On Sunday, Eddie Redmayne took home the best actor Oscar for his role as famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything."
The real-life Stephen Hawking, 73, didn't attend the awards show but made it known that he approved of Redmayne's portrayal of himself:
"The Theory of Everything" focuses on Hawking's relationship with his first wife, Jane Wilde Hawking, and how the couple deal with his motor neurone disease, ALS.
After the lights came up, a nurse wiped a tear from Hawking's eye. He called the film 'broadly true,' and even celebrated with the film's director James Marsh and screenwriter Anthony McCarten at a bar where he sipped champagne from a teaspoon. 'He emailed us,' Marsh says, "and said there were certain points when he thought he was watching himself."
"The Theory of Everything," which was made for $15 million, has raked in over $104 million at the worldwide box office since its November release.
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