“It superseded all my expectations, which were already pretty high.” “You can see into the eyes of every single person there,” he says, lit up. The transformation of the theatre into the 30s Berlin-set Kit Kat Club – complete with dancers writhing on top of the bar as you arrive – made for an intimate show which won a staggering seven Olivier awards. The 41-year-old recalls not only their “overwhelmingly thrilling excitement” but also the audience’s “thirst for it”. The show arrived when the cast had for so long been home-bound by Covid.
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Slippery and seductive, he contorted his face and body into something otherworldly, his voice full of the same rich vibrato we saw 10 years ago when he starred in the Oscar-nominated Les Misérables. It is not an easy role – the Emcee serves as a sort of host and narrator, his songs becoming darker and more distorted as Weimar Berlin falls into the grips of Nazism – but Redmayne was phenomenal. We have met at Universal’s Decca, the record label that has just published the cast soundtrack of Cabaret, immortalising his Olivier-winning performance as the shape-shifting Emcee at the West End’s Playhouse Theatre, and Redmayne, nursing a hot drink and looking understatedly stylish in a grey cashmere jumper, is thrilled.Ĭabaret marked the actor’s first stage performance since Shakespeare’s Richard II, 11 years earlier.
Still, being off-colour hasn’t diminished the star’s well-documented warmth and politeness. He is just back from the Golden Globes and, since everyone else there seemed to catch Covid – which he has had “plenty of times” – he is just glad it’s not that.
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