![]() ![]() If he wanted to do 20 takes of a song, he needed to know that we could do that. Redmayne: He had to check that we could deliver. THR: Did Hooper’s idea to film you singing live take the pressure off a little bit – as in, you were expected to be perfect every time? You didn’t always have to hit those high notes? Redmayne: I sang “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables,” and Claude-Michel sort of jumped up and said, “I need to hear you sing this other note in ‘One Day More.’ … I want to check that you can sing this, I want to see that you can sing this – can you sing this?!” And I was like, I don’t know whether I can sing this … come on Eddie, this is your moment to see whether you’ve got it or not. STORY: Eddie Redmayne in Talks to Join ‘Jupiter Ascending’ And behind a panel were the Working Title producers, Cameron Mackintosh, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Alain Boublil, Tom Hooper and Nina Gold, the music director. ![]() The last audition was X Factor style, in a room above the Queen’s Theatre in the West End, where Les Mis is playing. At the time, Les Mis was being played, and they said, “You should audition for that.” Two nights later, I was in the middle of a field in North Carolina in my trailer and thought, “Why not give it a shot?” I sent it to my agent, Josh Lieberman, who sent it to Eric Fellner. One night, we went over to Blake’s and they turned on some music, and everyone was singing along. Redmayne: I was making Hick with Chloe Moretz and Blake Lively in North Carolina. And so when I found out they were making a film I was really excited to try and be a part of it. And as you get older, the thing about Les Mis is that there are other characters that you start to relate to, depending on where you are in your life. So when you listen to something when you’re that young, it kind of sits in you. He kind of rules the city… I was like, how a little kid can take such control over the circumstance, and he was a rock star and I wanted to be him. The Hollywood Reporter: You got bit by the Les Mis bug early on - tell me about wanting to play Gavroche.Įddie Redmayne: I saw it at age eight. Redmayne - who’s gregarious, unfailingly polite and “the description of the word ‘gentleman,'” according to his Les Mis co-star Samantha Barks - talks to The Hollywood Reporter about his anxiety-inducing, X Factor-like audition for Marius, and what it was like to act opposite Hugh Jackman’s Jean Valjean. TV series Birdsong and a host of stage work including the play Red, for which he won a Tony Award in 2010. His acting credits include the 2011 films My Week With Marilyn and Hick, the U.K. ![]() The 30-year-old Brit’s clear singing voice and passionate delivery of songs such as “In My Life” and “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” has earned him lots of Whoa, I didn’t know he could sing buzz from gimlet-eyed film critics and Les Mis geeks alike. ![]() As Marius in Tom Hooper‘s adaptation of Les Miserables, Eddie Redmayne‘s performance as the love-struck revolutionary is surprising audiences at early screenings of the eagerly-awaited film. ![]()
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