He has none of the command of a room possessed by those elder acting Eton alumni, Dominic West, and Damien Lewis. Hooper, the director, is a former Oscar winner himself for The King’s Speech. When he was filming 2007’s Savage Grace with Julianne Moore, the first project that drew wide public attention to Redmayne, he was in thrall to the actress’s ability to switch from casual conversation into character at a glance. Instead, he feels his education on the subject began just a few years ago, during his time working on Jupiter Ascending with transgender director Lana Wachowski, who shared with him that Man Into Woman (an edited collection of Elbe’s journal entries) “had been such an integral text for her” as well as other favorites she advised he read. Gosh, it’s delicate. Redmayne is currently rehearsing the role of Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the Harry Potter prequel, next door to the café. “This project had gone in and out and I didn’t even think it would ever get made, if I’m being honest,” he says. “She was the first person I’d met when the film had been green-lit,” he says, “and she was very kind to me, actually. You’re supposed to be at your best when you’re most relaxed, and yet everything about being on set is unrelaxing.”, The high-octane publicity circus for The Theory of Everything didn’t help. “What I suppose I’m trying to do is learn to be an ally to the community because I feel it’s important for cisgender people to be allies.”. Because The Danish Girl was by then waist-deep into development and Redmayne had begun serious self-schooling on trans issues, he spoke with her about it. When he becomes animated on a subject, he is like a puppy finding its first ball of wool, pronounced freckles dancing about his face. He said, ‘Look, I’ve just played a man in his 50s with motor neuron disease. Eddie Redmayne is visibly nervous when we meet on a rainy September morning in a posh conference room on the fourth floor of the Shangri-La hotel in Toronto. Times Syndication Service. I’ll be totally honest about that.”. I was musical, and I was into theater and arts, but I was also into sports, so I had quite a broad spectrum. Redmayne could not be further removed from their social model of blustering, curt certainty. No, no, no, absolutely not.”, In the three years between being cast as Lili Elbe and playing her, Redmayne’s research took him far from the texts Lana Wachowski first recommended. He was schooled first at Eton, Britain’s most prestigious private establishment (his classmates included the heir to the throne, Prince William, and Redmayne’s acting ally Tom Hiddleston), then at Cambridge University. He has always starred in the movies “The Theory of Everything”, “Les Misérables”, “The Danish Girl” and “My Week with Marilyn”. All rights reserved.For reprint rights. By the time of the Academy Awards, he had begun filming another part: playing 20th-century transgender icon Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl. His first research meeting was with the volubly outspoken and powerful British trans activist Paris Lees. We are always questioning, always challenging ourselves, but the idea of aspiring to do that and keeping on doing that is — well, I hope we can all learn from Lili’s leadership and courage.”. I think that’s a really good point. “I’m nervous,” he says. Here are his 10 best quotes from an interview in a new book. And complicated.”. 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As he was wrapping production for the film version of Les Misérables in 2011, director Tom Hooper gave him the script for The Danish Girl. He is categorically one of the good guys. “Someone once told me art is not necessarily about talent and all that, it’s about the aspiration of perfection with the acknowledgement that you’ll never get there,” he says. But he will spend the last months of the year promoting it, becoming a new name dropped into the trans conversation. “What I love about my job is there’s an adrenaline-fueled fear of failure, consistently, and you do fail — and I have failed, lots. They simply want to live their lives peacefully, and it's time to let them do so.". It mirrored his dramatic experiences at Eton. He has tangible bouts of class guilt and works with a charity to enable those less privileged through drama school. I don’t know if I ever think of it like that.” He stumbles to recall whether there were traditional male and female roles prescribed in the house in which he grew up. “God, that’s an interesting question. We had a good chat about everything.”, Redmayne’s next port of call was April Ashley, now 80, a former Vogue model whose career took a tumble when her birth identity was uncovered in a newspaper article in 1961. He wears it with the ‘What, me?’ humility that has marked his publicity folio so far. Edward John David Redmayne was born and raised in London, England, the son of Patricia (Burke) and Richard Charles Tunstall Redmayne, a businessman. “I suppose it depends what you think of as masculine and feminine. “The grand piano didn’t impress me — it was the little details,” Lees explains. Redmayne opened 2015 leaping from the red carpet to his winner’s speech to an after-party in an awards season that gifted him the big four: Best Actor at the Screen Actor’s Guild, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and Academy Awards for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. “Don’t get me wrong. Underneath his glittering career and obliging public disposition is a man of curiosity, intelligence, and sensitivity. That should be celebrated.”, Producer: Craig Shipman. “It really is about friendship. He says he specifically chose the café where we meet because of his sentimental attachment to it, and becomes progressively more enthusiastic as he recalls all the performances he prepped for in the adjoining rehearsal rooms, his voice lifting in register with each memory. J.K.. Rowling said there's been an 'explosion' of young women transitioning and de-transitioning. He began with Jan Morris’s Conundrum before moving on to Kate Bornstein’s pivotal gender theory work. British actor Eddie Redmayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor (for The Theory of Everything (2014)). Instead, it’s the opportunity he has to help educate cisgender (nontrans) people about the realities trans people continue to face —  and he wants to get it right. During an interview with the Daily Mail, Redmayne, who is currently filming his third "Fantastic Beasts" film, said the abuse Rowling has received is "absolutely disgusting. The actor, born and raised in West London’s affluent Chelsea district, played “a lot of girls’ parts” because of his “petite frame” and the fact that “I look just like my mother” during the years he spent at Britain’s most prestigious boys’ boarding school, Eton, where his classmates included heir to the throne Prince William and fellow actor Tom Hiddleston. I’m just trying to keep my head afloat.”. I wonder aloud why that might be. Eddie Redmayne plays Newt Scamander in J.K Rowling "Fantastic Beats" franchise. There's no evidence that's true. “It’s so fucking shocking, people hanging for being gay.”. Anxiety has been a recurrent problem for him at work, something he attributes to never having attended drama school. He was … And also that it needn’t be labeled.”, He was delighted to read of another moment of trans rights gaining traction this year, with the announcement that the prefix Mx. I wanted to know why we aren’t talking more about this,” he says with a warm musicality that contrasts with the sound of cold raindrops drumming against the window. 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