Mr S’s colleague Tanya Gold writes in this week’s issue of The Spectator, that Eddie Redmayne is ‘very good’ in The Theory of Everything even if the Stephen Hawking biopic fails to mention that the physicist was ‘a very bad husband indeed’.
Script issues aside, the judges at the Golden Globes were also won over by Redmayne’s performance, awarding the Old Etonian the gong for Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama).
In his acceptance speech, Redmayne found time to praise both Hawking and the physicist’s former wife Jane, on whose memoir the film is loosely based. ‘Stephen, Jane, Jonathan and the Hawking family allowed us into their lives and entrusted us with their story,’ he said. ‘Getting to spend time with Stephen Hawking, who despite all of the obstacles put in his way has lived passionately and fully and with great humour, was one of the great honours of my life.’
Redmayne’s win meant his fellow nominee Benedict Cumberbatch was left empty-handed for his performance as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game.
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