Taylor Swift Reveals She Did A ‘Nightmare’ ‘Les Miserables’ Screen Test With Eddie Redmayne

Taylor Swift revealed that she did a surface trial with Eddie Redmayne for Les Miserables! The singer, 32, didn’t marque the chopped unfortunately, arsenic the audition rapidly turned to a “nightmare” experience. “Basically, I was up for 2 roles,” the Midnights singer said connected the Oct. 28 occurrence episode of The Graham Norton Show, which besides included Eddie. “I had the look of Cosette and the scope vocally of Éponine, truthful it was established I was determination for a bully time, but not for a agelong time. I wasn’t going to get the role,” she explained.

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Notably, Cosette yet went to Amanda Seyfried and Éponine was played by Samantha Barks successful the 2012 movie adaptation directed by Tom Hooper. “But they asked if I would similar to spell to London to bash a surface trial with Eddie, who is 1 of my favourite actors, and I thought, ‘This isn’t an acquisition I americium going to get again successful my life,’ truthful I said yes,” she went on. When she arrived to the set, however, she was enactment successful “full 19th-century thoroughfare urchin costume” that included brownish teeth. “I was like, ‘You are going to bash that aft I conscionable Eddie Redmayne, right?’…But no, they made maine look similar decease and it became a nightmare. When I met Eddie I didn’t unfastened my rima to speak,” she recalled.

Taylor Swift is seen astatine TIFF earlier this year. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

It turns retired the nerves weren’t conscionable connected Taylor’s end, who was lone 22 astatine the time. Eddie, present 40, recalled helium felt uncomfortable singing alongside Taylor and embracing astatine the aforesaid time, fixed they hadn’t met before. “I thought we would conscionable beryllium singing disconnected each different — I didn’t cognize we would beryllium successful each other’s arms,” the Oscar victor added. “My overriding representation of it is that I had had pizza and ail dough balls beforehand, and each I could deliberation astir was my ail enactment portion Taylor was dying successful my arms and I was trying to amusement emotion,” helium hilariously said.

Eddie Redmayne astatine the premiere of his movie ‘The Good Nurse.’ (Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock)

The film, based connected the French caller by Victor Hugo, went onto triumph 3 Oscars astatine the 2013 Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actress for Anne Hathaway who played Fantine, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling. It was besides nominated successful Best Picture, however, Ben Affleck‘s Argo took the apical motion that year. Despite not making the cut, 2012 was important for Taylor arsenic she dropped 1 of her career-defining albums that year: Red, which she re-recorded past twelvemonth successful a caller variation dubbed Taylor’s Version. During the archetypal run, she continued releasing euphony into 2013 — hitting the roadworthy for a monolithic satellite circuit opening that Spring.

Taylor aboriginal went connected to enactment with manager Tom Hooper successful the panned 2019 film Cats, successful which she played Bombalurina. The Pennsylvania autochthonal besides leant her endowment to the soundtrack with the way “Beautiful Ghosts.”