How did you process that?
With the movie, you spent two hours with this incredibly charismatic but complete enigma.
Hes so opaque that you dont know anything about him.
And the constant wrong footing is also something that intrigues me.
One of the things thats curious is thatyou learn more about him by the people he interacts with.
Do you feel like he even fully remembers who he is anymore, by this point?
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REDMAYNE: I think theres a bit of sociopathy in him.
I spent some time doing sniper training.
What does it take to be that person?
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That was one of the massive questions that drove me.
Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch star as an assassin and a spy locked in a cat-and-mouse game.
REDMAYNE: There were so many things.
I dont speak a word of German or a word of Spanish.
This brilliant woman who was my language and dialect coach taught me musically to repeat it.
I had no knowledge of the language itself.
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The riding was hilarious because they had me out in Budapest.
Did you discuss that dynamic with Lashana Lynch, at all?
Do you just have to have trust in each other?
What was it like to figure out such an important relationship when you dont get to directly interact?
It was like two films that were made independently.
What I found riveting about that was that it reflects the dynamic of the piece.
Lashana and I, on a producorial level, are both similarly granular and were both very driven people.
There was a lot of mirroring going on, which was wonderful.
Those moments we were on set were hilarious because it was like seeing a long-lost friend.
Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch star in the celebrated thriller.
What did you think of that moment?
I would imagine that you probably didnt shoot it the same way we actually see it.
REDMAYNE: We actually really did.
It was this idea of these two people having a moment of confrontation.
The way the shot was designed, our brilliant D.P.
lit it beautifully and they have a moment in which one scrutinizes the other without the other seeing.
The shot was designed to be played for real.
The tension in the room as we shot that was electric.
Theres a symbiosis in some ways because they are two sides of the same coin.
Was it ever shocking for you to see yourself like that?
Could you still see yourself in all of that?
He started by coming and scanning my head and creating this polystyrene sculpture of me.
He would send me images and photographs and projections of what the character could look like.
The series also stars Lashana Lynch.
I think they were pretty freaked out by that.
That should be added to the list of reasons you dont want your parents to be actors.
Youll need years of therapy ahead.
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