The Transformation of Actor Eddie Redmayne

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Today we’re joined by Oscar-winning actor, Eddie Redmayne! We discuss how he embodied serial killer Charles Cullen in The Good Nurse (8:12), playing opposite Jessica Chastain (9:35), and the research that shaped his commanding performance (15:11). Then, to understand his present as a performer, we return to the past: an early theatre production with director Sam Mendes (19:12), his big break starring in Twelfth Night at the Globe (22:59), and learning Shakespeare on the job with actor Mark Rylance (25:26).

On the back-half, we walk through Redmayne’s transition from stage to screen (28:41), a formative memory on set with Scarlett Johansson (31:22), how The Theory of Everything changed his course (33:45), returning to the theatre as the Emcee in Cabaret (41:44), rediscovering a sense of play in a physical theatre class (47:04), and the kind of work he hopes to make in the years to come (49:13).

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0:27.5	wherever you get your podcast. Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm Sam F actor Eddie Redmayne.
1:15.0	Redmayne came to prominence in the early 2010s,
1:18.0	where he starred in a string of films like My Week with Maryland,
1:22.0	Lamez, and the theory of everything, for which he won an Oscar for best actor in a leading role.
1:29.0	In the years since, he found success in the Fantastic Beast franchise, but regardless of size or scope of the project,
1:37.0	his work is defined by transformation, a dogged commitment to shape shifting in which he both physically and mentally
1:45.5	embodies each character. Whether it's Stephen Hawking, civil rights activist
1:50.3	Tom Hayden in the trial of the Chicago 7 or a serial killer Charlie
1:54.8	Colin in his latest film The Good Nurse. For those unfamiliar, Colin received 11
2:01.2	consecutive life sentences in 2006 after pleading guilty to 22 murders in New Jersey and then another seven in Pennsylvania.
2:10.8	He did this by administering lethal doses of medications to patients under his care.
2:17.0	The film, directed by Tobias Linholm, picks up toward the end of Colin's
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