Eddie Redmayne Shows Off His German Language Skills

ODE

Eddie Redmayne says he’s trading “wands for guns” in his latest TV series ‘The Day of the Jackal’ which launches on Sky Atlantic and Now on 7th November. He plays the ruthless British assassin known as the Jackal, opposite the likes of Lashana Lynch, Úrsula Corberó, Richard Dormer and Charles Dance.     Eddie says he manifested this role while starring in the stage show of 'Cabaret' and also shows off his very specific German language skills which he picked up while shooting ‘The Day of the Jackal’.    The TV show is a modern retelling of Frederick Forsyth’s novel of the same name.  Report by Burtonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

Transcript

00:00Eddie, thank you so much for your time, I appreciate you.

00:03I am so fascinated watching you in this,

00:05because I imagine this was bookended

00:06by two outstanding performers in cabaret.

00:09Well, it was, thank you for saying outstanding,

00:11but it was, it was quite extreme.

00:13Was there any strange crossover in terms of like,

00:15right, I have to turn off MC

00:16and now I have to get into jackal mode,

00:18was there any crossover which was difficult

00:19to shake at any point?

00:20Do you know what was weird,

00:21is when I was doing cabaret in London,

00:24the most extraordinary people would come to see it every night

00:26and I would get to meet kind of politicians,

00:30members of the family, celebrities,

00:34and in quite sort of intimate circumstances.

00:37At the time I was thinking, you know,

00:40would it be interesting to write a television series

00:41about a kind of actor, a theatre actor,

00:44who has all this sort of access

00:46to all these extraordinary people,

00:48but who's actually a spy, and changes the way he looks,

00:51and then this script arrived in my inbox.

00:53And so I don't know, you hear the word like manifesting stuff

00:56but I don't know, I feel like I may have sort of,

00:58this is my manifestation of that.

01:00That's quite wonderful.

01:01I don't think I've ever seen you in a role

01:02like you play in Jackal, in Day of the Jackal, sorry.

01:04And please tell me if there's anything which you performed,

01:07which you had to do for this role,

01:09which we've never have seen from you before,

01:10because I think there's probably a lot.

01:12There's quite a bit.

01:13I mean, principally acting in different languages,

01:17which I had never done before,

01:20and I don't speak a word of German,

01:21and a good chunk of the first episode

01:23was me speaking in German,

01:27and Spanish as well,

01:28which I had Ursula to kind of help me a bit on.

01:31And I love that side of things.

01:33It somehow took you out of your head and was quite freeing,

01:35but I haven't done it, I haven't done wands,

01:37I haven't done guns before really,

01:39so that was pretty joyful too.

01:41This is your chance to flex.

01:42How's your German and your Spanish these days?

01:44Pretty wonderful, I mean,

01:46I did not speak a word of German then, and I don't now,

01:49but I can say some very specific lines.

01:53But then he's also playing a kind of 75-year-old janitor,

01:57so you have to kind of try and,

02:00as if you've been smoking 20 a day for...

02:02Thank you for this one-man show, it's so incredible.

02:03And finally for me,

02:04obviously we see you in a very dangerous killer role here.

02:07Is this giving you the bug?

02:09Do you want to do more dangerous roles,

02:10more assassin roles perhaps?

02:12I'm quite into an assassin role, I'm not going to lie.

02:14Yeah, I enjoy them.

02:15So powerful.

02:16Yeah, go on then.

02:17Do you want to do more dangerous roles,

02:18more assassin roles perhaps?

02:19I'm quite into an assassin role, I'm not going to lie.

02:21Yeah, I enjoy them.

02:22Yeah, go on then.

Category

Transcript

Recommended