It’s no secret that Eddie Redmayne and wife Hannah Bagshawe enjoy their time in Paris. They spent a “babymoon” there in 2016, just weeks before daughter Iris arrived. We learned this week, though, just how much they long to spend time there — or anywhere but London.
During an interview with four proprietors of his fan accounts (including this one), Eddie revealed how six years of making films close to home in London wasn’t his (or Hannah’s) idea and how that led him to make an interesting request of Jude Law. Another item of interest: Eddie says he’d happily go off to remote locales for the right project — and bring Hannah and the little ones along.
BespokeRedmayne: It sounded like the logistics of Early Man and the two Fantastic Beasts production schedules were both somewhat conducive to family life. Are you committed for now to staying close to home to do your work, or would the right project get you back to a long location shoot?
Eddie: Absolutely, and the hilarious thing, again, that may look like that’s something that was sort of chosen, but early on in my relationship with Hannah, I said, look, my life is, our life is going to involve a lot of traveling. You know, I was in Budapest for two years, I was in North Carolina, Louisiana, and now New York — it’s going to be a nomadic life. And Hannah, she loves that and is super up for that. Ever since then, every single film — like Les Mis, she was, “Are we going to Paris?” And I was, no. And Fantastic Beasts was set in New York, and she was, “Please, tell me…” and no, she can go to Watford (the Warner Bros. Studio location outside London). For the second Fantastic Beasts, when Jude (Law) got the part (of Albus Dumbledore), I emailed Jude saying, “Please, if you haven’t signed your contract, will you demand that they shoot at least some of it in Paris?” And we shot it all in Watford. And so the answer is: We’re really up for traveling, it’s that no one else is. BR: It sounds like you would take your family with you, then. Eddie: Yeah, I think so. That would be the plan, particularly when Iris is little and when the little one arrives. Yup.
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