Eddie Redmayne

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🗓️ 23 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Eddie Redmayne always knew he wanted a life on stage so he began acting lessons at age 10. By his early 20s, London theater had recognized him as an Outstanding Newcomer to the West End. Soon he made his way to Broadway and Hollywood. Now, the 40-year-old Redmayne is starring in the chilling Netflix crime drama "The Good Nurse " with Jessica Chastain, based on a little known, horrific, true story. In this week's "Sunday Sitdown," Willie Geist got together with the actor in New York.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.2	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:09.2	Very excited to bring you my conversation this week with Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne.
0:14.8	He won that Oscar for his performance as Stephen Hawking in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything.
0:21.8	He was nominated the very next year, by the way, for the same Best Actor Award for his
0:25.8	performance in the Danish Girl.
0:28.2	Highly acclaimed actor got his start as a boy in London, comes from a family with no experience
0:33.0	on stage or screen, nothing in entertainment, but he just caught the bug as a kid went
0:38.0	on from there.
0:39.0	Blading Shakespeare when he was in college was noticed by a talent agent and pulled on
0:43.6	to West End stages where he won awards, he won a Tony Award in New York City as well, performing
0:49.4	on Broadway.
0:50.7	His first major film role, House This For A Start, directed by Robert De Niro, starring
0:56.0	alongside Angelina Jolie and Matt Damon in the 2006 movie The Good Shepherd went on
1:02.2	to do The Theory of Everything, Les Misarab, the fantastic Beast movie The List Is Long.
1:08.1	His latest is called The Good Nurse.
1:10.6	It's a Netflix film that is the true story of a nurse turned serial killer named Charles
1:16.1	Cullen.
1:17.1	In case you don't know or remember the story Cullen over the course of 16 years killed at
1:23.9	least 40 people, investigators say that number could be up into the hundreds while working
1:28.5	at nine different hospitals.
1:30.1	He kind of got shipped from hospital to hospital in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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