Photographed by Brian Bowen Smith, ‘The Theory of Everything’ actor Eddie Redmayne appears in a new photo shoot for Gotham’s latest cover story. Redmayne chats with friend and fellow actor Andrew Garfield about his role as Stephen Hawking. Preparing for the role, Redmayne explains, “I said to James [Marsh, the director] I’d need time [to prepare], and he gave me four to five months. Hawking was diagnosed with ALS when he was 21. His disease is entirely secondary [to his life] as far as he’s concerned. Similarly, I wanted to make all the physical elements of the performance so embedded and second nature. Some of my favorite moments were improvised. The emotional lines of the film came from reading Jane and Stephen’s books, but also the patients that I met.” Read more at Gotham-Magazine.com.
