The young actor is getting typecast in period costume. But wethinks no one should protest too much. There's an Olivier here on the rise.
Matthew Strmiska
December 07, 2007
By Peter McQuaid
Eddie Redmayne, above, channels Mary Poppins at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
At the tender age of 25, Eddie Redmayne is becoming well acquainted with Elizabeth I. His first turn with the Virgin Queen was in 2005 in the television movie starring Helen Mirren. And this fall he took on the hapless role of a disgruntled Roman Catholic who attempts to assassinate the inimitable Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
Later this spring, he plays William Stafford, foster father to a toddler-aged Elizabeth who is briefly left abandoned after the execution of her mother, Anne Boleyn, in The Other Boleyn Girl.
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Cross, left, the Chateau Marmont, Hollywood.
Illustration by Fritz Drury, left.
Given her taut, muscular physique, penchant for sports, and recent soul-searching journey to India following the breakdown of her eight-year marriage, I figured Hilary Swank might actually welcome an invigorating morning yoga session as a way to ease into the “celebrity profile interview.” Always such a hoot.
Dustin Hoffman on The Graduate set, left, 1966.
Is it really in dreams that responsibilities actually begin? When young Max is sentenced to his room for acting like a wolf in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, an imaginary jungle ensconces him, his sophisticated fantasies grow primal, and a moment of childish catharsis is unleashed. Dreams breed alternate realities, we realize -the world around us isn’t nearly as lush compared to the one within our mind.
