eddie redmayne – half-girl, half-robot

I’m basically spun in the air at about 50mph. It was for a moment in the film in which I go through what they call a ‘grav-through’. I almost vomited at the end. I was so unprepared for this gigantic wedgie, dressed head-to-toe in leathers.

Eddie Redmayne on the experience of performing stunts in a tight leather costume

Like Balem, Redmayne is fond of velvet. ‘Velvet is great. It’s warm as well. And it’s snug,’ he says. ‘Go full velvet is my advice.’

Eddie Redmayne extolling the virtues of velvet during an interview with GQ magazine

We started our first day with Eddie ahead of schedule, and by the end of the day, we were a half-day behind. And when our UPM had to fill out the report, he filled in the place where it says ‘Reason for falling behind schedule.’ And he wrote, ‘The directors have fallen in love with Eddie Redmayne’.

Andy Wachowski on working with Eddie Redmayne on Jupiter Ascending

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Behind-the-scenes gifs from the Jupiter Ascending b-roll. All created by me, so please don’t steal without permission!

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I play a very vain tycoon out in space, as one does. Unfortunately, part of the deal was that I had to be ripped and I’ve never been ripped in my life, and so I did that thing that Hollywood actors do of being fed nothing but chicken for months and doing, like, eight gazillion stomach crunches. And it got to the scene and, basically, you know, I’d literally worked months and I think it’s, blink and you’ll miss. I don’t think there’s even a moment of observing the abs. It’s disastrous, kind of. And the worst thing of all was I was hoping that after this, after all these months of doing crunches, at least after filming this, I could get a day off to really go with my wife and we could go to a beach and I could just stand there for a moment going “Haaa! Look what I’ve got!” But I’m hoping maybe one day they’ll reemerge, come from their fossilized place, my abs.

Eddie Redmayne sharing his disappointment that his abs were cut from Jupiter Ascending, on the Conan O’Brien Show.