Fantastic Beasts' Eddie Redmayne has a charmed career, so what spell would he want to cast?

British actor Eddie Redmayne arrives at the UK premiere of Fantastic Beats the Crimes of Grindelwald in London, on Nov 13, 2018. PHOTO: EPA-EFE
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LOS ANGELES - Eddie Redmayne admits he is as neurotic as the next actor - the years of getting rejected for roles mean there is always a voice in his head telling him he may never work again.

And this despite a career most would kill for. There was his Academy Award-winning turn as the physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything (2014); his Oscar-nominated performance in the biopic The Danish Girl (2015); and his lead role in the Fantastic Beasts films, which are poised to become a mega franchise.

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