- Quora.
- [Man] Do you know what Quora is?
- No. [laughs]
- [Man] It's a question website.
- It's a question website, Quora.
It's a question website.
I'm Eddie Redmayne,
and I'm going undercover on the internet,
which I actually feel
like no one should do.
But we're gonna do.
It's actually me.
[light music]
Yeah, no, seriously, it is actually me.
First up, Twitter.
Dilara elbir says, "Do you
know what's missing in Cats?
"Eddie Redmayne."
I feel that I don't have a
good enough figure for Cats.
And I watched for the new
Cats trailer the other day,
and Idris Elba just
looks so ripped as a cat.
And I feel like that was probably why
I didn't get the call from Tom Hooper,
but I'm not taking it personally at all.
[Twitter whistles]
Posted.
What is your favorite swear word?
Um [word bleeped].
I love a [word bleeped].
And it's good onomatopoeic, satisfying.
This is horrendous.
I'm going to be truth.
I love the word [word bleeped].
Next.
[Twitter whistles]
MTV News says should Felicity
Jones and Eddie Redmayne
do all their films together?
I think, I would say yes.
I would love to work with Felicity Jones.
In this film, literally, we were confined
to a basket about the size of this table
for about three months,
and we loved each other
at the end anyway.
[Twitter whistles]
So I think that's a testament
to extreme work conditions
and true friendship.
But also what happened with this film is
we got to the end of
filming, and we were sitting
in the basket covered in
rain and frostbite and snow.
And I said to Felicity, "Hasn't this been
"such a wonderful experience?"
'Cause my character
basically gets to pass out
for a lot of it and just be quite relaxed.
And she said, "No, it's
been absolute hell."
[laughs] I take because she basically
had to do a load of stunt, brutal,
painful work the whole
way through the film.
I'm trying to take that
not as a personal slight.
But I would love to do all
my films with Felicity Jones.
[Twitter whistles]
Moving on.
David Low, ydavey, @ydavey says,
"Does anyone know why
Eddie Redmayne hasn't
"done another musical?
"He sang so well in the
film Les Miserables."
David, I love you.
Thank you for being generous.
Not sure everyone agreed with you.
There have been reference to me sounding
like Kermit the Frog.
I kind of enjoyed singing until I saw
myself in Les Miserables.
A lot of the character in Les Miserables
sings really high.
[Twitter whistles]
It's kind of too high for my voice,
so I spent most of the
film kind of doing that,
which doesn't look particularly appealing
when you're watching a film.
And when we came to
sing live at the Oscars,
I asked the composer
if there was any chance
we could sing it down a tone or two,
and he was like yeah, totally.
I thought why didn't I ask him that
while we were making the movie?
That movie would've been
so much less painful
for me and for audience
members listening to me.
Anyway, I would love to do
another musical one day.
Thanks, David.
[Twitter whistles]
Next.
B-E-L @filmeraki replying to @westhingy.
I love these [word bleeped] names.
They're brilliant.
I need a movie where the
big three British in it.
Benedict Cumupalus, [laughs] Curcumaplus,
Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston.
A war movie'd be cool or a classical movie
like Three Musketeers.
Or maybe a new James Bond movie.
Tom as Bond, Eddie as the villain,
Ben as MI6 new boss.
That's quite a pitch.
I like the idea of Benedict Curcumaplus.
Why does Ben get a cool surname
and Tom and I don't?
I also quite like the idea
of the Three Musketeers.
If that happens, do you think @filmeraki
gets a commission?
Let's put that out into the ether.
Three Musketeers, that's good.
Except I can't grow facial hair.
Submit.
[Twitter whistles]
Sarah Gailey, who has a tick,
which means she's dead important.
Questions I have are so far
while watching Jupiter Ascending.
Is it scientology?
Not as far as I was aware.
I saw it as a big opera based on the idea
of turning all human
beings into face cream.
[Twitter whistles]
Is it fan fiction?
No.
Is it based on a comic book?
No.
Channum Taters ice
skating or rollerblading?
