Eddie Redmayne is opening up about filming an audition for the Les Miserables movie alongside Taylor Swift!
The Oscar-winning actor played the role of Marius in the movie musical and he filmed a screen test alongside Taylor, who was auditioning for the role of Eponine. The part went to actress Samantha Barks, who was an unknown at the time.
During an interview on The View on Friday (October 18), Eddie revealed the awkward thing that happened while doing the audition with Taylor… which was all his own fault!
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“It was an amazing experience. It was for Les Miserables and I had been cast as Marius and Taylor was screen testing for the part of Eponine. I’ll never forget it because firstly, I hadn’t met [Taylor] and she had been taken into be sort of made to look like Eponine, who is this street urchin. So you’re meeting one of the most glamorous women in the world and she arrives with mud in her teeth and looks like a street urchin,” Eddie said.
He continued, “The director had us on the floor and we were singing this love duet to each other. I hadn’t realized it was going to be quite so intimate. I had just been to a pizza restaurant and had shoveled quite a bit of garlic bread into my mouth so I remember they were wanting chemistry and I was trying to play chemistry with Taylor while keeping a distance.”
Eddie is among the actors who almost landed a role in a very popular film series, but didn’t.
