The Theory of Everything Director: James Marsh Running time: 123 minutes Certificate: G In an Oscar-winning turn, Eddie Redmayne plays physicist Stephen Hawking, whose relationship with wife (Felicity Jones) is tested by his motor neurone disease.
The Theory of Everything Director: James Marsh Running time: 123 minutes Certificate: 12A In an Oscar-winning turn, Eddie Redmayne plays physicist Stephen Hawking, whose relationship with wife (Felicity Jones) is tested by his motor neurone disease.
Describing Jones' work as "astounding", Hawking said: "I thought, 'How can I be on the screen and in a cinema seat at the same time?'" After giving such a polished performance playing the physicist's wife opposite Eddie Redmayne, Jones was nominated for Best Actress at Sunday night's Oscars, but lost to Julianne Moore for her performance in Still Alice.
In the 1990s, he led the collaboration that created "QED," a play about the brilliant, irascible, bongo-playing physicist Richard Feynman, with Mr. Alda playing Dr. Feynman.
Just as movie directors have beautiful young actresses playing nuclear physicists and Harvard professors, knowing the fusion of sex appeal and a heavyweight profession will excite, the novelty of a beautiful former beauty queen and TV reporter cast in a powerful role that has featured dour, gray old men like Dick Cheney was thrilling.
His next starring role is in Danny Boyle's much anticipated science-fiction film, Sunshine, where he plays a physicist on a mission to firebomb the sun.
Two of the film's stars, Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, peppered him with technical questions to help them prepare for their roles; Michael Caine, who plays a physicist, grew a beard to look more like Thorne.
In Particulars, you play a physicist who finds herself transformed into a down quark, which is a change from the traditional shaved-head/big muscles/space marine combination that you normally find in player characters.
Anchored by Cage who plays quantum physicist John Koestler, supported by Byrne and young actor Canterbury, the cast brings to life these characters reacting to the extreme circumstances of the film.
"I was unbelievably cocky and had nothing to lose, and it suited the part, I suppose". "Trainspotting" director Boyle cast the then unknown as the lead in "28 Days Later" and has hired him again to play a physicist who saves the world in the upcoming sci-fi film "Sunshine". "He's really come on a lot" since they first worked together, Boyle says.
She's playing a quantum physicist.
