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Eddie Redmayne’s kids would much rather their dad stick to wizardry after seeing him in his new Netflix drama.
The actor, 40, appeared onThe Late Showwith Stephen ColbertTuesday where he shared how his young kids took to him playing a dark role in his filmThe Good Nurse, streaming now. In the Netflix film, which is based ontrue events, Redmayne stars as Charles Cullen, a nurse who was responsible for the murders of dozens of patients over the course of 16 years.
While filming the movie in New York and Connecticut, Redmayne told Colbert that his kids, son Luke, 4, and daughter Iris, 6, joined him on set and “caught a glimpse of the trailer for the film.”
“They also thought that I was playing the good nurse, then they caught a glimpse of the trailer for the film, which again is horrific parenting, and they realized quite promptly that I was not the good nurse,” he said.
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“My daughter asked me if I could maybe go back to being a wizard,” added Redmayne, who stars in theFantastic Beastsfranchise.
“My kids think that my job is to go and run a sweet shop,” he said with a laugh.
“There was a moment this year where I felt like as a dad, who played a wizard, I could try and get some brownie points,” he began. “I gave Iris, my daughter, Newt’s wand. Which I thought was pretty exciting, and she’s like ‘Okay, thanks Dad.’ "
“I came back an hour later and she covered the thing in tinfoil, she’d made a little star and made a fairy wand. And she’s like, ‘Now this is a wand,’ " Redmayne shared. “[That] slightly undermined my brownie points.”
source: people.com
