Eddie Redmayne: Skin off his back

Eddie Redmayne says one has to be 'skinless' to be a sensitive actor

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Eddie Redmayne admits he is as neurotic as the next actor - the years of getting rejected for roles mean there is always a voice in his head telling him he may never work again.

And this despite a career most would kill for. There was his Academy Award-winning turn as the physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything (2014); his Oscar-nominated performance in the biopic The Danish Girl (2015); and his lead role in the Fantastic Beasts films, which are poised to become a mega franchise.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on November 15, 2018, with the headline Eddie Redmayne: Skin off his back. Subscribe