And he also gets the stamp of approval from the most important man of all.
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/watch-step ... 44887.htmlStephen Hawking wrote: “I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well”, “at times, I thought he was me.”
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/watch-step ... 44887.htmlStephen Hawking wrote: “I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well”, “at times, I thought he was me.”
There's far more challenge in playing Stephen Hawking than replicating his physical condition. He need to get inside his head, understand his frustrations, his beliefs, his ambition. It would be impossible to do that without appreciating Hawkings love of astrophysics. Redmayne doesn't have to "dig science" to play Hawking, but he has to understand the mind that does in order to get under the skin and really inhabit the role.Inanna wrote: It is not a reflection of how well Redmayne acted in his role as Hawking - where the challenges are not to depict stephen's opinion of astrologers and the dissemination of science amongst the public but his physical condition. So Redmayne could easily not dig science, but play Stephen very well.
That was my perception definitely. Which is why I think I was so taken aback with the Capricorn quote. The prevalence of astrology vs science in American society is something scientists like Hawking, Carl Sagan have been very vocal about - negatively.Alatar wrote:There's far more challenge in playing Stephen Hawking than replicating his physical condition. He need to get inside his head, understand his frustrations, his beliefs, his ambition. It would be impossible to do that without appreciating Hawkings love of astrophysics. Redmayne doesn't have to "dig science" to play Hawking, but he has to understand the mind that does in order to get under the skin and really inhabit the role.Inanna wrote: It is not a reflection of how well Redmayne acted in his role as Hawking - where the challenges are not to depict stephen's opinion of astrologers and the dissemination of science amongst the public but his physical condition. So Redmayne could easily not dig science, but play Stephen very well.
Eddie Redmayne Recalls Meeting Stephen Hawking, Telling Him, "We're Both Capricorns"—Check Out His Reply
by Corinne Heller Thu., Sep. 18, 2014 10:19 AM PDT
Eddie Redmayne had what sounds like a rather awkward first meeting with Stephen Hawking, who he plays in the new film The Theory of Everything.
The 32-year-old British actor recalled in an interview with M magazine, which features him on the cover of its Fall 2014 issue, trying to find something to discuss with the 72-year-old world-renowned physicist, who suffers from a motor neuron disease, is confined to a wheelchair and communicates with a voice box. The topics of conversation included, well, Hawking.
"Here I was, filling the air, telling him about himself," Redmayne said. "I was a nervous wreck. He was laughing a lot. I couldn't tell if it was with me or at me. Probably a bit of both."
And then the actor began to talk about something very far away from science.
"He makes a big point in his books that he was born on the eighth of January, which is the date of Galileo's death," Redmayne told M. "I said, ‘You're the eighth, and I was actually born on the sixth of January, so we're both Capricorns.' Long pause, and then the famous computerized voice: 'I'm an astronomer, not an astrologer,' Hawking said."
"I thought, 'Holy s--t. Stephen Hawking thinks the actor who's playing him thinks he's Mystic Meg or Shelley von Strunckel," he said, naming two astrologers.
The actor also told M he was "riddled with fear" about playing the "extraordinary man" and "living icon" in The Theory of Everything. He said he spent several months visiting a motor neuron disease clinic to prepare for his role.
"And then you feel a responsibility to the science and a need to find the emotional truth of what happened between these people," he said. "All of these things were pretty challenging, and I was fueled with fear from the word go."