Taylor Swift's Audition With Eddie Redmayne Quickly Turned Into A Nightmare | The Graham Norton Show

Weirdly, Taylor and Eddie, you have worked together. We have. Wow, yeah. It was a decade ago. I once died in his arms in a screen test for Les Mis. I did not know this. There's a lot that people don't know about this story. Basically, I was auditioning for two roles in Les Mis, and I'd done a few auditions and gone to New York and whatever, and I think it had been established that I had more of a look of Cosette, but I had the range vocally of Eponine, so it was established that, like, I was there for a good time, not a long time. I wasn't going to get this role, but they were like, you know, do you want to come to London for one last screen test and you'll get to screen test with Eddie Redmayne? I'm like, this seems like an experience I want to have in my life. You're like one of my favorite actors. You're so ridiculously talented, and I was like, so, yeah, I'll go to London. I get there, and they're like, okay, so we really want to make you look like Eponine. We're going to try to do, you know, she wasn't, like, loaded. She had brown teeth, you know, like, she didn't have a lot of money, so. A 19th century street urchin. Yeah, exactly. I'm trying to say it in a way that makes sense, but. She didn't floss. Exactly. They were like, we're actually going to paint your teeth brown for this, and I'm like, so you're going to do that after I meet Eddie Redmayne, right? That's not something you do before. I get to meet people, and then you do the brown teeth. I'm like, no, no, this is just, everybody's going to meet you with the brown teeth, and we're going to, like, do, like, big circles under your eyes, like you're near death, and I was like, this has immediately become a nightmare for me, and so then I, you know, you were so nice, but I think when I met you, I was like, I don't know if I'm going to do this. It's hilarious. I, you know, as you walked in as a 19th century French street urchin. And I was not expecting that, but my overwhelming memory of it, Taylor, was I had, I'd just been to Pizza Express beforehand, and I'd had some garlic dough balls. Oh, God. I thought we were going to be singing off of each other, you know, but they had us. Also, it was so weird, because Taylor was dressed fully as Ethanine, and I was, like, in my tracksuit. And they had us on the floor, like, singing Sweet Nothings into each other, and all I knew is I just had garlic bread. And I had brown teeth. I know. We're just a struggle match. It was one of these, it was like trying to show emotion, but at the same time not to punish you. You were weeping, and I just thought it was because of how I looked. I just felt so bad, you're like, I have to be close to her right now. This is, yeah. Oh, this was not the method, no? No. It's nice to hear we were both struggling in that moment. It was a beautiful audition.