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Henny and Eddie

Henny Garfunkel is an iconic street and portrait photographer, known widely for her inventive ways of making ordinary media calls extraordinary and for giving both unknowns and the world’s biggest names her own star treatment at international film festivals.

Some of my favorite Eddie Redmayne portraits are in the session she did at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011 (when he was promoting Hick), and some of the quirkiest at Sundance in 2008 (when he was promoting Savage Grace).

This short film is a behind the scenes look at what makes Garfunkel so remarkable. (I only wish she hadn’t been narrating over the brief portion with Eddie, so we could hear how she was cajoling him into those poses which ranged from poignant to exuberant.)

NEW: Click on this gallery of Garfunkel’s portraits as shown in the featurette. Many thanks to @RedmayneAddict on Twitter for sharing. 

Lost treasure

We love when an old forgotten photo of Eddie Redmayne is unearthed — like this one by director Sam Taylor Johnson. Repost @samtaylorjohnson on Instagram today:

HOLY SHIT.... you're right

WAIT FIRST WHERE THE FUCK IS TINA AND NAGINI

WHere is TINA?!?!

OKAY OKAY NEWT HAS A NEW COAT AND OUTFIT NOW

Omg he looks SO FUCKING CUTE THE COLOR SCHEME IS BEAUTIFUL

Jacob’s HAIR has undergone some changes … It has a NEWT FLAIR TO IT OH GOD

Also Credence’s hair?!?! HELLO? Our boy has come so far since FB1’s monstrosity of a hair

JACOB has a WAAAANDDDDD

QUEENIE LOOKS EFFING GORGEOUS idc she’s with Gellerto at the moment I wan my cinnamon roll couple to be back

FUCK YES MANY MORE THESEUS MOMENTS

Newt’s sideway crab scuttle 🦀 🦀 🦀

Getting darker?

What should we read into Newt Scamander’s changing signature look, as seen in the new teaser trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore?

The bright teal coat, rust-hued suit and gold waistcoat of the original film had deepened into a dark gray-black tweed overcoat and muted waistcoat for the second installment.

Now the new glimpse of Newt’s familiar ensemble in the third chapter of the series is dark, dark, dark — all charcoal or black —the overcoat, suit, waistcoat, tie.

He looks more like a mortician than a magizoologist.