You’d be hard-pressed to find a greater admirer of Eddie’s show-stopping performance as Balem Abrasax (love ya Eddie!), but I find it hard to express how staggeringly wrong he would have been for the part of Kylo Ren. I’m trying to imagine Eddie!Kylo chasing after Rey in the snow, and I can only think of Balem monolouging to Jupiter about murdering her past self. It’s very confusing.
Fawning over Eddie’s masterpiece of shriek/whisper acting aside, I must say that I’m desperately intrigued by what he was given to audition with:
No. So, I was going for, I think, for Adam Driver. They gave me like a Star Trek scene – or like something from Pride and Prejudice. It was one of those films. With films that top secret, they don’t give you the actual lines. So they give you a scene from Pride and Prejudice, but then they tell you you’re auditioning for the baddie. If you’re me, you then put some ridiculous voice on.
Now, the very fact that they wanted actors trying out for Kylo Ren to audition with a piece from Pride and Prejudice is fascinating. What could it all mean!?
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)
Eddie Redmayne’s Love of Ridiculous Space-Villain Voices Ruined His Kylo Ren Audition
Monsters and Villains 