Eddie Redmayne doesn’t hide his thoughts on wearing prosthetics.
In an interview with Diversity which was released on Friday, November 8, the Oscar winner, 42, went into graphic detail about wearing the special effects makeup used to transform his character into Day of the Jackala modern retelling of the classic 1973 film.
In the first episode of the thriller series Peacock, Redmayne disguises himself as “an elderly German cleaner”.
“My overwhelming memory of those days was Richard coming in and poking at the prosthesis and this sweat dripping off the top,” Redmayne told the publication.
Eddie Redmayne in ‘The Day of the Jackal’.
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Eddie Redmayne and wife Hannah Bagshawe Twin at Met Gala 2024.
“You don’t have a lot of prep time with them because they cost so much money and take so long to put on,” Fantastic beasts added the actor. “And they’re so uncomfortable that people often say, ‘Oh, it’s a prosthetic performance.’ ”
“But I’ve experienced a lot of it myself, when I watch someone like Colin Farrell’s performance [in The Penguin] or Gary Oldman’s performance [in The Darkest Hour]you don’t have much time to prepare in it. So it’s really a trial and error experience.”
An important part of creating a believable prosthetic, Redmayne added, is creating a voice that fits. IN Day of the JackalRedmayne spoke German as an elderly carer while under layers of makeup.
“You can have beautiful prosthetics, but if it doesn’t match the voice, then you’re screwed,” he said. “Once you’ve prepared the German language, then you have to give it up to marry the fact that this guy is a 70-year-old smoker.”
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Eddie Redmayne 2024.
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The Peacock Show is an adaptation of the 1973 film of the same name. In the remake of Peacock, “the unsurpassed and highly elusive lone assassin, Jackal, makes his living by performing hits for top pay,” reads the official synopsis.
“But after his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer (Lashana Lynch) who tracks down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in his wake.”
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Eddie Redmayne in ‘The Day of the Jackal’.
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Eddie Redmayne will reprise his role as Newt Scamander in the Ministry of Magic-themed Harry Potter that lands at Universal
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Day of the Jackal premieres Thursday, November 14 with its first five episodes on Peacock. The remaining five episodes will air weekly on the streaming service.
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