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That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it. Eddie Redmayne hate people interesting People ask, "Do you enjoy acting?" But you only have those specific few hours to do a scene, and then you drive home and wait for six months to find out how it went. You can't go back and put in a new idea. Filming is about continuing to be alert and to think, and I find it quite exhausting. Certainly I would say that fear is a part of that. Eddie Redmayne home people thinking I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars. Eddie Redmayne now-and-then tvs stars I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. 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