Eddie Redmayne opted for a laid back look as he grabbed lunch with a female friend in New York City on Friday.
The Good Nurse star, 42, sported a red print T-shirt and black skinny denim, while rocking a pair of retro shades.
The film actor completed his look with a black bag and a pair of white trainers.
Meanwhile his female friend – whose identity is unknown – donned a sea blue floral print maxi dress and black shades for the outing.
The pair appeared in good spirits as they headed to Saint Ambroeus for their meal.
Eddie Redmayne opted for a laid back look as he grabbed lunch with a female friend in New York City on Friday
The Good Nurse star, 42, sported a red print T-shirt and black skinny denim, while rocking a pair of retro shades
The duo appeared relaxed during the sunny day, as Eddie later ditched his shades
The Hollywood sensation has recently admitted that extreme exhaustion from anxiety was ultimately what earned him the Oscar-win for his portrayal of Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything – not his acting talent.
The British actor wowed viewers and critics alike with his extraordinary performance as the celebrated theoretical physicist, who lived with a rare form of ALS – a neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
For the role, Eddie trained for months with zombie choreographer and movement director Alexandra Reynolds, in order 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 behind his Oscar-winning performance 10 years ago.
Speaking to a crowd 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 film was portraying him authentically.
‘I spent months prepping it but the way that films work is you obviously can’t shoot chronologically.
‘And particularly the first days of shooting, we had to shoot everything that was set in Cambridge, because the students hadn’t come back yet for the term. So we had to do all of the scenes that were exterior shots.’
The star went on to explain how he had been feeling immense pressure ahead of his first day on set because he had to play the renowned physicist at four different stages during his life: when he was a young man pre-diagnosis, when the symptoms rendered him unable to walk without a stick, when the disease ‘really got a grip on him’ and when he was confined to a wheelchair.
The Hollywood sensation has recently admitted that extreme exhaustion from anxiety was ultimately what earned him the Oscar-win for his portrayal of Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything – 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 – not just his acting abilities
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 anxiety before shooting, it gets so intense,’ he recalled. ‘The night before the shoot, it got to four in the morning, and I wasn’t asleep. And I was being picked up at six!
‘I got to five in the morning and I was like “Okay, I’m just not going to sleep.” I had 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 to it, the director [James Marsh] poked me and I just fell apart… which is probably very helpful and may have won me an Oscar.’
Eddie’s best actor in a leading role Oscar was one of many during the 2014 awards season, with the star collecting 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 the ultimate accolade likely came from the eminent scientist himself, who said: ‘I thought Eddie portrayed me very well. At times I thought he was me. I think Eddie’s commitment will have a big emotional impact.’
Professor Hawking died, aged 76, in March 2018.
Eddie paid tribute at the time, writing: ‘We have lost a truly beautiful mind, an astonishing scientist and the funniest man I have ever had the pleasure to meet. 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, previously telling The Guardian that he visited the Queen Square Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases in London to talk to MND patients and their doctors.
He also treated the disease as if it were a dance and worked closely with choreographer and movement specialist Reynolds, who famously created the movement for the zombies in World War Z (2013).
‘I had to train my body like a dancer but learn to shorten muscles instead of stretch them,’ he told the publication.
In an interview with Nightline he said: ‘I just needed to train my body, just in order to sustain the positions.
‘I knew that some of the positions would be specific and contorted and not necessarily comfortable.’
The movie 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 The Greatest Showman’s Gayle Rankin.
The Danish Girl star said he was so tired on day one of filming that the director poked him and he ‘fell apart’
