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Happy back to hogwarts day!!!

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Happy birthday newt scamander!!

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Happy birthday Eddie Redmayne!!!

Happy birthday Queenie Goldstein!!!

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That’s a wrap!

Sweet video snippet of Eddie Redmayne at Zurich Film Festival from photographer Silvan Giger on Instagram.

@silvangigerstudio This week was a blast and it still feels surreal to me! It was a great honour to work with such amazing, kind and fun people, both in front and behind the camera. @charlottegainsbourg @dianekruger @rebelwilson Eddie Redmayne @louisgarrel_official Liam Neeson

Thank you to the @zurichfilmfestival for the trust and support. I am beyond excited to share the results from this surreal experience with you soon! Feeling blessed to call this my job. x S.

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Night out for British film

Eddie Redmayne + Hannah Bagshawe attend the British Film Institute (BFI) Luminous Fundraising Gala Thursday night at The Londoner in Leicester Square.

Next week: The London Film Festival, where Eddie’s latest, The Good Nurse, will have its UK premiere. He’ll be joined by co-star Jessica Chastain + the real-life Good Nurse of the story, Amy Loughren.

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After the L-O-N-G wait, of course we’re celebrating the release of The Good Nurse on the October page of our Eddie Redmayne calendar! We’ve included the important release dates in theaters + on Netflix, as well as festival appearances.

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Happy October!

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Hello October! Eddie's latest movie "The Good Nurse" is coming! It premieres on October 26 on Netflix! I can't wait to watch it!

#October 1st

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Does it ever drive you crazy?

Just how fast the night changes ..

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Tina Goldstein in Newt Scamander's case - Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

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Tina Goldstein in Newt Scamander's case - Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

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Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban: Portraits (2004)

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Alice in Wonderland (1951) dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske

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There are two main reasons that made me love the scene from The Secrets of Dumbledore. The one is the obvious parallel with Newt and Tina, and I’m pretty sure that in this moment Newt is reminded of her. The second is that being in the Wand Permit Office is a demotion compared to being an auror, so Newt is absolutely delighted knowing that Lally basically demoted his brother.

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**I used automatic Google translator for this article that’s originally in Italian, so some sentence structure may look a little wonky. I didn’t edit any of it, just copy&paste.**

Eddie Redmayne: “My kids think I’m a magician. I had to learn to be a magician”

At 40, strong from many blockbusters, such as Fantastic Beasts, Eddie Redmayne tells us about the true luxury of success: being able to work less to spend more time with the children. Or to play in the cinema, in The good nurse , the most ruthless serial killer ever.

by Marco Mancassola, photos by Laura Bailey, shoot by Cathy Kasterine

If you are an actor who has won an Oscar and an impressive list of other awards, you will enjoy at least one strategic advantage: that of choosing the next role from many offers. “Yes,” admits Eddie Redmayne almost apologetically. “It is an extraordinary privilege to be able to choose.”

We meet him at the launch of his new film, it is the first interview he has granted in some time. He looks relaxed and is wearing a white shirt. Over the years we have seen him in the best known interpretations of him: astrophysicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything ; transgender artist Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl ; the “magizoologist” Newt Scamander in the Fantastic Beasts saga . And in various other films and plays.

  We weren’t sure what to expect for the next role, but we certainly wouldn’t have imagined finding him in a true crime film and playing a record-breaking serial killer. Coming out soon on Netflix, The good nurse revolves around the true story of American nurse Charlie Cullen. One who killed patients by purposely administering toxic drugs, considered perhaps the deadliest serial killer ever: investigators estimate that between the 1990s and the early 2000s he killed between 300 and 1000 people between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Helping him was the reticence of the private hospitals where he worked, which preferred not to investigate suspicious deaths for fear of legal action.

Let’s start with him, with Charlie Cullen.

“Reading the script, I was seduced by his apparent kindness. He was empathetic and his colleague Amy Loughren says he was also a funny guy, one who teased and joked about his divorced life. What Amy didn’t know at first was that she used her human skills as a weapon to manipulate others. He had behind him suicide attempts, a series of admissions to psychiatric hospitals. Unbelievable that he was allowed to work in intensive care units. “

Amy Loughren is the title good nurse , played by Jessica Chastain. The colleague who, sensing Cullen’s crimes, collaborated with the police to collect evidence and have him arrested. What idea do you have about her motivations? “Whenever I talk about Charlie’s story with someone, he asks me, ‘Why was he doing that?’ At the beginning he worked in the units of the great burn victims, perhaps he saw people dying and wanted them to stop suffering. Then, afterwards, he injected harmful drugs at random, to whoever happened. ’

But as an actor he will need to understand the character’s motivations. What did you reply?

“That it was impossible to find an answer. The temptation, at that point, could be to judge him, but he wouldn’t help me as an actor. Rather, I put everything I knew about him, the research I had done, into a cauldron, then let it settle. Then on the set I tried, together with Jessica, to make it as realistic as possible ».

