How David Bowie inspired Eddie Redmayne’s ‘Day of the Jackal’ transformations

Eddie Redmayne, who stars as the chameleon assassin in Peacock’s adaptation of The Day of the Jackal, credited his frequent collaborator, Alexandra Reynolds — whom he’s worked with since playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything — with tipping him off to David Bowie’s philosophy on costumes.

“She helped me with some of the different characters and the physicality of the different characters in this series,” Redmayne said at a Peacock FYC Q&A at the Lot on Formosa on Monday...