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SSN Insider Screening Series: A Look Behind ‘The Theory Of Everything’ With Eddie Redmayne, Producer Lisa Bruce and Writer-Producer Anthony McCarten

January 28, 2015

Last night, SSN held a screening and Q&A, moderated by SSN’s Zorianna Kit, at the Landmark Theater, for James Marsh’s film The Theory Of Everything, which stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones. The movie has been nominated for five Oscars, including a Best Actor nod for Redmayne, who was in attendance, Best Adapted Screenplay for writer-producer Anthony McCarten, and Best Picture, for both McCarten and partner-in-crime Lisa Bruce. People had to be turned away from the packed theater, as audience members flocked to the show to get a glimpse of both the movie and Redmayne’s Golden Globe-winning performance.

When asked about the pressure of playing a living person who could judge him for his performance, Redmayne told the audience, “When I got the part, it was this absolutely euphoric moment, followed immediately for the next four months by total trepidation and fear.” He went on to relay a conversation he had with co-star Charlie Cox, who is also one of the actor’s best friends. “Charlie called me up after I got the part and said, ‘The great thing about this opportunity is that you have no option but to give it 1,000 percent. But fear drove a lot of it.”

Redmayne had pursued the part for months before he was cast, which is only ironic because it took McCarten years to obtain the rights to actually tell the Hawkings’ story. In 2004, McCarten read Jane Hawking’s memoir, Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, and had what he referred to as “a eureka moment.”

“I knew that for the first time in my life I had to become a stalker,” McCarten said, eliciting plenty of laughter. “I travelled up to her house and assessed my level of charm and felt that I could convince her to let me have the film rights in an afternoon. It took me eight years.”

In the meantime, McCarten wrote various drafts, but knew he couldn’t sell them to anyone without Jane’s approval. Eventually, that approval came, but once it did, no one actually wanted to finance it, as most saw it as just a TV movie. Enter Bruce, who shares an agent with McCarten and has more than a dozen features under her belt. The two had trouble getting anyone interested in bankrolling a movie about a scientist confined to a wheelchair until director James Marsh joined the project. Marsh was not far removed from winning an Oscar for his documentary Man On Wire, and his attachment landed experienced producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner at Working Title. Suddenly, they had their financing.

While Jones shines in the movie as Jane, a performance that has also earned her an Oscar nod for Best Actress, the physical workload fell primarily to Redmayne, who had to become something of a contortionist to portray Hawking at various points of his life and ravaged by the ALS that has confined him to a wheelchair for decades.

“After I was cast,” he explained, “I went to an ALS clinic in London and met a specialist there, and over the next few months was introduced to many people with ALS, and also their families, and they told me about not only the physical cost, but also the emotional.”

He worked with dancer Alex Reynolds, who helped him prepare his body for the rigors of the film shoot, and she recommended he work with an osteopath, who further helped the actor mimic the way the disease ravaged Hawking’s body. “There were moments in filming that were physically rigorous,” Redmayne explained, “but I also knew that at the end of the day, I could get out of the wheelchair, and so many others can’t, so I was constantly reminded how lucky I was.”

After a tough shoot that had to be filmed out of sequence and which sometimes forced Redmayne to play Hawking at three different stages of deterioration in a given day, the filmmakers were rewarded when they finally got the chance to show the film to Stephen, Jane, and their family, and everyone loved it. Hawking himself was incredibly emotional and in tears at the way the filmmakers had captured his and Jane’s story.

“It’s terrifying to meet Stephen,” Bruce told the audience. “He’s incredibly formidable. He has almost no movement, but he follows you with his eyes, and with that electronic voice, it’s very intimidating. It was a very important moment for us to show him the film and have this moment of judgment.”

Hawking was so impressed, in fact, that he even lent his own signature voice to the film. “It’s weird to think, but his voice is sort of patented with him,” Bruce continued. “It’s a different cadence, a different rhythm, and no one else really has it.”

Now, in the lead up to the Oscars, Redmayne is a co-favorite with Michael Keaton to win he Best Actor trophy, a race the overwhelming majority of the audience clearly thought he should win. But Redmayne is still so pleased that he has Hawking’s approval, everything else appears to be gravy. “This was an incredibly responsibility,” he said, “and since they all saw the film and were incredibly kind and generous about it, it’s been the most wonderful ride.”

(www.ssninsider.com)

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The Theory of Everything Producer Lisa Bruce Talks Upcoming Thriller The Hollow from Miles Doleac [Interview]

The Theory of Everything Producer Lisa Bruce Talks Upcoming Thriller The Hollow from Miles Doleac [Interview]

[Exclusive] I had the chance to speak with Academy Award nominated movie producer Lisa Bruce (The Theory of Everything) about the upcoming 2016 thriller The Hollow from director/star Miles Doleac.

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  Believe us when the leaves start to change and the air gets colder there is nothing better than a good mystery thriller. From filmmaker Miles Doleac and award winning producer Lisa Bruce comes the whodunnit killer THE HOLLOW. The film follows an F.B.I. agent heading into the rural area of Mississippi to investigate a triple homicide. THE HOLLOW is set to release early in 2016 so be on the lookout for more details on the film soon. For now enjoy the plot and some stills from the film.

The first stills from one of the most anticipated new movies of 2016, The Hollow, have been released.

Stills from THE HOLLOW

Stills from THE HOLLOW

Stills from THE HOLLOW

Stills from THE HOLLOW

From Acclaimed filmmaker Miles Doleac and Academy Award Winning producer Lisa Bruce (The Theory of Everything), The Hollow fixes on a team of F.B.I. agents as they arrive in a small town in Mississippi to investigate the death of a U.S. congressman’s daughter in a mysterious triple homicide.

The ensemble cast includes James Callis (TV’s Battlestar Galactica, TV’s Eureka), William Sadler (TV’s Hawaii Five-0, Machete Kills), William Forsythe (TV’s Boardwalk Empire, Halloween) and Jeff Fahey (TV’s Lost, TV’s From Dusk Till Dawn : The Series).

  The Hollow will be released 2016.

  First images from mystery thriller ‘The Hollow’ Believe us when the leaves start to change and the air gets colder there is nothing better than a good mystery thriller.

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The Theory of Everything - Q&A with producer Lisa Bruce and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Anthony McCarten

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The Contenders At The Hammer Museum Los Angeles Screening And Q&A Of "The Theory Of Everything"

(L-R) Producer Lisa Bruce, screenwriter and producer Anthony McCarten, actor Eddie Redmayne, actress Felicity Jones, director James Marsh and MoMA Chief Curator of Film Rajendra Roy attend The Contenders Screening and Q&A of 'The Theory of Everything' at Billy Wilder Theater at The Hammer Museum on January 7, 2015 in Westwood, California. (Photo by David Buchan/Getty Images)