Do you feel different pressure when interpreting a true story?

“There is a moral responsibility, in this case towards the families of the victims. He reassured me that the director was Tobias Lindholm: in his films he often narrated real events and he always avoided sensationalism ».

Here Redmayne pauses, staring at the window in his study.

“I didn’t go to acting school. I have no recipes on how to act. I take one job at a time and start from scratch. Now, what I like about playing a real person is that there is something to start with. A book written about that person, photographs or portraits, videos, and this research aspect is among the parts of my work that I prefer. For this movie, Jessica and I went to nursing school. We learned how to put an IV, do a heart massage, read the code system ».

A key element of Redmayne’s career is precisely the work on the physicality of the characters. In The good nurse every detail is decisive: the way Cullen squints, his shoulders hunched, the typical nurse’s walk with which he walks the corridors. Even the way he swallows. Redmayne has worked with a director of the movement, with whom he has collaborated since he was preparing the character of the disabled scientist Stephen Hawking.

At this point we tell him that we saw him at the theater, a few months ago, in London in the West End, in the new version of Cabaret . He lights up: putting that musical back on its feet was his personal project, it took him years to do it (his role was that of the Master of Ceremonies and earned him an Olivier Award). Seeing him on stage was a shock, a “Redmaynian moment”. There was something special about his physical performance, the sinuous exuberance with which he bent and twisted in the shadows of the stage.

This physical dimension, this physically becoming someone else… Do you worry that as you age it may become more difficult? “Oh my God, already doing Cabaret it was exhausting (laughs, ed). For months I haven’t touched alcohol, straight home after every show, rest and workout and then staged again. The rest of the cast, which is formidable, is made up of 20-year-old actors… ».

Yet he kept up.

“There was only one actress older than me, her name is Anna-Jane Casey, she’s fifty, she ran marathons when we were on stage. When she heard me complain about being too old, she would say shut your mouth, Redmayne. ’

On January 6, you turned forty. Has anything changed in your perspective as an actor? “It is not so much a question of the precise age, but of reflecting on the point of life in which I find myself. I have two children aged four and six. I think more carefully before accepting a role. Theater, for example, is great, but it means staying up late at night six times a week, missing the time to put the kids to bed and wake up the next morning. You have had a weight on my family ».

What do the children know about her work? "They came to the set of The Good Nurse and were mostly interested in the snack table.”

What about Fantastic Beasts ? Have they seen the movies? “No, just the trailers. Their friends at school said I am a magician. In order not to disappoint them, I had to learn some magic tricks. But the youngest is not at all convinced: it is not enough for him to make a coin disappear, he asks me if I can blow up a building like in the movie trailers ».

When she was the kid, and dreamed of becoming a great actor, how did you imagine her life as an adult? More or less like the one he has now? «My love for acting comes from the theater. It was probably what I dreamed of as a child. Up to a point I had no aspirations for cinema or television ».

Had it not been for the casting director who spotted him on stage in 2006, perhaps he would have remained a stage actor. The first film was an obscure Australian thriller. Not quite a success. Eight years later here is The Theory of Everything , with the achievement of the Oscar. How has that milestone changed you? “It’s not like he changed all of a sudden. I had auditioned for years, I got certain parts, not others, and then they give me this extraordinary role, of an exceptional person. And the alchemy of cinema allowed me to be lucky enough to win an award ». He smiles as he continues: «Then, since I won an Oscar … now there are directors who on the set tell me:“ Ok, now you just do as you know ”. But I got this far thanks to being directed, and one of the best moments of my work is when a director pushes me, stimulates me. It is a profession that must be shared, it cannot be a solo number ».

Changing geography, how are things going in Los Angeles? The life of actors who work in Hollywood always arouses curiosity. When you are there, does there come a time when you are assimilated or are you condemned to be an outsider ? “It depends on whether you choose to live there or not. If you don’t live there permanently, sure, you are an outsider and maybe that’s not a bad thing: it remains the city of dreams. When I was younger I lived there for a while with other actor friends. And for me it had lost its magical light ».

Friends were Jamie Dornan, Andrew Garfield, Robert Pattinson, a generation of British actors who, early in their careers, dated and shared cheap houses while looking for work and getting noticed. All very young, now all in the “forty zone”. “If I think back to that period it all seems so romantic, but in reality it was also very frustrating”

At this point a memory resurfaces. A few years ago we read that Eddie Redmayne was helping out some actors with no income by paying them rent. Today we know that he supports associations that help young actors in difficulty. Even living in London, as for him in Hollywood, costs grotesquely and the fees for acting schools are very high. With the current economic climate, the situation will not improve. “It’s a battle,” he says. “Especially if you have a government that doesn’t believe in the arts industries and their support. It seems to me that today the British cultural prestige, in terms of actors, theater, musicians, directors, is taken too much for granted, as if it was no longer necessary to invest in it. And yet it is not like that ».

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1951) dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske