Last month, Melissa McCarthy became the latest actor to receive both Oscar and Razzie nominations in the same year for her work in Can You Ever Forgive Me? and The Happytime Murders, respectively. Winners of each category will receive a gilded raspberry trophy. 23, the 39th annual Golden Raspberry Awards (aka the Razzies) will acknowledge a range of talent, from actors to cinematographers, for their worst work of the year. 24, is yet another awards show that honors not the best performances of the year, but rather the worst. However, a day before the big ceremony on Sunday, Feb. “The Theory of Everything” opens November 7.With the 91st annual Academy Awards quickly approaching, this year's nominated actors and actresses hope to walk away with a golden statuette in hand. But the second that Felicity walked in, I became invisible.” He sort of just looked at me and then was warm and wonderful. I hate silence, so when I met him I just basically vomited forth information about Stephen Hawking to Stephen Hawking. By this point I had spent months researching him. “When I was lucky enough to meet Stephen, I had an hour to myself with him,” Redmayne recounted. As Marsh’s film makes very clear, Hawking is a ladies’ man (despite his affliction, his automatic systems aren’t affected) - a fact Redmayne was more than happy to address. “The Theory of Everything” is light on science and heavy on romance by tracking the complicated relationship with Hawking’s first wife, Jane Wilde ( Felicity Jones), who Hawking leaves over the course of the film for his nurse, whom he later married. The talk wasn’t all grandstanding however. “It was like training for a marathon,” he said of the experience, which prompted a woman at my table to mutter, “Wow.” In “ The Theory of Everything,” directed by Oscar-winner James Marsh (“Man On a Wire,” “Project Nim”), the actor undergoes a startling physical transformation to play renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who suffers from a debilitating motor neuron disease that renders him speechless. Redmayne revealed in a post-lunch discussion, moderated by “The Hours” director Stephen Daldry, that he took a whopping four months to prep physically for the performance by meeting with ALS specialists and working with a dancer. Thankfully for Redmayne, he also has a great performance to tout. After learning that I pursued acting before becoming a journalist, Redmayne recounted the time he flubbed his audition for the role of Bilbo Baggins in “The Hobbit” trilogy by putting on an affected voice and a bad experience as a waiter at the British equivalent of the Daytime Emmy Awards. Shortly after sitting down at The Lotos Club in the Upper East Side, a beaming Redmayne launched into conversation, professing his admiration for Indiewire (no joke), telling me that he was “gagging” to see “Interstellar” and “Birdman,” and that he loved “99 Homes,” which stars his “best friend” Andrew Garfield. The “Theory of Everything” star was in his element at Tuesday’s posh luncheon for the Focus Features’ Oscar hopeful, wining and dining with the Academy and charming members of the press (myself included). For up-and-coming British actor Eddie Redmayne, that clearly isn’t the case. Just ask Michael Fassbender or Mo’Nique, both of whom famously opted out of schmoozing their way to the Academy Awards (they earned nominations regardless for “12 Years a Slave” and “Precious,” respectively - Mo’Nique even won). Campaigning for a little golden statue during film awards season isn’t for every actor.
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