Eddie Redmayne worked with dance teacher on The Theory of Everything

Eddie Redmayne worked with a dance teacher on ‘The Theory of Everything’.

The 32-year-old actor – who recently won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in the biographical film – has revealed that his dance instructor would help him scrutinise and perfect the physicality.

He said:  »I worked with a dancer as well, an amazing woman called Alex Reynolds. My instinct was to try to learn the different stages of the physicality like a dance. Like learning steps, you never have a hold of it – I’m a s**t dancer by the way – but once you know the steps, you can then play.

 »So we went to these ALS [amyotrophic lateral sclerosis] clinics in London to become educated in the specifics of the disease. Then I’d go to a studio and Alex would film me walking with a dropped foot or something, and we would go and scrutinise it. It’s one of the things that you can’t see on your own. »

Eddie also had to drop some weight for the film, but revealed that a lot of his apparent weight loss came down to clever costume and make up tricks.

Speaking to Jennifer Lawrence for Interview magazine, he shared:  »I lost, like, 15 pounds at the beginning of the film. With the disease, Stephen did lose a lot of weight. But we couldn’t shoot chronologically, so we were having to jump between different time periods within the same day.

 »Our extraordinary makeup artist, Jan [Sewell], and costume designer, Steven [Noble], did clever things like making the collars tight and my makeup look healthy in the morning, and then, if in the afternoon I was playing him older, they would mess with proportions – the collars would become bigger or they would use slightly oversized wheelchairs. »