Close Your Eyes and Imagine Eddie Redmayne and Jamie Dornan Doing Pottery - Vulture

Jan 25, 2021

Over the weekend, Eddie Redmayne and Jamie Dornan interviewed each other for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series, diving into each other’s equally illustrious 2020 film roles.

Redmayne played real-life leftist organizer Tom Hayden in Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, and in Wild Mountain Thyme Dornan played a man-bee.

In the interview, Dornan and Redmayne reminisce about how the nicest day of their young funemployed lives was when they made pottery together, like Ghost between bros.

“The reason why I remember it was 2009, one day, we went to a pottery barn,” Dornan says, referring not to the store but to a literal barn where you make pottery.

And none of us were having a good time of it, then.” Redmayne goes so far as to say, “Making pottery was kind of a high point.