Eddie Redmayne chats to Stephen Hawking as he gets ready to play the physicist in Theory Of Everything

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By HANNA FLINT
PUBLISHED: 10:33 EST, 29 September 2013 | UPDATED: 10:33 EST, 29 September 2013

It was only a matter of time before an actor brought the life of Stephen Hawking played out on the big screen, and now in Theory Of Everything, Eddie Redmayne has that job.

But if playing one of the most brilliant physicists in the world wasn't pressure enough, Eddie, 31, had Stephen watching him film scenes in Cambridge, where Hawking, 71, studied and still resides as the Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the university.

But by the looks of things, Eddie's acting skills prevailed as the two were seen laughing together in between takes.

The film, directed by James Marsh, will focus on the point in Stephen's life when he met first wife Jane Wilde. She was a childhood friend of the scientist's younger sister Phillipa, and they embarked on a relationship shortly before he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, at the age of 21.

Felicity Jones of Chalet Girl and Like Crazy fame will play Jane, who married Stephen and had three children with between, even though at the time of his diagnosis, doctors only gave him two years to live.

In her book Music to Move the Stars: A Life With Stephen, Jane talks about the warning she received against her getting romantically involved with Hawking.

'I replied that I would prefer not to know the details of the prognosis,' she writes, 'because I loved Stephen so much that nothing could deter me from wanting to marry him.

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Felicity Jones Joins Eddie Redmayne In Stephen Hawking Pic ‘Theory Of Everything’ By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday June 21, 2013 @ 11:57am PDT (DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD)

 

EXCLUSIVE: Felicity Jones is set to star opposite Eddie Redmayne in Theory Of Everything for Working Title. I’m hearing that Universal Pictures has signed on for the project in which Redmayne plays physicist Stephen Hawking. The film is to be directed by James Marsh, who won the  Best Documentary Oscar for Man On Wire. Jones will play his wife, Jane. When they meet at Cambridge, he is able-bodied and she is an art student. They fall in love and even though he is given a death sentence with an ALS diagnosis that means two years to live, she makes the choice to marry him. The film focuses on the highs and lows of their life as he becomes more famous than most able-bodied men. At the same time, his confinement to a chair with a crippling disability has a profound impact on her. Anthony McCarten wrote the script. Lisa Bruce is producing with Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.


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Eddie Redmayne To Play Stephen Hawking In Working Title’s ‘Theory Of Everything’ By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 12, 2013 @ 6:20pm (DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD)

EXCLUSIVE: After crushing it on Les Miserables, Eddie Redmayne is being fought over for his next lead role. I heard that he’s going to land on Theory Of Everything, and that he’ll play physicist Stephen Hawking in the film that Working Title is fast assembling with director James Marsh, who shared the Best Documentary Oscar for Man On Wire. The film focus is on the relationship between Hawking and his wife and it marks a re-team of the actor and Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner from Les Miserables. They are actively discussing the female lead, with an early fall start being eyed. Redmayne has also been courted to star with Carey Mulligan and Matthias Schoenaerts in the Thomas Vinterberg-directed Far From The Madding Crowd, but I believe that his priority is the Hawking project written by Anthony McCarten.

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