Eddie

In Tyrannosaur, you play one of the most revolting and abusive characters I’ve ever seen on screen. After playing such menacing, strange or insidious characters, does it take you a while to “come down”? writeronthestorm,
MattDarcy7 and HamesJoyceNo. I play nasty people all the time. It never really affects me. The only thing that ever affected me was when we were making the BBC TV drama God on Trial and I had to read up on parents in concentration camps whose children were 500ft away in a children’s barracks. That really…

Screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns has crafted a nifty procedural thriller based on the true-crime case of Charles Cullen, the New Jersey nurse who in 2003 was finally arrested after apparently killing hundreds of patients over the years by covertly administering lethal, intravenous overdoses. The director is Tobias Lindholm, the film-maker and writer who has also worked with Thomas Vinterberg on The Hunt and Another Round; Eddie Redmayne is the insidiously personable and caring Cullen, and Jessica Chastain plays his…

Jamie Lee Curtis has been in several memorable movies dating back to her feature film debut as Laurie Strode in the original Halloween. Outside of horror though, Curtis has been a comedy staple, with cult classics like Trading Places and True Lies (which paired her with Arnold Schwarzenegger) under her belt. The former marked a change of pace for the renowned scream queen, as she played Ophelia, a hooker with a heart of gold. The comedy also allowed her to star alongside Saturday Night Live stars Dan Aykroyd and Eddie…

Eddie Redmayne has admitted he doesn’t think he’s made many “great” films.The actor can next be seen playing American serial killer Charles Cullen in the Netflix movie The Good Nurse.Redmayne, 40, has had an award-winning career spanning 20 years. He won an Oscar in 2015 for his performance as the physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, and was nominated for another the following year for his controversial role as pioneering transgender woman Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl.But he still doesn’t think he’s made…

An Oscar-nominated director has cast two dozen real-life medics in a film that stars Eddie Redmayne and is based on the true story of a nurse who murdered patients in his care.Tobias Lindholm said he recruited nurses, doctors and paramedics to make the performances of his lead actors, Redmayne and Jessica Chastain, all the more “naturalistic”.In the Netflix feature The Good Nurse, Redmayne plays Charles Cullen, who used intravenous tubes to poison patients with lethal drugs. Described as an “angel of death”, Cullen is…

Eddie Izzard has revealed that the late Alan Rickman spoilt one of Harry Potter’s biggest twists over a dinner.Rickman played Severus Snape in the hit film adaptations of JK Rowling’s wizard-themed children’s books.Comedian and activist Izzard reflected on her interactions with Rickman for a recent feature in The Guardian.According to Izzard, she went out to dinner with Rickman in New York while she was there performing in a play. “Alan had started playing Professor Snape from the Harry Potter films,” Izzard recalled. “He…

‘From furnishings to sausages, his taste was impeccable’Emma ThompsonThe most remarkable thing about the first days after Alan died was the number of actors, poets, musicians, playwrights and directors who wanted to express their gratitude for all the help he’d given them. I don’t think I know anyone in this business who has championed more aspiring artists, nor unerringly perceived so many great ones before they became great. Quite a number said that, latterly, they had been too shy to thank him personally. They had…

British actors don’t come more versatile than Eddie Marsan. You may remember him from when he played a henchman opposite Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible III, the Sherlock-consulting Inspector with Robert Downey Jr in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, or as one of Simon Pegg’s last surviving pub-crawlers in The World’s End.On TV, Marsan moved up through The Bill, Casualty, EastEnders (and an appearance as wanted criminal and Samantha Womack’s ex-boyfriend and in an episode of late 90s comedy, Game On), to older brother…

Paramount Good news for fans of the upcoming Beverly Hills Cop 4 movie today as it’s been revealed that four of the franchise’s best-known characters will all appear in the upcoming sequel. This means Judge Reinhold is back as Detective Billy Rosewood, and and John Ashton returns as Sgt. Taggart. Also returning: Bronson Pinchot as Serge, and Paul Reiser as Axel’s partner in Detroit named Jeffrey Friedman, according to Deadline. No word yet on whether the famous banana-in-the-tailpipe gag will return, but one…

Amanda Edwards / Getty Images During the Toronto International Film Festival, Eddie Redmayne admitted that he truly wished for empty chairs during his “appalling” vocal rendition as Marius in Les Misérables. Prompted by a conversation in which he sought to reflect on his career, Redmayne took a self-deprecating turn when he overly criticized his own performance of “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” in the 2012 musical Les Misérables, affirming that the song requires a certain fragility to engulf the audience, even…