After the constraints of lock-down, actor Eddie Redmayne was ready to get back to work. And when Redmayne goes to work, he really goes to work. There is the homework, the reading, but also the physical transformations for which he has become so well known, most famously in the role of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, for which he won an Oscar.
Today, he is sitting down with The Big Issue in the Corinthia Hotel, a stone’s throw from the theatre in which he starred opposite Jessie Buckley in Cabaret at the turn of the year (winning his second Olivier Award).
He’s here for the London Film Festival, promoting his new Netflix film, The Good Nurse – and the differences in the roles and productions could not be more stark.
As the Emcee in , Redmayne danced, sang and hissed his, he plays Charles Cullen – the notorious serial killer who is thought to have murdered as many as 400 patients at hospitals in the US from the late 1980s to early 2000s.
