Eddie Redmayne: ‘I won a prize for worst performance of the year’

Redmayne, dressed in a multicoloured jumper and wearing bright red spectacles, stops talking for an unnervingly long period of time.

It’s an unseasonably warm October day in London, and Eddie Redmayne is gazing out of the window.

He’d poke that bear again less than a year later, portraying a trans woman in the regrettable The Danish Girl.