Eddie Redmayne was widely expected to get an Oscar nomination for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything and he got it. But he wasn’t awake when the nominations were announced at 5:30 a.m. in Los Angeles.
“I'm in bed!” Redmayne told USA Today. “Twenty minutes ago I was in a deep, dark sleep, and there was this gigantic knock on the door. I stumbled in the dark and put a towel on and my manager was there brandishing a telephone with a lot of screaming coming out of it.”
Redmayne, who got Hawking’s approval to play him in the film, has some tough competition, including Benedict Cumberbatch, who also plays a struggling British genius in The Imitation Game. The Sherlock star plays mathematician Alan Turing. Redmayne already beat Cumberbatch at the Golden Globes, but he didn’t have to face Birdman’s Michael Keaton, like he will have to at the Oscars.
Redmayne said that he’s got nothing but respect for Cumberbatch, who once played Hawking himself.
“We haven’t spoken, but we have texted,” Redmayne told Entertainment Weekly. “There was many an exclamation mark being used. We’ve come up together and Ben is a good friend, and such an amazing actor. Benedict is so extraordinary in Imitation Game. It is a genuine honor to be amongst that group of actors.”
Both The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game were also nominated for Best Picture. Redmayne’s co-star, Felicity Jones, was nominated for Best Actress.
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