Eddie Redmayne recalled a hilarious failed audition he had to play a Star Wars villain while appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
The Theory of Everything star, 42, touched down in Los Angeles this week to join the chat show host on Wednesday’s episode of the show.
During the interview, Eddie was asked about auditions he had done in the past where he didn’t get the role, and he revealed that he had once been seen playing a Star Wars “bad guy.”
But the actor said that for some big movies they don’t give you a script to audition, but instead give you lines from various other projects that give an idea of who the character is, in this case, Star Trek and Pride and Prejudice.
In an attempt to capture the essence of the supposed villain, Eddie recalled the failed audition, where he revealed that he attempted to play Mr. Darcy in the voice of Darth Vader.
Eddie Redmayne recalled a hilarious failed audition he had to play a Star Wars villain when he appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
The Theory of Everything star, 42, touched down in Los Angeles this week to join the chat show host on Wednesday’s episode of the show.
He told Jimmy: “I auditioned many years ago to act, and at the time they didn’t tell us what it was, the irritating thing about auditioning for those big movies is that they don’t let you read a script, you have no idea.” which is, I just knew it was for a Star Wars movie and that I was potentially playing a bad guy.
But they don’t give you the script. So they give you similar sides, like these script pages, and looking at them I realized they were a little bit Star Trek and a little bit Pride and Prejudice (laughs).’
“So I found myself going into this audition knowing I was auditioning to play a Star Wars villain and I did this, what I thought was a sort of Mr. Darcy/Elizabeth Bennett scene in my Darth Vader voice.”
The audience laughed as Eddie imitated his Mr Darcy voice as Darth Vader, before adding: “There was a wonderful casting director called Nina Gold, who has been very generous to me in the past.
“And I did about seven or eight takes of my weird, romantic, sci-fi, fucked-up dad voice, and finally she said, ‘Eddie… do you have anything else?’ and I said, “No.”
Then she said to me, “Do you want to go?” and I said, “I think I should.”
Laughing, Jimmy asked, “Do you think that when at the end of an audition they say, ‘You’ve got something else,’ you didn’t get the part?”
“Yes, that tends to be the case,” Eddie replied.
During the interview, Eddie was asked about auditions he had done in the past where he didn’t get the role, and he revealed that he had once been seen playing a Star Wars “bad guy.”
But the actor said that for some big movies they don’t give you a script to audition, but instead give you lines from other projects that give an idea of who the character is, in this case, Star Trek and Pride and Prejudice.
In an attempt to capture the essence of the supposed villain, Eddie recalled the failed audition, where he revealed that he attempted to play Mr. Darcy in the voice of Darth Vader.
Eddie completed the relaxed look with a pair of trainers, before donning a sharp suit for the talk show.
Earlier in the day, Eddie was seen arriving at the Jimmy Kimmel Live studio in Los Angeles ahead of filming.
He kept it casual in a gray t-shirt and skinny jeans, with a pair of sunglasses hanging around his neck.
Eddie completed the relaxed look with a pair of trainers, before donning a sharp suit for the talk show.
It comes after Eddie lifted the lid on starring in and getting involved in the production of thriller series, The Day of the Jackal.
Eddie and his co-star Lashana Lynch, 36, who plays Jackal and Bianca on the cat-and-mouse-style show, opened up to radio times about taking on the roles and how this updated version of the story compares to the original.
The upcoming political thriller follows the 1973 film of the same name and the second English-language adaptation of the 1971 book of the same name.
Reimagined in a contemporary political setting, The Day of the Jackal (2024) centers on an incomparable and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal who makes his living carrying out assassinations for the highest price.
However, the Jackal meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who begins tracking him in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in his wake.
Eddie and Lashana Lynch have lifted the lid on starring in and getting involved in the production of their new thriller series, The Day of the Jackal.
The actor and actress, 36, who plays Jackal and Bianca in the cat-and-mouse style show, spoke to Radio Times about taking on the roles.
Reimagined in a contemporary political setting, The Day of the Jackal (2024) centers on an incomparable and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal.
Also starring are Chukwudi Iwuji from Guardians of the Galaxy, Charles Dance from Game of Thrones and Ursula Corbero from Money Heist.
Eddie told the publication: “When I saw this in my inbox, it felt nice… You don’t want to mess with something as shiny as this, so I was a little hesitant.”
“What I love about the original structure, which Ronan has managed to preserve, is the strange idea that you have these two protagonists who are deeply morally compromised, making vicious decisions, and yet you are kind to both of them.”
He added that this new version makes it more difficult to determine who to support, since morality is “gray.”
“We all have that blurry territory within us in some way: that idea of the binary of good and evil doesn’t exist as much,” he explained.
Meanwhile, Lashana admitted that when she was approached to take on the role of Bianca, she asked to get involved in the production side as well.
The actress said she wanted to: “Protect the things that I knew I really wanted to discuss in the piece.”