- 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
