![]() LAWRENCE: I don’t know if you get this, but I get embarrassed really easily when I have to have big meltdown scenes. And then you get offered the job, and you have a moment of euphoria, and then you basically want to be sick for the first year. REDMAYNE: You do that thing of trying to chase down the job, sounding incredibly confident because you never think you’ll get it. LAWRENCE: That would scare the shit out of me. When I was cast, my mate Charlie Cox, who plays Jonathan in the film, said, “If you get the opportunity to play Stephen Hawking, you have no option but to give it your everything. You were so fantastic! I didn’t even know some of that was possible.ĮDDIE REDMAYNE: Well, thank you. JENNIFER LAWRENCE: I watched The Theory of Everything with my jaw dropped the entire time. Fresh off her worldwide press tour for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, the Oscar winner called Redmayne, who was in Turin, Italy, to talk about running on fear, Real Housewives addiction, fake falls, and bad salmon. Jennifer Lawrence, who knows a bit about sci-fi, met Redmayne years ago through director Oliver Stone. ![]() ![]() This month, Redmayne will again aim for the heavens, in the Wachowskis’ space opera Jupiter Ascending, donning some serious mascara in the process to play an extra-planetary villain. But if Redmayne’s early work showed that he could be an engaging performer, his recent work (including Tom Hooper’s starry 2012 production of Les Misérables, in which the actor stormed the barricades as the romantic Marius) showed him to be as ambitious as he is talented. Or at least an Oscar.īorn in London in 1982 and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied art history, Redmayne came up with some dynamic and swoon-worthy roles in lush period pieces such as Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Robert De Niro’s CIA saga The Good Shepherd, and the epic 2010 miniseries The Pillars of the Earth. There’s an old saying, the kind you might find in the office of a high school guidance counselor, that goes something like, “Shoot for the moon, and even if you miss, you’ll end up among the stars.” Eddie Redmayne is an actor already on the rise, but with his performance as a young Stephen Hawking in search of the secrets of the universe in this past fall’s The Theory of Everything, he shot past the moon and may well end up with interstellar stardom. I’m entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it could be a catastrophic disaster made me unable to sleep, and made me work quite hard. I am hoping we will create an experience for you quite unlike any other.I’m just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I am beyond excited to be doing it arm-in-arm with the remarkable Gayle Rankin and a truly stunning cast and team. It now feels completely thrilling and a little surreal to be a part of Rebecca’s truly unique vision of Masteroff, Kander, and Ebb’s brilliance as it arrives on Broadway, where the piece has such a history. Redmayne, too, weighed in, saying in a statement, “It was whilst playing ‘The Emcee’ in a student production of Cabaret over 25 years ago that my love for theater was properly ignited. “I am completely honored,” said Rankin, “to hold hands with Sally inside of this singular, powerful production, and forever grateful to Rebecca, Eddie, and the whole family for inviting me into its creation on Broadway.” Rankin has a strong background in theater, and will be seen in the second season of HBO’s House of the Dragon as healer Alys Rivers. The original staging of the London revival featured Jessie Buckley as Sally.Īdditional casting and other news about Cabaret on Broadway will be announced in the coming weeks. I’m so excited to be reuniting with Eddie as our devilishly seductive Emcee, the metaphorical soul of Berlin, and I cannot wait to dive into rehearsals with Gayle, a fearless actor of supreme talent, as she explores Cabaret’s magnetic core, the breathtaking and heartbreaking Sally Bowles.” ![]() Acts of courage, defiance, hope, delusion, fear, and anger ricochet between them and their circumstances, all intensely human responses to a world in chaos. Masteroff, Kander, and Ebb have created characters on the brink, in a world where the rules are changing. Said director Frecknall, “ Cabaret is a masterpiece of writing which continues to reveal its richness to us. 2023 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming
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