

Variety’s “Awards Circuit” podcast, produced by Michael Schneider, who also co-hosts with Clayton Davis, is your one-stop listen for lively conversations about the best in film and television. So it’s I think that voices and me don’t work that well.”Īlso on this episode of the Awards Circuit Podcast, director Rian Johnson discusses his new film “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” in addition to discussing the state of his planned “Star Wars” trilogy and how many “Knives Out” movies he will continue to make.įinally, the Awards Circuit roundtable is back to talk about the week’s latest releases including “The Banshees of Inisherin,” the next festival stop at the Savannah Film Festival and the campaign news for the films “She Said” from Universal Pictures and “Women Talking” from MGM/UAR. He adds, “I did a similar thing auditioning for ‘Star Wars’ once in which I tried to do my sort of sci-fi baddie voice, which in the past won me a Razzie. Redmayne discusses delving into the role of Cullen, how he fears he may have traumatized his children when they realized he was not the good nurse in the film and early auditions – including one for “The Hobbit” where he put on a character voice he now regrets. So one of the intriguing qualities I found about playing Charlie was actually playing this empathetic man who then weaponized his empathy to do utterly horrific things.” “I’ve played empathy as a big part of them and talking to the real Amy Loughren, the Charlie Cullen that she met in these wards was an empathetic man: gentle, kind, funny, self-deprecating. “The most interesting work for me is when directors see something in you, and Tobias Lindholm saw something in me,” says Redmayne, adding that many of his character have had a common trait. He says he wasn’t necessarily drawn to the role because it was against type. But the actor also shows us eerie glimpses of the monster underneath.
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Redmayne is clever casting, as Cullen spends a good part of the movie being a loyal friend and confidante to Amy. Directed by Tobias Lindholm with a script by Krysty Wilson-Cairns, “The Good Nurse” also stars Jessica Chastain as Amy Loughren, a close friend of Cullen’s who ultimately helped bring him to justice.
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26) in which he portrays Charles Cullen, a serial killer who confessed to murdering 40 patients under his care (though experts predict that number could be as high as 400). It was a passion project for Redmayne, who first played the part when he was a teenager and calls it a “dream role.”Īnd this week sees the release of “The Good Nurse” (currently in theaters, and streaming on Netflix starting Oct. Earlier this year, he played the mysterious Emcee in a revival of “Cabaret” opposite Jessie Buckley as Sally Bowles (winning both stars Olivier Awards).
Redmayne is primarily known for playing lovable and endearing characters – in addition to Scamander, that includes his Oscar-winning turn as Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” the bright-eyed Marius in “Les Misérables” and the transgender painter Lile Elbe in “The Danish Girl.”īut Redmayne is coming off a string of roles in which he was cast against type. He also discusses his time in “Fantastic Beasts” and what’s coming next. On this edition of the award-winning Variety Awards Circuit podcast, Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory of Everything”) talks about his new role in “ The Good Nurse,” which has put him in the Oscar conversation for best supporting actor.
