When the Oscar nominations were announced earlier this month, Eddie Redmayne was in Los Angeles while his new wife of only about two weeks Hannah Bagshawe was 6,000 miles away in London.
After Redmayne's name was called for his work as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, the couple had a nice time screaming with joy over the phone.
But now we're happy to report they eventually celebrated in person. "I got to go home and we had a wonderful dinner and we drank a lot of champagne," the actor told me at the Producers Guild Awards. "It was a good night."
We can only imagine.
Now, Bagshawe just needs to find a dress for the Oscars. "I don't think she's tried any on," Redmayne said. "But we're both excited, what a privilege." (The Oscars will be handed out on Feb. 22 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood during a live telecast on ABC.)
When he's not hitting the red carpet these days, Redmayne is not only working on home plumbing problems, but he's starting work on The Danish Girl, his Les Miserables director Tom Hooper's big screen adaptation of David Ebershoff's award-winning semi-fictional book of the same name.
Redmayne stars as the first transgender woman to have had gender reassignment surgery in the 1930s. The cast also includes The Fifth Estate's Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard and Matthews Shoenarts.
They just spent a week rehearsing together in London. "It was a really fun week," Redmayne said. "We're starting shooting in about two weeks time."
He had previously told me about the research he's undertaken for the work. "There are many people who have written Ph.D's on Lili's story," Redmayne said. "Even though it is period and under completely different circumstances than today, I'm meeting many women from the trans community and hearing their experiences."
This includes trans women who transitioned back in the 1950s and 1960s.