Eddie Redmayne checked his fiancée's ring size while she was sleeping.

Eddie Redmayne measured his fiancee's finger while she was asleep so he'd know what size engagement ring to buy her.

Eddie Redmayne at Toronto International Film Festival
Eddie Redmayne at Toronto International Film Festival

Eddie Redmayne measured his fiancee's finger while she was asleep so he'd know what size engagement ring to buy her.

Redmayne is set to marry antique dealer Hannah Bagshawe in December and couldn't find any way to measure her finger before he proposed so he was forced to wait until "the middle of the night."

Eddie 32, ended up "taking her hand, and putting her finger next to my finger" and guessed the size before buying her engagement ring.

Thing could have been so different if Eddie had been successful at his first career for before carving out a career in Hollywood he was scouted by a model agent while he was at university.

Eddie Redmayne is set to marry antique dealer Hannah Bagshawe 

He says "The most success I think I had was doing a knitting magazine that was sent to grannies, but after my huge, heady days in knitting books, I left it behind."

He is quoted in Vogue magazine as saying "I come from a totally unmusical, untheatrical family.

But admits that he always loved is variety, and refers to a phrase in 'My Week with Marilyn' where Kenneth Branagh, playing Laurence Olivier, turns to my character and says, 'Glad, you ran away to the circus?' as one of his insirations


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