Eddie Redmayne reveals why he kept his 'distance' from Taylor Swift during Les Miserables screen test

Eddie Redmayne opened up astir an awkward infinitesimal during his and Taylor Swift's surface trial for Les Miserables.

The Golden Globe winner, 42 — who precocious looked dashing astatine the premiere of his upcoming series — admitted helium ate thing anterior to their 2011 audition that made him privation to 'keep a distance' from the Mirrorball hitmaker.

At the time, helium was already formed as Marius and she was auditioning for the relation of Eponine and called their associated surface trial an 'amazing experience.'

He recalled: 'I'll ne'er hide it due to the fact that firstly, I hadn't met [Taylor] and she had been taken into beryllium benignant of made to look similar Eponine, who is this thoroughfare urchin. So you're gathering 1 of the astir glamorous women successful the satellite and she arrives with mud successful her teeth and looks similar a thoroughfare urchin

'The manager had america connected the level and we were singing this emotion duet to each other. I hadn't realized it was going to beryllium rather truthful intimate. I had conscionable been to a pizza edifice and had shoveled rather a spot of ail breadstuff into my rima truthful I retrieve they were wanting chemistry and I was trying to play chemistry with Taylor portion keeping a distance.'

However, the relation wasn't meant to beryllium for the starlet — who precocious resumed her Eras Tour successful Miami — arsenic it ended up going to breakout actress Samantha Barks.

The deed movie is acceptable successful 19th period France and tells the communicative of erstwhile captive Jean Valjean, who breaks parole and is pursued by his nemesis and erstwhile defender Javert earlier seeking atonement.

In 2022, Swift called her surface trial with the Tony award-winning histrion a 'nightmare' during an interrogation with The Graham Norton Show.

She explained that she was successful the moving for the roles of Cozzette — which went to Amanda Seyfried— and Eponine but had a hard clip being placed arsenic 1 acceptable quality due to the fact that of her vocal scope and appearance.

The blonde quality recalled: 'I'd done a fewer auditions and gone to New York and immoderate and I deliberation it had been established that I had much of the look for Cozzette but I had the scope vocally for Eponine. It was established that I was determination for a bully clip not a agelong time.'

She had been invited by casting directors to London for the surface trial with Redmayne but upon her accomplishment happening went downhill.

Swift confirmed she had her teeth painted brownish and acheronian circles drawn underneath her eyes to evoke the character's 'near-death' look anterior to gathering up with the crew. 

'I was similar 'This has instantly go a nightmare for me,'' she admitted. 

Lucky, she said Redmayne was 'nice' to her contempt gathering for the archetypal clip portion donning the unappealing makeup. 

Upon its 2012 release, Les Miserables grossed $149.3 cardinal successful the United States and Canada and totaled $293,489,539 globally. 

With its $61M budget, the philharmonic movie won 3 academy awards and received assorted different honors. 

Taylor Swift is presently connected the past limb of her Eras Tour with it scheduled to extremity connected December 8, 2024 successful Vancouver, British Columbia.