That Time a Brown-Toothed Taylor Swift Auditioned With a Bad-Breathed Eddie Redmayne (Video)
thewrap.comgood time, not a long time. I wasn’t going to get the role,” Swift said with a smile.Nevertheless, she was called to England to do a screen test with Redmayne, who had already been cast as Marius Pontmercy.
She thought, “’This seems like an experience I want to have in my life.’ [Eddie’s] one of my favorite actors. You’re so ridiculously talented.
And I was like, ‘Yeah I’ll go to London.'”But when she got there, they wanted her to be fully in character as a 19th-century street urchin, which meant costume, brown teeth and dark circles under her eyes like Éponine was near death.“They were like, ‘We’re actually going to paint your teeth brown for this,’” she recalled. “I was like, ‘You are going to do that after I meet Eddie Redmayne, right?
That’s not something you do before.’ I get to meet people and then you do the brown teeth.’” But no such luck.“This has immediately become a nightmare for me,” she joked, adding that she didn’t open her mouth to talk with him because of the hideous colorization on her usually pearly whites.
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