The answer is he was rollerblading,
and he became a fiendish
rollerblader for it.
What is Eddie Redmayne's accent?
There was a little minor
footnote in the script
which talked about how my character
Balem Abrasax had had
his throat ripped out.
Now, it wasn't really mentioned much
in the actual film, and
so I talked like that
for the entire movie.
It was a bold character choice
that didn't work very well.
What kind of lizard is that man?
That man is a big dragon figure
that was actually an actor on stilts
with lots of bubbles on this head.
[Twitter whistles]
Eddie Redmayne saying
where will I go, what
shall I do always gets me.
Like come here, let me love you.
Crying emoji.
Where will I go?
What shall I do?
Did I actually say that
in a movie? [laughs]
You're very welcome to come here.
Love me.
That's lovely, thank you.
Replied.
[Twitter whistles]
Wikipedia.
[gentle music]
Wikipedia says from the age of 10,
Redmaye attended the
Jackie Palmer Stage School,
where he found his love for acting
and singing alongside
fellow star James Corden.
This is true.
The Jackie Palmer Stage School is a place
in High Wycombe outside of London,
and I would go there at weekends
and do acting and singing.
And James was there.
He was a couple of years older than me.
My memory of it is he was
a brilliant street dancer.
And we became pals then.
It's weird enough as an actor to get to
work in this world and
to have fun doing it,
have these extraordinary experiences,
but when you get to see a pal doing it
at the same time, and you get to reminisce
and share the absurdity of it all,
it's a great bonus.
I think he's genius, James.
All right, next.
IMDb.
[gentle music]
He was asked to audition
for the role of Kylo Ren
in Star Wars: Episode
VII The Force Awakens.
He revealed that the
audition was horrible.
The role eventually went to Adam Driver.
I think it was Kylo Ren
I was auditioning for.
The reason the audition was horrible
was 'cause I was doing my
Jupiter Ascending voice
'cause I've only got one
sci-fi villain in me,
and that one wasn't very successful.
Adam Driver got the part,
which was great for not only the Star Wars
universe but the universe generally.
Submit.
While he was at Eton College,
he auditioned for the
role of Tom Marvolo Riddle
in Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets 2002.
However, he did not get the call back
from the casting director.
That is totally true.
In fact, I think they stopped the audition
before I'd even finished saying the lines.
That was a scarring moment,
but thanks for bringing it up.
Eddie Redmayne is color blind.
This is very true.
Yeah, not much to say to that.
All right, next.
Eddie Redmayne used to be flatmates
with fellow actors Jamie
Dornan and Andrew Garfield.
This is true.
We used to go to LA in January
to get out of London to try and get work
in pilot season, and the actual reality
is it was just pouring
with rain in London.
And so we would tell all
our family and friends
that we had to go look
for work in Los Angeles.
Submit.
On a plane recently, I fell asleep,
and when I woke up, the man next to me
asked, "Excuse me, are
you somebody important?"
I must've looked confused,
'cause he explained,
"I'm asking because the
stewardesses came over
"and were watching you sleep."
This is true.
This happened a while back,
and I didn't really know how to respond
to the entire situation, so
I do what I generally do,
which is bodily functions take over,
and I just went beet red.
Reddit.
[gentle music]
Does Eddie Redmayne sing Empty Chairs
and Empty Tables in chest
voice or does he use
falsetto on the high notes?
Are the high notes in Empty
Chairs and Empty Tables
meant to be sung in
falsetto or chest voice?
That's a very intricate detail question.
The answer is they're meant
to be sung in chest voice,
but I can't sing them
unless I'm singing it
really loudly, I couldn't reach
those notes in chest voice.
So I made a character choice that came out
through circumstances because he was being
so internal, he would sing those early
ones in falsetto.
So yeah, they probably should
be sung in chest voice,
but I sang them in falsetto.
Falsetto, chest voice, falsetto.
Posted.
YouTube.
[gentle music]
- People just forget how hard
your jobs are, don't they?
- I know it looks so easy.
