Eddie Redmayne on Why It’s Important to Have Work/Life Balance As a Father of 2

Eddie Redmayne tries not to get too attached to his projects for the sake of his family.

On Thursday’s episode of “The Jennifer Hudson Show,” JHud asked the British actor — who won the 2014 Best Actor Oscar for portraying theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything” — if he is able to remove himself from the characters he portrays.

“Fortunately, playing a serial killer, I don’t,” he joked, referencing his role in the Netflix movie “The Good Nurse” in which he plays real-life convicted killer and former nurse Charles Edmund Cullen.

“That’s good to know. I just wanted to check,” fellow Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson responded.

However Eddie admitted that when he was younger he carried “the ashes of these characters” around with him.

These days, he said he is careful “not to bring too much home” as he and wife Hannah Bagshawe share two children: 6-year-old daughter Iris and 2-year-old boy Luke.

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Jennifer can relate After portraying Aretha Franklin in the 2021 biopic “Respect,” she found herself “smiling like Ms. Franklin” in pictures.

Eddie also said he chooses characters based on “instinct.” He explained that he knows to go for it when he has a feeling that makes him go, “Oh, I got to do this.”

“When you read a script, there’s a moment where you’re seeing the story in your imagination and then suddenly something happens when you picture yourself in it,” he said. “And normally, that coincides with the slight lurch feeling in your stomach.”

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“Normally the feeling of feeling sick means that’s how I choose,” he joked.

When Jenn asked if he is ever afraid of how he will approach his characters, Eddie responded, “Always.”

This prompted Jenn to admit that she “was terrified” of portraying Aretha.

“It was more so in the beginning [of the project],” she added. “When [I was] trying to process how [I’m] going to approach the character, enter the character.”

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