The
actor
plays
physicist
Stephen
Hawking
in
the
biopic,
but
struggled
with
his
first
day
filming
as
he
had
to
shoot
several
scenes
at
different
stages
of
the
professor's
battle
with
motor
neurone
disease,.
Speaking
to
Mr.
Porter
magazine,
he
said:
"The
first
scene
was
at
the
start
of
the
film,
pre-diagnosis.
The
second
was
when
Stephen
was
using
two
walking
sticks.
By
the
third,
he
was
in
his
second
wheelchair.
I
was
terrified.
It
was
like
I'd
been
asked
to
write
a
sentence
in
permanent
ink
starting
with
one
word
at
the
beginning,
one
at
the
middle
and
one
at
the
end."
Redmayne
added:
"I
was
having
a
complete
meltdown
-
it
was
four
in
the
morning,
I
was
getting
picked
up
at
five,
and
I
hadn't
slept.
I
was
thinking,
'I
can't
start
a
job
like
this'."
Redmayne
even
had
to
take
some
time
off
after
shooting
wrapped
up
to
"remember"
who
he
was
again.
"After
inhabiting
so
many
different
personae,
both
mentally
and
physically,
I
suppose
I
needed
to
take
some
time
off
just
to
remember
who
I
am,"
the
actor
revealed.
Eddie
is
garnering
a
lot
of
Oscar
buzz
for
his
performance
as
Hawking
in
The
Theory
of
Everything.
He
even
got
Golden
Globe
nomination
for
Best
Actor
and
is
creating
Oscar
buzz
as
well.