English - Actor | January 6, 1982 -
If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
Eddie Redmayne
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It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.
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Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured.
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As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.
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On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.
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When you're doing a film that has so many effects, you do a lot of it on green screen, and you can't see what that world is.
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I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.
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I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.
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I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.
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Filming is about continuing to be alert and to think, and I find it quite exhausting.
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I've played women since I was a kid and I've always enjoyed it.
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If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
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