Did Cabaret rekindle Eddie Redmayne's wish to be on stage? 💬 “It was one of, if not the, greatest experience of my career artistically... but the physical toll that it takes is overwhelming. And so, on the one hand, I couldn’t keep doing it”
, immortalising his Olivier-winning performance as the shape-shifting Emcee at the West End’s Playhouse Theatre, and Redmayne, nursing a hot drink and looking understatedly stylish in a grey cashmere jumper, is thrilled.marked the actor’s first stage performance since Shakespeare’s Richard II, 11 years earlier.
“Doing theatre when you have young children is really complex,” he says. There is the need to be at the theatre early to warm up, then the late nights working. “Unless you get up in the mornings to take your kids to school, you’re not seeing your children, and then you’re working weekends…” he says in one exasperated flow. He slows down to add, lest he sound ungrateful, “and that is just our actor’s life, if we’re lucky enough to be working.
He is helping his daughter to learn, and identifies well with her frustrations. Has he ever written his own music? “Yeah, I have,” he chuckles with embarrassment. “It’s not very good, though.” He remembers composing, for GCSE music, “some very over-the-top, romantic piano piece that was slightly ridiculous”.
There is something incongruous about an Oscar winner – he won Best Actor in 2015 for playing Stephen Hawking in– being asked to submit his CV for drama school, but Redmayne was happy to take it back to the beginning. He finds any of the research that comes with that intriguing. “The thing about our job is that you don’t really get to choose what that’s going to be – whether it’s learning about astrophysics to play Stephen Hawking, or the Chicago riots forThe Good Nurse
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