2 November 2024
Eddie Redmayne is "more critical of [his] own work than most critics".
Eddie Redmayne reads reviews of his work
The 42-year-old actor has enjoyed huge success on stage and screen, but Eddie is still conscious of what critics are saying about him.
Asked if he reads his own reviews, Eddie told The Independent: "Oh, yeah, absolutely.
"TV and film, though, often it’s so long since you did the thing that there’s a level of detachment from it. But the interesting thing about them is that I’d say most actors are harsher critics of themselves than any critic can be.
"It’s rare that I’m sitting reading a bad review of one of my performances, going, ‘No! They got it wrong!’ I typically sit there going, ‘Oh, yeah, I saw that too.’"
Asked if his approach is actually healthy, the London-born star replied: "Oh, none of it’s healthy!
"The whole industry is deeply unhealthy. It’s a horrendous job to do for health reasons."
Eddie admits to being very critical of his own work. But the actor still considers all of his acting-related stresses to be worthwhile.
The Hollywood star - who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in 'The Theory of Everything' - said: "I’m certainly more critical of my own work than most critics, I would say. So the reason I do this job is to aspire to those glimmers of something that momentarily feels real.
"It sounds f****** pretentious, but there are those moments, and sometimes they last for under a second, where you’re completely free, and you’re playing against someone, and everything is alive, and momentarily you go somewhere else."
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