Here is a lovely photo of Eddie Redmayne in the new issue of Vogue. I have to apologize for largely ignoring him this year. I paid a lot of attention to him during the Les Miserables promotion, when his amazing style kept stealing focus from the ladies of Les Mis. But this year I’ve had an ulterior motive for ignoring him – his performance in The Theory of Everything has received rave reviews, and I worry that the Academy voters will feel like they can only nominate ONE posh English boy and I really want that posh English boy to be Benedict Cumberbatch. Yes, I will throw Redmayne under the bus for Bendy. I have no shame! But I can’t ignore Redmayne forever, especially since he’s been in NYC for the past week to promote his movie (I’m including some additional pics at the end of the post).
So, Vogue gave Eddie a really nice write-up. Incidentally, Eddie is featured in many of the major magazines this fall. Vanity Fair did a photoshoot with Eddie and a basket of puppies too! You can read Eddie’s Vogue profile here and here are some highlights:
His early days as a model: “The most success I think I had was doing a knitting magazine that was sent to grannies, but after my huge, heady days in the knitting books, I left it behind.”
Filming scenes at Cambridge, his alma mater, with Stephen Hawking there: “It was like stepping back in time. Everyone was dressed, and we were waiting for the fireworks display. As if on cue, Stephen came in in his wheelchair with his caregivers—it was nighttime, and his face was uplit by his computer screen—and just as he arrived, the fireworks went off. It was the most rock-star entrance I’ve ever seen.”
He visited ALS patients and caregivers: “Stephen Hawking is their great hope because he has lived so long.” Redmayne tells the story of the wife of a totally immobilized patient who was asked, on film, what the worst thing was about her husband having ALS. “And she says, ‘Oh my God, d’you know what? I don’t know where to start,’ and she just stands there and then breaks down, and you watch her husband try to move his body to hug her, and he can’t do anything, and so she has to come and hold him.”
Going to Eton, studying Art History at Cambridge: “I come from a totally unmusical, untheatrical family. But when I was younger, Mum and Dad quite enjoyed musicals, so we would be taken to see Les Mis, and I saw the little kid in it—Gavroche—and kind of slightly hero-worshipped him. And so I sort of dreamed of that.”
His free time: Redmayne is a fanatical theatergoer—he recently saw Mark Strong in A View from the Bridge and Gillian Anderson in A Streetcar Named Desire, both British productions—and draws and practices his piano. “I have very erratic tastes,” he says, “but basically I go back to things I learned as a kid when I actually practiced—I butcher a bit of Mozart and Chopin.”
His “wife-to-be”: She’s Hannah Bagshawe, they’ve been together a couple of years, though he couldn’t find any way to check her ring size before he proposed—other than waiting until “the middle of the night, taking her hand, and putting her finger next to my finger.”
Gah! That story about the ring size got to me. As did Eddie’s final act of the interview, which was to ask the journalist politely when she was going to write the article and “Do you know what it’s going to be? As in. . .? Because normally it’s just like a little thingy. Is it bigger than that?” Aw. He wanted to know if he was going to get a bigger write-up in Vogue. Most actors wouldn’t even bother asking. Okay, okay… he’s a sweetheart. I should pay more attention to him. Honk if you want more Redmayne coverage!! The problem is that while he’s very sweet and he just seems like the nicest guy ever, that’s not really the best click-bait you know? Say what you will about Benedict’s otter realness, but it brings all the Cumberbitches to the yard.
Photos courtesy of David Sims/VOGUE and WENN.
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And sorry Benedict, if only one posh English boy can get an oscar nomination I want it to be Eddie.
Eddie > Cumby
Same here, but I think there’s room for both 🙂
Can someone explain this to me
Explain what, joe spider?
Why people write “Honk”.
Because Kaiser said we should if we want more posts about Eddie.
HONK! Loved him since Pillars of the Earth
Me too!
Me three!! Honk, honk!
He was so great in Pillars!
*pppppfft* (squeaky fart, non honk sound)
I was thinking more like *screeching tires very loud crash & burning up in flames*. Sounds like a nice guy but um, he’s wearing Jennifer Garner’s nude lipstick and that is just so unhonkable.
Lol, definitely unhonkable. He’s making me like the Otter King…
Don’t go there, Abbot! He melts and stuff, you’ll be covered in cumberwax in 2.2 minutes flat.
Honking for more coverage!
Honk, honk, honk! Big fan here!
Honk! He is so cute.
Julia Roberts (TM) honk!
Honk! Loved him in Birdsong!
oh i don’t know?
it’s all Benny-this and Reddy-that
and Hardy-so, time for some Murphy-more
and Hiddles-ho-ho!
😀
seriously missing ‘the Tomster’ 🙁
Patience! We will have plenty next year. We must not thread bomb. They made their school stage debut together (literally, Tom carried Eddie) so just picture that. Of course, he was wearing an elephant costume at the time and Eddie was dressed as a woman so you might want to improvise.
