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Taylor Swift revealed that she did a display screen check with Eddie Redmayne for Les Miserables! The singer, 32, didn’t make the reduce sadly, because the audition rapidly turned to a “nightmare” expertise. “Basically, I was up for two roles,” the Midnights singer mentioned on the Oct. 28 episode episode of The Graham Norton Show, which additionally included Eddie. “I had the look of Cosette and the range vocally of Éponine, so it was established I was there for a good time, but not for a long time. I wasn’t going to get the role,” she defined.
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Notably, Cosette ultimately went to Amanda Seyfried and Éponine was performed by Samantha Barks within the 2012 movie adaptation directed by Tom Hooper. “But they asked if I would like to go to London to do a screen test with Eddie, who is one of my favorite actors, and I thought, ‘This isn’t an experience I am going to get again in my life,’ so I said yes,” she went on. When she arrived to the set, nevertheless, she was put in “full 19th-century street urchin costume” that included brown enamel. “I was like, ‘You are going to do that after I meet Eddie Redmayne, right?’…But no, they made me look like death and it became a nightmare. When I met Eddie I didn’t open my mouth to speak,” she recalled.
It seems the nerves weren’t simply on Taylor’s finish, who was solely 22 on the time. Eddie, now 40, recalled he felt uncomfortable singing alongside Taylor and embracing on the identical time, given they hadn’t met earlier than. “I thought we would just be singing off each other — I didn’t know we would be in each other’s arms,” the Oscar winner added. “My overriding memory of it is that I had had pizza and garlic dough balls beforehand, and all I could think about was my garlic breath while Taylor was dying in my arms and I was trying to show emotion,” he hilariously mentioned.
The movie, primarily based on the French novel by Victor Hugo, went onto win three Oscars on the 2013 Academy Awards together with Best Supporting Actress for Anne Hathaway who performed Fantine, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling. It was additionally nominated in Best Picture, nevertheless, Ben Affleck‘s Argo took the top nod that year. Despite not making the cut, 2012 was significant for Taylor as she dropped one of her career-defining albums that year: Red, which she re-recorded last year in a new edition dubbed Taylor’s Version. During the unique run, she continued releasing music into 2013 — hitting the street for an enormous world tour starting that Spring.
Taylor later went on to work with director Tom Hooper within the panned 2019 movie Cats, through which she performed Bombalurina. The Pennsylvania native additionally leant her expertise to the soundtrack with the monitor “Beautiful Ghosts.”