Eddie Redmayne Admits Playing Stephen Hawking Gave Him "Occasionally Wild Panic Attacks"

Eddie Redmayne knows he might have seemed an unlikely choice to play world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. When the actor took the stage to accept the Desert Palm achievement award at last night's Palm Springs International Film Festival, he talked openly about the pressures of the role and what he learned from playing this extraordinary man on screen.