He may be hotly-tipped for next year's best actor Oscar, but Eddie Redmayne has shared details of his "catastrophic" Star Wars and The Hobbit auditions.
The English actor, who plays Stephen Hawking in upcoming biopic The Theory of Everything, spoke about how his children dream was crushed when it was clear he would not be cast in new Star Wars film, The Force Awakens.
"My Star Wars audition was pretty catastrophically bad," he said during a recent Happy Sad Confused podcast. "There's this wonderful casting director called Nina Gold, who I absolutely love.
"I went in and did this scene and after seven times of trying to play a baddie [Gold] was like, 'Got anything else, Eddie?' I said, 'Okay, that's a childhood dream crushed'."
