In the midst of filming "Girl from Denmark" Eddie flew to Los Angeles where he unexpectedly received from the hands of cate Blanchett "Oscar" for best male role in the film "the universe Stephen Hawking". Since then, the awards showered upon him in abundance, and there is every reason to believe that the "Girl from Denmark" will finally fix the title of the main star from the galaxy of young British actors and will help to leave far behind Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hiddle groan. "No doubts who to invite to the role of Lily, the Director says, Redmayne is able to change a lot, it is very plastic and can pass through itself and to give out any emotions, I realized this while working with him on Les Miserables.
Shooting is over, and Eddie, taking off the makeup and changing the lady's coat and hat on a black denim jacket and jeans, meets me in the centre of London, in a cafe not far from Shakespeare's globe theatre. Brown hair ruffled as a teenager, his movements jerky, he talks fast, jumping from one thought to another. And despite this direct way, his appearance no one could cheat.
The son of London bankers, he graduated from the prestigious school Eton, where the last five hundred years studying princes, future Ministers and diplomats. No wonder at home he offered to play entirely of aristocrats. "Another one of a kind Boleyn", "the Black death", "the Pillars of the earth", "the Golden age" — films about the middle Ages English for Redman always has the role from the court with a dish of food to the Prince. And he made his debut in 2002 on the stage in Shakespeare's Comedy, played viola in "Twelfth night".
"It was funny: a man plays a woman playing a man," says the actor. Compared with the "Girl from Denmark" the play he calls a simple trick of disguise: "after Reading the book about Lily, I was appalled by his own ignorance. The first ever sex-change operation, and I don't even know!" Ready to shoot, Redmayne studied a lot of documentaries on the fate of Lili Elbe (relocation to Paris, a complete change of personality, operation and death from complications at the age of forty years) and talked a lot with transgender people, to see the world through their eyes.
In these conversations he heard that immediately after the transformation most of the trannies are experiencing a period of hyperfeminine: painted too brightly, too brightly dressed. "This is their first opportunity to fully Express themselves," says Eddie. According to him, the most challenging part of filming was to go to court in the guise of a woman and feel the gazes of the lighting and technicians. "Perhaps women feel that you are appreciated, I was terribly annoyed. I thought about what a transsexual feels, for the first time appearing in public in a new guise".
Ahead long-awaited vacation and then preparing for the role of mage-zoologist in the film adaptation of JK Rowling's "Fantastic beasts and their habitats".
After a second Cup of coffee we're going to walk to his house, where his wife is waiting, but the PR specialist Hannah Baksheev, without which it does not appear on the red carpet. We though in the center of the city, but these streets scared tourists seems to be bypassed. "I've lived here nine years and don't want to leave. And although the area was continuously rebuilt and looks awful sometimes, there's something I like: these streets are not shouting about a flashy facades and signage, you will discover and love them". About the fact that form and content do not always coincide, he now knows better than others.
