HE’S one of the most successful actors around at the moment, but even Eddie Redmayne has off days.
The Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them star has revealed that he auditioned for the part of Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens two years ago, but it didn’t go quite how he’d hoped.
Speaking to Uproxx, the dad-of-one explained, “They gave me like a Star Trek scene — or like something from Pride and Prejudice. It was one of those films.
“With films that top secret, they don’t give you the actual lines. So they give you a scene from Pride and Prejudice, but then they tell you you’re auditioning for the baddie. If you’re me, you then put some ridiculous voice on.”
Despite describing it as “catastrophically bad,” Redmayne is still able to laugh about it.
“That was really a hilarious moment. Because it was Nina Gold, who I have to thank a lot because she’s cast me in several films. And she was just sitting there and I was trying again and again with different versions of my kind of ‘koohh paaaah’ [Darth Vader breathing sound] voice. And after like ten shots she’s like, ‘You got anything else?’ I was like, ‘No.'”
The part later went to Adam Driver, but it wasn’t all bad news for Eddie.
He was later hired for the upcoming Fantastic Beasts movie, which is the first of five to be made.
The Theory of Everything star plays Newt Scamander, a young wizard in 1920s New York, in the JK Rowling adaptation.
The film arrives in cinemas on November 18.