Eddie Redmayne opted for a relaxed look as he had lunch with a friend in New York City on Friday.
The Good Nurse star, 42, wore a red print T-shirt and black skinny denim as he rocked a pair of retro shades.
The film actor completed his look with a black bag and a pair of white sneakers.
Meanwhile, his girlfriend – whose identity is unknown – wore a sea blue maxi dress with floral print and black shades for the outing.
The couple appeared cheerful as they went to Saint Ambroeus for their meal.
Eddie Redmayne opted for a relaxed look as he had lunch with a friend in New York City on Friday
The Good Nurse star, 42, wore a red print T-shirt and black skinny denim as he rocked a pair of retro shades
The duo appeared relaxed during the sunny day, as Eddie later ditched his sunglasses
The Hollywood sensation recently admitted that extreme exhaustion from anxiety ultimately won him the Oscar win for his portrayal of Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything – and not his acting talent.
The British actor wowed viewers and critics alike with his extraordinary performance as the celebrated theoretical physicist living with a rare form of ALS – a neurodegenerative disease that attacks nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
For the role, Eddie trained for months with zombie choreographer and movement director Alexandra Reynolds to accurately embody the scientist during various stages of the disease.
But despite the training, he claimed a lack of sleep due to nerves was to blame for his Oscar-winning performance ten years ago.
Speaking to an audience at 92Y in New York City earlier this month, he told host Josh Horowitz, “When I did The Theory Of Everything… the thing that scared me the most about that movie was portraying it authentically.
‘I spent months preparing it, but the way films work is that you obviously can’t film chronologically.
‘And especially during the first days of shooting, we had to film everything that was happening in Cambridge, because the students had not yet returned for the semester. So we had to shoot all the scenes that were outdoors.”
The star went on to explain how he had felt immense pressure prior to his first day on set, having to play the famous physicist at four different stages of his life: when he was a young man before the diagnosis, when the symptoms manifested he could no longer walk without a cane, when the disease ‘really took hold of him’ and he was confined to a wheelchair.
The Hollywood sensation recently admitted that extreme exhaustion from anxiety ultimately won him the Oscar win for his portrayal of Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything – and not his acting talent (pictured in 2015)
But the actor (pictured with Professor Hawking in 2014) said extreme exhaustion from anxiety was behind the win – and not just his acting skills.
I think the fatigue was so overwhelming,” Eddie said. “At the end of the day I had to do a full breakdown scene and I was so tired and so exhausted.”
Eddie pictured with his wife Hannah Bagshawe and his Oscar statuette at the Vanity Fair party in 2015
“Every time I feel the fear before shooting, it becomes so intense,” he recalls. ‘The night before the shoot it was four in the morning and I didn’t sleep. And I was picked up at six o’clock!
“I got there at five in the morning and thought, ‘Okay, I’m just not going to sleep.’ I took a bath, woke up and walked through the streets of Cambridge.’
He then recalled, “I think the fatigue was so overwhelming. At the end of the day I had to do a full breakdown scene and I was so tired and so exhausted.
“So when it came down to it, the director [James Marsh] poked me and I just fell apart… which is probably really helpful and might have gotten me an Oscar.”
Eddie’s Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar was one of several during the 2014 awards season, with the star taking home a BAFTA, Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his portrayal of Professor Hawking alongside Felicity Jones as his wife, Jane Wilde .
But perhaps the ultimate accolade came from the eminent scientist himself, who said: ‘I thought Eddie portrayed me very well. Sometimes I thought he was me. I think Eddie’s commitment will have a great emotional impact.”
Professor Hawking died in March 2018 at the age of 76.
Eddie paid tribute at the time, writing: ‘We have lost a truly beautiful mind, an amazing scientist and the funniest man I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. My love and thoughts are with his extraordinary family.”
The Danish Girl actor, who is married to Hannah Bagshawe, threw himself into training and research for the role and previously told The Guardian he visited the Queen Square Center for Neuromuscular Diseases in London to talk to ALS patients and their doctors .
He also treated the disease as if it were a dance, working closely with choreographer and movement specialist Reynolds, who created the famous zombie movement in World War Z (2013).
“I had to train my body like a dancer, but learned to shorten muscles instead of stretching them,” he told the publication.
In an interview with Nightline, he said, “I just had to train my body just to hold the positions.
“I knew some positions would be specific and contorted and not necessarily comfortable.”
The film focuses on the love story between Professor Hawking and first wife Jane, whom he met shortly before his devastating diagnosis when he was 21 – and given just two years to live.
Eddie is currently starring in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club on Broadway, following a transfer from London’s West End, alongside Gayle Rankin from The Greatest Showman.
The Danish Girl star said he was so tired on the first day of filming that the director poked him and he ‘fell apart’