- [Interviewer] It looks
so easy, but it's not.
- Look what we go through.
- It was quite easy for me.
I just passed out for
quite a long. [laughs]
This is from Crest Taim.
Eddie R, how do you prep for the intense,
emotionally demanding scenes that you're
known for nailing so well?
It totally depends on the
film and the circumstance
and the character.
In Theory of Everything,
it was easy in the scenes
to play the emotion because you'd spent
months meeting people
living with a very brutal
disease and meet the Hawking family
who were just so lovely.
And the reality of the
tragedy was pretty close.
Posted.
[light music]
With all the traveling
and different accents
and characters you get into,
I wonder what is the most British thing
that's synonymous with being
back home for you, Eddie?
A love of Marmite, salt
and vinegar squares
and Discos, two snacks
that are quite English,
and the packaging hasn't
really changed since the 80s.
When I get back to Heathrow, I'll always
go straight to W.H. Smith,
which is a kind of newspaper
store and get a packet of
salt and vinegar Discos
and salt and vinegar Squares,
and then I feel like I'm at home.
Quora.
[gentle music]
How did Eddie Redmayne do the coloring
book magic trick?
When I was young, I had a brother who
was six years younger than me,
and when I was about nine or 10,
I was really into magic.
There was this great magic shop in London
called Davenports, which I used to go to,
and I was obsessed with it.
And so when I was doing
the Graham Norton Show,
they wanted me to do some magic
'cause they knew I was interested in it.
And they said could you find anything?
And the easiest magic trick in the world
that you just have to buy,
uh, I've just been thrown
out of The Magic Circle,
is this one called the
magic coloring book.
And it was really good,
but I couldn't possibly
tell you how to do it,
'cause then I would be hurting
the careers of magicians.
Submit.
What do you think is Eddie
Redmayne's best film performance?
I know for a fact that the internet
is divided on this.
It's either Theory of Everything
or Jupiter Ascending,
depending on who you are.
Posted.
Why are British gentlemen so charming?
Like Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston,
David Beckham, Benedict
Cumberbatch, E-T-C.
I know why Tom Hiddleston's so charming,
'cause he has a delicious voice that you
want to swim in.
David Beckham's so charming because he has
extraordinary dress sense, incredibly
delicate with his feet.
I know why Benedict is so charming,
because he's a phenomenal
actor and a kind human being.
I'm charming by association.
What is Eddie Redmayne's method of acting?
Honestly, I know I went to drama school,
so you always feel like you're frauding
your way through acting life from what I
started to work with
really brilliant actors.
So you just try and watch how they work
and glean things, but I've got say,
I'm making this film at the moment called
The Trial of the Chicago
Seven with a group
of staggering actors.
Mark Rylance, Sasha Baron
Cohen, Jeremy Strong,
Alex Sharp, Michael
Keaton, Frank Langella,
and what's been most riveting of all
in the process is they all have completely
different processes.
So when you put all of these actors
into one mish-mash, brilliant,
such fun to watch.
On a scale of one to 10, how posh would
you rate Eddie Redmayne's accent?
The weird things about accents is
if you have one, you can't hear it,
but I've had the most
posh education imaginable,
so I imagine it's probably
up there in the 10s.
Did Eddie Redmayne use a body double
for the nude scene in The Danish Girl?
No, Eddie Redmayne did
not use a body double
for the nude scene in The Danish Girl.
Eddie Redmayne used his own body.
Basically, getting naked
in front of lots of people
is just really not that much
fun, I realized. [laughs]
And that day was
particularly excruciating.
So that was full Redmayne.
How are British actors
different from American actors?
I actually don't know the answer to that.
We're all so different.
There's alchemy in that.
There's something that's unspecific.
Generally, British
actors, myself included,
you have a massive learning curve
when you start working on screen,
because you're just
learning from your mistakes.
Whereas I feel American actors are
brought up in that tradition
so much quicker to find that.
Okay, that's it.
I'm signing off the internet.
I kinda love you, I kinda hate you.
Bye. [laughs]
