Eddie Redmayne and Benedict Cumberbatch share Oscars disbelief
British actors Eddie Redmayne and Benedict Cumberbatch sent text messages to each other within minutes of the Oscars nominations on Thursday (15Jan15) to share their disbelief after they were both shortlisted for a major honour.
The two will go up against each other for the prestigious Academy Award for Best Actor after Redmayne was nominated for playing scientist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything and Cumberbatch was shortlisted for his role as World War II code-breaker Alan Turing in The Imitation Game.
Redmayne was asleep at his hotel in Los Angeles when the
nominations were announced on Friday morning, but within minutes he
was awoken by a knock on the door, a ringing phone and a flurry of
text messages from his fellow Brit nominee.
He tells Sky News, "I'm feeling pretty good. It's an amazing,
amazing thing. It's the crack of dawn here in Los Angeles and I was
in the middle of a deep, dark sleep and suddenly there was a rap on
the door and I stumbled to the door and it was my manager there and
a team of people on the phone screaming, which was very
exciting.
"I'm just trying to come to terms with it all. I've gone from 0 to
100 miles per hour in the space of about four minutes. It's
extraordinary... It's sort of beyond dreams really... It's really
beyond anything I ever imagined. I'm thrilled."
When asked if he had heard from Cumberbatch, he adds, "I just got a
text message from him. We texted each other. There were a lot of
exclamation marks used! I was so excited."