- Eddie Redmayne, I have a question.
So last time you were here,
we were talking "Fantastic Beasts."
- [Eddie Redmayne] We were.
- And now we're talking "Aeronauts,"
so what was the most interesting part of that research,
'cause I mean honestly when I watched it I was like,
"What the (beep) is an aeronaut?"
(laughing)
- I know.
That's kind of a great name.
- It's amazing it's like an astronaut--
- I feel like it's a band.
- Yeah like aeronaut. - Maybe there is a band.
(laughing)
- The aeronauts band.
I've always found a
But the idea of going up into the sky
at a time in which that was not known,
was so brave to me and reading the stories
about these early aeronauts, they were kind of dumbfounding.
And when I read the script,
there was this moment in the film,
which I don't wanna give away,
in which Felicity's character's
literally standing on top of the world
and I read that passage and I was like,
- Have you been up in a hot air balloon.
- Yeah, so they built a gas air balloon for this film
and on day one Felicity and I went up in it
and she was astoundingly brave
and was jumping up into the hoop,
doing all these stunts herself.
And it was really peaceful.
Have you noticed it's completely silent?
(woman screaming)
- [Eddie Redmayne] And we were loving the experience.
We were having a very quiet time
until we basically had the most horrendous crash landing
and this was on our day one of filming.
(laughing)
- I didn't know that's amazing.
- And yeah it was kinda brutal,
but there was some quite fierce moments in the film,
so we took it as like being our method acting attempt
- Yeah how do you get over those moments on set
when you genuinely do feel fear?
- Do you know what's weird is normally
and then you think of all those featurettes
of like Tom Cruise learning like how to fly his own like...
- Do his own stunts. - Stunts.
And you kinda say,
"Come on,
But as I say, to be fair,
Felicity had the fair share of stunts in this film.
(screaming)
- Are you someone who likes to try
and do your own stunts when you're on set?
- I do, I love it and ultimately what happens with stunts
is you spend like months practicing and training
and then normally on the day the director decides
they want something different, so ultimately,
however much you practiced it, it comes to a moment
where you just have to kind of
- Take my hand.
- Are you able to watch your own movies back?
- I watch it a lot in the process of editing,
while you can still do something to change it.
The second it's -
- So even when you're on a plane
you can't just sit and watch on of your movies?
- Absolutely not. - No?
- How horrendous.
Can you imagine like some one walking down a plane,
- Do you cry on the plane when you're watching movies?
- I can't quite believe that you're asking me that question
because to admit it
(laughing)
I may have cried watching "Crazy Rich Asians."
But I don't know whether it was the fact
that I was leaving my family for a while,
I have two young children,
whether it was because I was on a plane.
Whether it was because I hadn't slept for a while.
- It was a joyful film, when was it sad?
- It's a joyful film.
At the end I was crying with joy.
I was crying with joy.
- [Rachel] If Nick chose me, he would lose his family
and if he chose his family...
(gentle music)
- When do you feel most comfortable on set?
- I feel most comfortable when I'm surrounded by a group
of people that I love and admire.
And I'm working on a film literally as we speak,
which Aaron Sorkin has written and is directing,
with this amazing ensemble of actors
and I get to sit around with them all day
and kind of watch them work and just hang out with them
and hear anecdotes about their lives.
- And what do you do
when you have a set that's a little challenging?
You know, someone that works in meds or in banking,
I don't have the capacity to know
how good they are at their job,
whereas anyone can watch a film or an actor
So the thing with actors is that they tend to be,
quite sort of,
neurotic, vulnerable people
because anyone can criticize them and judge them.
So you do see that on set so often.
You see actors and different people in life generally
have ways of hiding that or compensating for that
and some people do it with massive egos,
some people do it by being rude,
some people do it by being lovely.
So you kind of watch all these people
trying their different techniques
and you try and learn from them and try not to be a prick.
- So how do kind of get over those moments
of self doubt and how do you silence your own inner critic?
And so that's interesting
because you deal with other people's criticisms by going,
"oh no no no no, nothing you can say is worse
than what I feel about my own work."
But what you do is you are aware
that there are little moments occasionally with acting,
and this the kind of fiction of it
where something feels real,
when you're working with someone who is an actor,
you know them, they're your friend,
they're not the person they're playing,
but something happens in a millisecond
that is slightly raised, heightened,
and those moments are so fleeting and far between,
but there is a
that kicks through that is so compelling and so exciting
and that is the moment where you kind of realize