Eddie Redmayne recalls hilarious failed audition to play a Star Wars villain as he appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live in Los Angeles

Eddie Redmayne recalled a hilarious grounded audition he had to play a Star Wars villain arsenic he appeared connected Jimmy Kimmel Live. 

The Theory of Everything star, 42, touched down successful Los Angeles this week to subordinate nan chat show big connected Wednesday's section of nan show. 

During nan interview, Eddie was asked astir auditions he had done successful nan past wherever he hadn't sewage nan portion - and revealed he had erstwhile been seen to play a Star Wars 'baddie'. 

But nan character said that for immoderate large movies you aren't fixed a book for nan audition, alternatively you are handing lines from various different projects that springiness an thought into who nan characteristic is - successful this case, Star Trek and Pride and Prejudice.

In an effort to drawback nan principle of nan expected villain, Eddie recalled nan flop audition - wherever he revealed he attempted to play Mr Darcy pinch a Darth Vader voice. 

He told Jimmy: 'I auditioned galore years agone to play, and astatine nan clip we weren't told what it was, this irritating point astir auditioning for those immense movies is they don't fto you publication a script, you person nary thought what it is, I conscionable knew it was for a Star Wars movie - and it was perchance to play a baddie.

'But they don't springiness you nan script. So they springiness you for illustration sides, for illustration these book pages, and I benignant of worked retired from looking astatine them, that they was a spot of thing from Star Trek and a spot of thing from Pride and Prejudice [laughs].

'So I recovered myself going into this audition knowing that I was auditioning to play a Star Wars baddie and I benignant of did this, what I thought was this benignant of Mr Darcy/Elizabeth Bennett segment successful my Darth Vader voice.'

The assemblage burst retired laughing arsenic Eddie mimicked his Mr Darcy does Darth Vader voice, earlier he added: 'There was this awesome casting head called Nina Gold, who has been very generous to maine successful nan past. 

'And I did astir seven, 8 takes of my sci-fi, weird, romantic, screwed up begetter voice, and yet she's for illustration "Eddie... person you sewage thing else?" and I was for illustration "No".

'So she's for illustration "Do you want to go?" and I was for illustration "I deliberation I should".'

Laughing, Jimmy asked: 'Do you find that erstwhile they opportunity astatine nan extremity of an audition, "You sewage thing else" that you didn't get nan part?'

'Yeah it tends to beryllium nan case,' Eddie replied. 

Earlier successful nan day, Eddie was seen arriving astatine nan Jimmy Kimmel Live workplace successful LA up of filming. 

He kept it casual successful a grey t-shirt and slim jeans, pinch a brace of sunglasses hanging disconnected his collar. 

Eddie completed nan relaxed look pinch a brace of trainers - earlier changing into a smart suit for nan chat show.

It comes aft Eddie lifted nan lid connected starring successful and getting progressive pinch nan accumulation broadside of thriller series, The Day of nan Jackal.

Eddie and his co-star Lashana Lynch, 36, who prima arsenic Jackal and Bianca successful nan cat-and-mouse style show, opened up to Radio Times about stepping into nan roles and really this updated type of nan communicative compares to nan original.

The upcoming governmental thriller follows nan 1973 movie of nan aforesaid sanction arsenic nan 2nd English-language adjustment of nan 1971 book of nan aforesaid name.

Reimagined into a modern governmental setting, The Day Of The Jackal (2024) centres astir an unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, nan Jackal who makes his surviving carrying retired hits for nan highest fee.

However, nan Jackal meets his lucifer successful a tenacious British intelligence serviceman who starts to way him down successful a thrilling cat-and-mouse pursuit crossed Europe, leaving demolition successful its wake.

Also starring are Guardians Of The Galaxy's Chukwudi Iwuji, Game Of Thrones' Charles Dance, and Money Heist's Ursula Corbero.

Eddie told nan publication: 'When I saw this successful my inbox, I was pretty… You don't want to messiness pinch thing arsenic superb arsenic this, truthful I was a spot tentative.

'The point I emotion astir nan original structure, which Ronan has managed to retain, is nan overseas thought that you person these 2 protagonists who are profoundly morally compromised, making vicious choices and yet you benignant of lukewarm to some of them.'

He added that this caller type makes it harder to activity retired who you should guidelines for arsenic nan morality is 'grey'.

'We each person that blurry territory wrong america successful immoderate ways – that thought of nan binary of bully and evil doesn't beryllium truthful much,' he explained.

Meanwhile, Lashana admitted that erstwhile she was approached astir taking connected nan domiciled of Bianca, she asked to beryllium progressive pinch nan accumulation broadside of things too.

The character said she wanted to: 'Protect nan things that I knew I really wanted to talk wrong nan piece.'