Bwahahahahahaha!!!
My dad did that! Except he put a string around her finger and marked it with Sharpie and brought it to the jeweler. So cute.
So Eddie compared their fingers while they were sleeping or what? Ha!
That is adorable.
I’ve never heard of this guy but he’s absolutely adorable!
I feel hard for him in ” my week with Marilyn” never knew much about him until then…
*lays hand on horn*
He was so good in My Week With Marilyn! I love him!!!
I’m gonna watch that this weekend!
HonkHonkHonk! Eddie is the real deal!
Love that he is marrying this rather plain looking girl (and not some model off the shelf).
I find him extremely creepy looking. So “plain looking” is pretty subjective.
I know what you mean and I agree. She’s beautiful and at the same time looks like someone who has a own life and things to do rather than putting too much makeup on and go shopping all the time. He obviously found a nice and down-to-earth girl, good for him.
Wait, can he actually close his mouth or what? It’s almost as put on as Efron’s pout thing.
More Eddie, please. Great actor, sweet guy and I love his non-showbiz wife-to-be.
Ah that’s sweet! I love my own love story but sometimes I wish I had a cuter proposal/receiving of the ring. My husband was doing the dishes when h popped his head in and goes, ‘hey let’s make sure you have my last time by the end of the yeR okay?’ And I was like sure and then we went abd picked out rings.
Don’t hate me, but I find him more attractive than Benedict. He is absolutely great and think he is as talented as his famous friends. I hope he gets nominated, although don’t think he will win!
HONK! I fell in love with him in Les Mis! The boy seems intelligent and sweet, and has the acting chops for miles to back it up. So please, honk honk honk!
HONK!
I love him so much 🙂
I absolutely adore him – more please : )
Those cheekbones. That face.
HONK!!!!
Honk!
I’ll throw Bendy under the bus for Redmayne any day.
Yes, I’m with you there. While I love Benedict’s voice, I find Eddie just so adorable. If I were younger, I’d call it a bit of a crush. Not sure what it is now, lol. Appreciation?
+millions
HOOOONK!!! he’s the bestest
Honk.
He’s beautiful.
Honk.
What a sweetheart.
Honkity honk honk hunk. I like him loads. He seems so sweet and cuddly.
Honk Honk!
Yay, a Redmayne post. I love his freckles.
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of room at the Oscars for 2 English boys. But I don’t think there’s room for 3, sorry Timothy Spall 🙁
Honk. I have seen the movie but… I think Eddie is a great actor and I would not mind see him and Benedict campaigning… This should be good!
Honk!!!
Honk! Best dressed guy ever! I still call him Angel from Tess of the d’Ubervilles. Love, love him!
I adore Eddie. He made a fantastic Angel Clare.
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Eddie is fantastic in every way. Charming, cute and even intelligent. What’s not to love?
Yes Kaiser, more of this honk, I mean “hunk”…. I haven’t seen him in anything yet, but everything I’ve read makes me like him even more the posh brits that get the lions share of attention on CB (though they provide good fodder for mocking by “the clique”, which I enjoy eversomuch). Having a non-celeb girlfriend (who rocks a killer dress in that pic above) is lovely to see too.
Looking forward to watching ToE and if ERs performance is as good as people say it is, I’d throw my Oscar vote his way. Definitely.
Honk.
he genuinely seems so sweet. Been a fan of his for a number of years when he was a virtual unknown and watching him be successful has been rewarding for a stranger who doesn’t know him 😉
My genitals don’t respond but he seems cute and I like watching him in movies.
This interview made me go ‘awwwwww’ a lot. I still don’t find him attractive, but he does seem like a very decent and nice person.
Honk. The former voice teacher in me couldn’t get past the tense, quivering jaw in Les Mis (my pet peeve) but just seeing the previews of his new film have totally changed my attitude towards this obviously talented young man.
I love Eddie! He’s got a bit of the Knightley going on (open-mouthed pouting lips galore) but he’s adorable, well-dressed, well-mannered, intelligent, charismatic in his interviews. What’s not to like? Honking alongside everyone here!
HONK!!!!!!!! love redmayne cant believe he’s 32
I went to the salon today and this issue was sitting on the couch in the waiting area. Made me happy b/c I knew he was in it. Yay!
I wayyyy prefer Eddie to Cumby. I don’t get the Cumbylove
Honk honk!
I love the story about the knitting magazine. Ha!
Many honks! Vastly prefer Eddie over Benedict.
Curious – what would the offspring of Cumby & Rumer Willis look like?
He is adorable!!!! Definitely honest and refreshing!
So cute and he gives such an awesome interview 🙂 I’ll totally honk for more of that!
I am SO in love with him. Honk honk!!!