Eddie Redmayne Talks Using Prosthetics to Transform For Disguises In 'Day of the Jackal'

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Eddie Redmayne is opening up about his physical transformation on screen in his new series The Day of the Jackal!

The 42-year-old stars as a ruthless assassin, the Jackal, who “makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer (Lashana Lynch) who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.” In the series, Eddie uses prosthetics to help disguise himself, with the first episode seeing him as an elderly German cleaner.

During a recent interview, he dished on the transformations and what it was like using the prosthetics. Keep reading to find out more… “My overwhelming memory of those days was [prosthetics designer Richard Martin] coming and doing pin pricks through the prosthetic and this sweat oozing out the top,” he told Variety about a scene in Ep 1, where he was in hair and makeup for four hours on a hot day.

The actor added that having to act through the layers of prosthetics has certain challeneges. “You don’t get much time to prep with them, because it costs so much money, and they take so long to put on,” Eddie shared. “And they’re so deeply uncomfortable that people quite often go, ‘Oh, that’s a prosthetic performance.’ But having experienced quite a lot of it myself, when I look at someone like Colin Farrell’s performance [in The Penguin] or Gary Oldman’s performance [in The Darkest Hour], you don’t get much time to prep in it.