2012's 'Les Miserables' solid might have regarded very totally different, as Taylor Swift revealed she was up for not only one however two roles!
Taylor Swift revealed that she did a display check with Eddie Redmayne for Les Miserables! The singer, 32, didn’t make the minimize sadly, because the audition shortly turned to a “nightmare” expertise. “Mainly, I used to be up for 2 roles,” the Midnights singer stated on the Oct. 28 episode episode of The Graham Norton Present, which additionally included Eddie. “I had the look of Cosette and the vary vocally of Éponine, so it was established I used to be there for time, however not for a very long time. I wasn’t going to get the function,” 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. “However they requested if I wish to go to London to do a display check with Eddie, who's one in every of my favourite actors, and I assumed, ‘This isn’t an expertise I'm going to get once more in my life,’ so I stated sure,” she went on. When she arrived to the set, nonetheless, she was put in “full Nineteenth-century road urchin costume” that included brown enamel. “I used to be like, ‘You're going to try this after I meet Eddie Redmayne, proper?’…However no, they made me appear like dying and it turned a nightmare. After I met Eddie I didn’t open my mouth to talk,” 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 similar time, given they hadn’t met earlier than. “I assumed we'd simply be singing off one another — I didn’t know we'd be in one another’s arms,” the Oscar winner added. “My overriding reminiscence of it's that I had had pizza and garlic dough balls beforehand, and all I might take into consideration was my garlic breath whereas Taylor was dying in my arms and I used to be making an attempt to point out emotion,” he hilariously stated.
The movie, based mostly on the French novel by Victor Hugo, went onto win three Oscars on the 2013 Academy Awards together with Greatest Supporting Actress for Anne Hathaway who performed Fantine, Greatest Sound Mixing, and Greatest Make-up and Hairstyling. It was additionally nominated in Greatest Image, nonetheless, Ben Affleck‘s Argo took the highest nod that yr. Regardless of not making the minimize, 2012 was vital for Taylor as she dropped one in every of her career-defining albums that yr: Crimson, which she re-recorded final yr in a brand new version dubbed Taylor’s Model. Through the authentic run, she continued releasing music into 2013 — hitting the highway for an enormous world tour starting that Spring.
Taylor later went on to work with director Tom Hooper within the panned 2019 movie Cats, by which she performed Bombalurina. The Pennsylvania native additionally leant her expertise to the soundtrack with the observe “Stunning Ghosts.”