Eddie Redmayne, Hugh’s co-star from Elizabeth I and Savage Grace recently did a hilarious interview in the March 2008 issue of Interview Magazine. He was interviewed by Burberry’s creative director, Christopher Bailey, who is also a friend of Hugh and was seen in the most recent event photos and candid pictures. Enjoy the funny bits below, and read the whole thing here!

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Christopher Bailey: But I want you to tell me about Savage Grace: Is that the one where you play Julianne Moore’s gay son?

Eddie Redmayne: Exactly.

CB: And is that the one with Hugh?

ER: That is the one with Hugh Dancy.

CB: And you snog the Dancy?

ER: I get to snog the Dancy. [Bailey laughs] The last time I read Interview magazine, there was an interview with Hugh by a friend of ours called Toby Jones, a wonderful actor, in which the two of them mocked my horse riding in the most barbaric way, and I’ve been angry ever since.

CB: [laughs] So now we can get back at the Dancy!

ER: We did this Helen Mirren Elizabeth I movie together.

CB: Yes. I remember, because I switched on the TV at one point–it was about a year or two years ago–and there was Hugh with his hand up Helen Mirren’s dress, [laughs]

ER: I had auditioned to play his sidekick in that film–the Earl of Southampton, who was sort of pauncy, indulgent, and who kind of had a crush on the Earl of Essex. This thing involved me horse riding, which I’d been asked in the audition whether I could do. And it is a truth, universally acknowledged, that as an actor, if you’re asked if you can horse ride, you say yes. But then cut to a month later, on the set in Lithuania, and there I am, on a horse, having not even sat on a horse since I was about 4, blazing into things–I nearly killed myself and approximately 43 Lithuanian extras. And since then I’ve become known as “The Liar.” What’s more embarrassing, with The Other Boleyn Girl, is that I’m basically becoming typecast as sort of a Tudor horseman, [laughs]

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ER: But back to Savage Grace.

CB: When’s it going to be out?

ER: In the States in May and the U.K. in March. It’s this extraordinary story about the Baekeland family, who had an insane amount of wealth, and the couple–Brooks and Barbara Baekeland, my character’s parents–were complete social climbers. The wife once had a screen test in LA. and acted like a movie star; she is played by Julianne Moore. This wife was really screwing and social climbing her way through New York society. She had a gay son, and they would spend the summers in Cadaques, Spain, and other times in Paris. She also had this walker–an escort for social occasions–played by Hugh, and they have this sort of quite extraordinary menage a trois moment in the film.

CB: You and Julianne and Hugh?

ER: Julianne, Hugh, and I. And it was one of the more bizarre moments–with me, this sensationally beautiful sort of Hollywood actress, and Dancy.

CB: I thought you were going to say, “the sensationally beautiful Hugh Dancy.” [laughs]