#EDDIE REDMAYNE OSCAR SERIAL#

'It was never a part I necessarily would've felt that I was born to play - America's most prolific serial killer,' Redmayne says with a laugh. But he's also made a career of embodying decent, stand-up blokes: The smitten assistant in My Week With Marilyn, the lovesick revolutionary in Les Misérables, the wizard with a soft spot for magical animals in the Fantastic Beast movies. Redmayne has played a number of real people before, including his Oscar-winning portrayal of physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything and Oscar-nominated turn as pioneering transgender artist Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl. Redmayne stars as the so-called 'angel of death' in director Tobias Lindholm's The Good Nurse, which tells the true story of how nurse Amy Loughren (played by Jessica Chastain) befriended Cullen when he started working at her hospital and ultimately helped bring him to justice, ending his killing spree. The role in question is Charlie Cullen, who is confirmed to have murdered 29 patients but believed to have killed as many as 400 over 16 years working as a nurse, mostly by dosing IV bags with lethal amounts of insulin and other drugs. 'It's when directors see something in me that they think perhaps I'm capable of that I wouldn't necessarily find in myself that I tend to do the most interesting work.' Interestingly, I tend to be less good at finding them myself,' he tells A.frame. 'You are always looking for parts of you that are unmined, that are untapped. Eddie Redmayne didn't set out to play a serial killer.

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