--- description: The young Hawking was quite the charmer, as this new clip shows title: Watch Eddie Redmayne Charm as Stephen Hawking in 'The Theory of Everything' Clip image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21b0293a6225a73e/6987624955a85963cfa83629/eddie-redmayne.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking in Exclusive _The Theory of Everything_ Clip  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 22, 2014 4:08 PM CUT  Eddie Redmayne (L) and Felicity Jones attend The Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences hosts an official Academy members screening of "The Theory Of Everything" on October 21, 2014 in New York City. Eddie Redmayne (L) and Felicity Jones attend The Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences hosts an official Academy members screening of "The Theory Of Everything" on October 21, 2014 in New York City.Robin Marchant—Getty Images  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 22, 2014 4:08 PM CUT Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has accomplished so much professionally (his countless contributions to science) as well as personally (he was given two years to live following his motor neuron disease diagnosis) that director James Marsh could have easily made his upcoming film _The Theory of Everything_ a straightforward biopic. But the movie is a love story at heart, and Jane Hawking, played by Felicity Jones, is as much a part of it as Hawking, played by Eddie Redmayne in a performance that’s already garnered plenty of early Oscar buzz. Adapted from Jane Hawking’s memoir _Travelling to Infinity: My Life With Stephen Hawking_, Marsh’s film _s_pends plenty of time exploring the couple’s early courtship after they met as students at the University of Cambridge. In this scene, premiering exclusively at TIME today, Hawking’s remarkable curiosity about how the world works starts to win over Jane during the university’s famous annual May Ball. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3531545/the-theory-of-everything-eddie-redmayne-felicity-jones/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3531545/the-theory-of-everything-eddie-redmayne-felicity-jones/"},"headline":"Watch Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking in Exclusive The Theory of Everything Clip","datePublished":"2014-10-22T16:08:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:56:42.769Z","description":"The young Hawking was quite the charmer, as this new clip shows","url":"https://time.com/3531545/the-theory-of-everything-eddie-redmayne-felicity-jones/","keywords":["movies","Stephen Hawking","eddie redmayne"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21b0293a6225a73e/6987624955a85963cfa83629/eddie-redmayne.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21b0293a6225a73e/6987624955a85963cfa83629/eddie-redmayne.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences Hosts An Official Academy Members Screening Of The Theory Of Everything","caption":"The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences Hosts An Official Academy Members Screening Of The Theory Of Everything","creditText":"Robin Marchant—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3531545/the-theory-of-everything-eddie-redmayne-felicity-jones/","name":"Watch Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking in Exclusive The Theory of Everything Clip"}}]}] ```