Stephen Hawking is ‘very proud’ of Eddie Redmayne & his Oscar win

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Here are some assorted photos of Eddie Remayne and his wife Hannah Bagshawe at the Oscars, the Oscar parties and at LAX yesterday, leaving LA as soon as the Oscar festivities were over. Hannah hasn’t been on his arm for every LA event, and he’s said several times that she has a job and her own schedule, that she doesn’t drop everything to be his plus-one at every occasion. That’s a good thing, in my opinion. It makes Eddie seem like he went for a woman of substance, a woman who prioritizes her work and having a career.

As for Eddie’s amazing Oscar win, as I said on Oscar night, I was all for it, but there is currently some backlash and online muttering about it. I ended up watching Birdman and The Theory of Everything within a 24 hour period (thanks CB!) and I really thought that in a head-to-head race between Michael Keaton and Eddie, Eddie should win. Don’t get me wrong, Keaton’s performance was very good. He was actually the best part of the film, alongside Ed Norton. But I thought Birdman was such a stupid movie, mostly because the story annoyed me and the “unreliable narrator” crap made me roll my eyes. While TTOE didn’t break the mold with storytelling, Eddie’s performance as Stephen Hawking was incredible and remarkable. It was in the vein of Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot (a performance that won Day-Lewis his first Oscar too).

Throughout it all, Eddie had the blessing of the towering icon he was playing as well – Stephen Hawking liked the film and publicly complimented the film and Eddie personally (Hawking is said to have flirted with Felicity Jones too). After Eddie’s win, Hawking wrote this on his Facebook:

Congratulations to Eddie Redmayne for winning an ?#?Oscar? for playing me in The Theory of Everything Movie. Well done Eddie, I’m very proud of you. –SH

[From Hawking’s Facebook]

Aw.

As for what’s next for Eddie, he’s currently working on The Danish Girl, the true story of “Danish artists Einar Wegener and his wife Gerda.” Eddie stars with Alicia Vikander and… Amber Heard?

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