Eddie Redmayne Wore Tons Of Deodorant And 'Pulled Lots Of Muscles' For Early Man

Eddie Redmayne is a male of several talents, yet, apparently, doing voices isn't one of them.


"I'm really crap at, like, doing impressions of people," the star of Early Man told MTV News correspondent Josh Horowitz. "I basically have no experience other than doing one episode of Thomas the Tank Engine."


Still, Redmayne had to come up with something as soon as he signed on to star as Dug in the animated movie from the celebrated Aardman Studios, so he turned to his 20-month-old daughter, Iris, for help. "Dug ended up being some categorize kind of version of how I voice my daughter’s teddy bear to her," he mentioned. "So basically slightly high-pitched and eager.”


Although it sounds like Redmayne may have been a little more intense with Dug than he is with his teddy bear impressions, admitting the "weirdly overly physical" experience required access to "a shedload of deodorants" at the recording studio.


any time I first saw [all the deodorants] I didn’t understand why," he laughed. "Then right after about 50 minutes... 'I should probably go to the loo,' spraying every time!"


Not also surprisingly, Redmayne's eager physicality led the one-time wizard elbow- and wand shoulder strain-sufferer to some physical ailments while in the making of this (again, animated) movie. "I also, like, pulled some muscles in weird places from getting a little over-energized," Redmayne admitted.


Well, you don't win Oscars, Tonys, Golden Globes, and SAG awards by sitting quietly in a corner!