Taylor Swift says first meeting with Eddie Redmayne was 'a nightmare' - Insider

• Taylor Swift said her archetypal brushwood with Eddie Redmayne was "a nightmare."
• Swift told Graham Norton she was embarrassed during a surface trial for "Les Misérables."
• She said they made her deterioration a "full 19th-century thoroughfare urchin costume" and painted her teeth brown.

Taylor Swift said that her archetypal brushwood with Eddie Redmayne "became a nightmare" aft she was forced to formal similar a "19th-century street urchin."

During her quality connected "The Graham Norton Show," airing Friday successful the UK, Swift recalled her audition for the 2012 Oscar-winning movie "Les Misérables."

Swift said that she knew she wasn't going to get a portion due to the fact that she had "the look of Cosette and the scope vocally of Éponine" truthful acceptable into neither role. However, the casting manager offered her a surface trial with Redmayne, who would spell connected to play Marius.

"They asked if I would similar to spell to London to bash a surface trial with Eddie, who is 1 of my favourite actors, and I thought, 'This isn't an acquisition I americium going to get again successful my life,' truthful I said yes," Swift said.

However, erstwhile the vocalist got to the surface test, she was forced to deterioration a costume that made her "look similar death."

"When I got determination they enactment maine successful afloat 19th-century thoroughfare urchin costume and told maine they were going to overgarment my teeth brownish and I was like, 'You are going to bash that aft I conscionable Eddie Redmayne, right?'" the "Midnights" popular prima said. "But no, they made maine look similar decease and it became a nightmare.  When I met Eddie I didn't unfastened my rima to speak."

Redmayne, who was sitting adjacent to Swift connected "The Graham Norton Show," said that the surface trial was besides embarrassing for him.

"I thought we would conscionable beryllium singing disconnected each different — I didn't cognize we would beryllium successful each other's arms," the histrion said. "My overriding representation of it is that I had had pizza and ail dough balls beforehand and each I could deliberation astir was my ail enactment portion Taylor was dying successful my arms and I was trying to amusement emotion." 

The relation of Éponine yet went to Samantha Barks, while Cosette was played by Amanda Seyfried.

However, Tom Hopper, who directed the movie, aboriginal formed Swift successful his pursuing musical movie adaptation "Cats."

In 2019, Hopper told Vulture that helium was "very close" to casting Swift arsenic Éponine.

"Ultimately, I couldn't rather judge Taylor Swift was a miss radical would overlook," Hooper said. "So it didn't rather consciousness close for her for the astir flattering reason."

Hopper said that helium came backmost to Swift erstwhile the accidental arose to nonstop "Cats."

"I wrote to her and conscionable said, 'Would you similar to meet? Would you similar to spot the satellite I'm creating?'" the manager said. "And I did a presentation. Eve Stewart had these fantastic paintings she did of the world. I had a 10-second clip of a dancer with fur, lifelike. That was my pitch. She loved it and was precise gracious and truly supportive from past on."