


We did push it pretty far.”Ĭo-star Anne Hathaway won an Oscar for her role opposite Redmayne, while fellow cast member Amanda Seyfried similarly sought to showcase her singing chops post-“Les Mis.” “Because at least when you’re not happy with what you end up seeing, you know that you went for it. “I’m going to go until I can’t go anymore,” Redmayne said of the shoot. Jessica Chastain Talks Eddie Redmayne’s Killer-Good Performance in ‘The Good Nurse’įor “Les Misérables,” Redmayne noted that director Hooper sought five to six takes per scene, but Redmayne was determined to keep shooting.

“And that’s what we did here on this piece eventually.” “De Niro has this process where he’s filming, and you’d do a take, an emotional take, and then he would stop you and get you to go back and start again, and take the accumulation of that emotion and repress that and fire that back into the start of a scene,” Redmayne shared. Redmayne noted that he channeled the concept of emotion over vocal accuracy after working with Robert De Niro on “The Good Shepherd,” which De Niro directed. “Technically, it’s appallingly sung, but it’s got like a fragility that helps sell the song.” “I love the frailty,” the “Theory of Everything” alum said, via Entertainment Weekly. Director Tom Hooper filmed the musical numbers live to recreate the emotional experience of doing a musical onstage, but Redmayne revealed he thought his singing ability was less than perfect. While at the Toronto International Film Festival promoting Netflix’s “The Good Nurse,” the Oscar winner reflected on 2012’s “Les Misérables” a decade after its release. Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne knows not all of his roles hit a high note.
