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| Stephen and Jane, left; Redmayne and Felicity Jones Liam Daniel; Theory of Everything |
Playing a real-life character who's still around to see your portrayal must be hard enough. Imagine how one would prepare to play one of the most intelligent, influential, and well-known personages of our time. Imagine, too, that that individual has a degenerative disease that slowly reduces him to living in a motorized wheelchair and communicating with a mechanized voice. Actor Eddie Redmayne's university friend, who happens to be a writer, followed him around as he meets the man he'll be portraying on screen and prepares for his role in the Stephen Hawking biopic
The Theory of Everything: http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/features/clemency-burton-hill/method
It was ten years from the time screenwriter and producer Anthony McCarten read Jane Hawking's memoir about her life with the famous astronomer to the screening of his film based on it:
http://deadline.com/2014/10/stephen-hawking-film-theory-of-everything-anthony-mccarten-857626/
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