nighy (who played the father of Eddie's character in Glorious 39)

stepped in to help raise funds for the festival by auctioning a script from

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. He's a patron of the festival but

will not be performing on stage - as HighTide is aimed at highlighting the

talent of writers and actors under 30. In a search to find the country's most

promising talent, HighTide's organisers approached theatre groups throughout

the UK. They were amazed by the number of people who replied with an

application to take part in the festival." (source: bbc.co.uk/suffolk)

HighTide was formed in 2007 as a one-off festival at The Cut arts centre,

Halesworth, Suffolk to profile new work by up and coming playwrights

in a creative and nurturing environment.

HighTide started life as a three-day festival, opening on 6 March 2007.

It premiered short plays by Tom Basden, Steven Bloomer, Sarah Cuddon,

Sam Holcroft, Matthew Morrison, Pericles Snowdon, Megan Walsh and

Iain Weatherby. Tom Basden's Assembly then transferred to Hay-on-Wye

Festival 2008. It was expanded into a full length play retitled Party, which

premiered at Edinburgh Festival 2009 where it won a Fringe First,

transferred to the Arts Theatre, London, and was adapted for Radio 4. (x)

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Zürich Film Festival 2007 - Savage Grace (opening film not in competition)

(x)
Eddie Redmayne attended the red carpet pemiere of Savage Grace screened
as the opening film on 27th September at the 3. Zürich Film Festival.
He was filming Powder Blue back then (from Aug. 2007) this explains the hair.

Eddie with Savage Grace director Tom Kalin and gf Tara Hacking on the red carpet
source: eddie-redmayne-italian-blog

When I searched for some background information about the
event, I found something, that you probably haven't seen yet.
It's not much, only a few second in the video here.

my gif from the video

my screenshots

Savage Grace was the opening film at the 3. ZFF

(27. SEPTEMBER - 7. OKTOBER 2007)

It was also screened on 1st October 2007 at 18:00 (Arthouse Alba)

https://zff.com/en/archive/2918/ - https://zff.com/de/archiv/2918/

http://www.movies.ch/de/film/zurichfilmfestival2007/
This premiere is missing from the movie's related IMDB page

source: eddie-redmayne-italian-blog

source: aworldofbliss

my-eddie-redmayne-scrapbook

“Intense, one way to say it,” Eddie described the 2007 film from Tom Kalin.

“It did involve a bit of incest. A little murder.” The film told the story of heiress

and socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland (Moore) and her allegedly incestuous

relationship with her gay son (Redmayne), who eventually murdered his mother.

Despite the heavy material, Redmayne distinctively recalls how his fellow 2015

Oscar winner would keep the mood light while filming. “What’s amazing about

Julianne is she is so funny and so she’s not one of those actors that like takes

themselves into a room and gets into a zone,” he explained. “She’s talking to you…

I remember a talk show host in the U.K. called Jonathan Ross and we were

about to do like the most intense sort of hardcore murder scene and she was talking about Jonathan Ross. You could see Tom, the director, sort of over there going, ‘When do I call action?’ He would call action and she would just go straight into the scene and I would be going… still sort of talking about Jonathan Ross. I’d be like, ‘Oh, no, no, no, no.’ So she made it very easy, actually.”

(People interview via EW)

Monday, June 11, 2018

Congrats to Eddie's friend Andrew Garfield on his Tony Award

"We all belong, so let’s just bake a cake for everyone who wants a cake to be baked!”

(x) - (x)

Andrew Garfield, one of Eddie's best friends Won the Best Actor for his performance
in 'Angels in America' at the Tony Awards yesterday. Now they're both Tony winners.
Eddie won for 'Red' in 2010

Red Carpet: Carey Mulligan & Andrew Garfield (2018) interview
Andrew Garfield Sings His Favorite 'Hamilton' Song & Talks His Love for Broadway

Andrew Garfield - Tony Awards 2018

Andrew Garfield - Tony's 2018 - Full Backstage Q&A

AG: There’s a way to create community in theater that you can’t so much in film because, maybe, there’s just too much money involved.

ER: One of the great New York experiences is where you have a dress rehearsal before your first preview. It’s in the middle of the day so all the other actors and people from other shows can come. I remember Alfred Molina saying, “Ed, don’t expect this audience to be like any other. They will be the most generous audience you’ve ever heard.” .We’re so lucky to have the experience of performing on Broadway, or the experience of living in LA. When we started, I would turn up in my really shoddy rental car and park it as far from Paramount as possible, and walk in and pretend as if I knew what I was talking about—you pretend to be living one life when you actually can’t afford to pay your rent. It’s something that has really made our group of friends; it’s so amazing to be able to share that with people.

AG: It’s unlike anything we were raised in, right?

ER: It’s also beyond anything we could have dreamed.

(Gotham Magazine)