Eddie Redmayne hasn't made many 'great' films
msn.comEddie Redmayne doesn't think he has made "many" films that are "great". The 40-year-old actor - whose extensive career has seen him recognised with an Academy Award, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA , and two Laurence Olivier Awards - insisted he hasn't done that well in his work and even as a student at Cambridge alongside the likes of Rebecca Hall, Dan Stevens and Tom Hiddleston, he always found his own performances lacking.
He told The Times' Saturday Review: “The aspiration is always to make a great film and I don’t think I’ve made many of those. . . "[At university] I remember seeing Tom in 'Arcadia' and he was amazing.
Rebecca was always extraordinary, and I remember Dan doing the Scottish play with extraordinary power too. "But to be clear, the theatre that I did in Cambridge was utterly appalling. ” When Eddie made 'Les Miserables', he confessed to asking director Tom Hooper if he could do multiple takes of the 'Empty Chairs' number because people on set had been praising his co-stars so much.
He admitted: “I did twentysomething takes, back to back. "Because every day on that set you’d hear someone saying [drops voice to reverential whisper]: ‘Oh, have you heard Hugh’s [Jackman] extraordinary rendition of 'Who Am I'?
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