Video: Eddie Redmayne Wants to Deliver a 'CABARET for the Now'

It's too much. The whole thing is too much. But it's so exciting. What a thrill to be

back here. I adore this city and I adore this show and getting to be part of this community

at an event like this. I talk about it a lot, but Broadway and community is extraordinary

and the way that everyone supports each other and has each other's backs. And the fact that

when I go for dinner between shows, the other day I was having some sushi opposite the cast

of Enemy of the People. It's glorious that. It's really special and I don't take that

for granted. And what this nomination means to you for the MC and cabaret? Gosh. So this

whole piece has been something that I've been woven into for so many years of my life

and I never thought that I would get to do in the West End. The fact that we're doing it here and the fact that it's been recognized across the board here is so wonderful. I hope

what we're trying to do is tell cabaret for the now. There's a sort of urgency to it and

I've seen so many beautiful productions of cabaret and I hope ours is a new investigation

into it and is seen that way. Getting to know John Kander because Joe Mastroff has left

us and Fred Ebb of course, but meeting John Kander and having him talk to you, what that's

meant to you? It was immense. It's the idea that these songs came from his brain. It's

too much to compute really, but the first time we had an email, we'd been pen pals for

a while from when I was doing the show in London and he's always been so supportive

But then when he came on this extraordinary evening, Joel Grey's 92nd birthday and I got

to meet him, getting to meet your heroes but in front of a thousand people on stage is

pretty overwhelming. But he is such a gracious, kind man and feels so behind our take on his

piece and the fact that what makes great work is work that can be reinterpreted and

have new breath and new takes and can be pulled around to hold a mirror up to where we are

and he's been so supportive. My final question is, everybody's here, Broadway is a community

like you said, you can go anywhere. Who do you hope to bump into today and why? Oh gosh

who do I hope to bump into? Well, Jeremy Strong is an old pal. I've known him for 20 years

and I went to see him in Enemy of the People and that whole production I just thought was so

beautiful and gosh, there are so many people that I get to meet. I got to meet Rachel McAdams

who I've been a huge fan of for many years. But the annoying thing about us is we never get to

see other people's shows unless I got to see a couple while I was in rehearsal. So now all I

hear is the whispers of brilliance