![]() ![]() Never gonna happen but it’ll be fun to go.” A few days after we meet, he also gets a Bafta nomination to add to the tally. It’s encouraging that enough of Redmayne’s peers noticed his creepy but admirably level-headed work in The Good Nurse to vote for him in next month’s Screen Actors Guild awards. “Well, ‘bold’ is probably too kind a word.” But I loved making choices that were …” He wrinkles his nose. ![]() ![]() I honestly haven’t watched the whole movie. “I didn’t know what I was doing,” he says. And don’t forget the Golden Raspberry award he won for worst supporting actor in the Wachowski sisters’ incomprehensible fantasy Jupiter Ascending, where he was a rasping, pursed-lipped princeling in outfits worthy of a fetish night: stiff gold collars, stippled rubber vests, bare chest underneath. What a job for an art history graduate, even if Redmayne’s dissertation at Cambridge was on Yves Klein’s blue. Each night, he and his co-star Alfred Molina splashed paint around on stage as they mocked up giant imitation Rothkos. He took home his first Olivier (as well as a Tony) in 2010 for playing Mark Rothko’s assistant in Red. Whatever else is going on, he’s fucking fine.” Redmayne’s approach to the character, he says, “is that he would shape-shift and emerge as this Aryan conductor who could drop his baton in one of the champagne bottles at the end, and then walk off into the night. A soundtrack recording, taped during live performances for added wildness, has just been released. He got the big three (Oscar, Bafta, Golden Globe) for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, and an Olivier last year for his lizardly, mercurial Emcee in Cabaret, which also starred Jessie Buckley as Sally Bowles. In fact, his party trick is quite the opposite: he makes awards appear. Photograph: JoJo Whilden/Courtesy of Netflix ‘A character study combined with a critique of the system’ … Redmayne as Charles Cullen with Jessica Chastain as Amy Loughren in The Good Nurse. ![]()
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