-Last time I saw you, by the way, you and your wife just had

another baby, so now you have two kids now.

How old are they now?

-So, we have Iris, who's 4, and Luke, who is 2.

-Geez. And where have you been for the last few months?

-Do you know, we've been really lucky.

We've been -- Fortunately everyone has remained healthy.

Until I just started shooting again,

we were in the countryside, which was wonderful.

There was space for the kids to play.

We basically -- We sort of became like an animal sanctuary

while we were there, which was --

-A lot of people have done this.

I have a lot of friends that have done this.

Did you get, like -- Did you get -- Did you get chickens?

-I mean, we are basically a parody of lockdown.

We do have chickens.

We have five chickens whom my daughter named.

They're called Belinda, Sally Henny Penny,

Blanket, Flower, and Henry.

-[ Laughs ] -And they arrived,

and they had come from -- they were sort of battery chickens,

so they didn't look that well, but we kind of nurtured them

to health, and I spent most of lockdown

running into other people's gardens, trying to sort of

retrieve chickens that were causing havoc.

-[ Laughs ] That's wild.

-My wife took great satisfaction from it

because she basically on day one kind of just bought me a drill

and gave me a drill, and just kind of said,

"Here. Learn how to use that. Build me a chicken hutch."

And so I built a chicken hutch, which is like a triumphant --

-You built it yourself?

-I did build it.

I mean, it was kind of flat-packed, so I --

and I succeeded in kind of the bit

where the air was meant to come in.

I got a bit wrong, so I ended up having to drill

holes around it, but genuinely the amount of pride

having built a chicken hutch gave me

was sort of overwhelming.

-I just have pride because I own a drill.

I've never used it, but I own it.

I go, "I know where it is." -I completely agree.

-I can tell you exactly where it is.

I think I have to charge it up before I use it,

but the fact that I own it, I go,

"If you ever need me to drill anything, honey."

She's like, "I'm good."

-I've got it.

The second you get into drilling, it's just like

the most satisfying thing in the world.

-You want to drill everything.

-I was sort of walking around, drilling random holes

in random walls just because it gave me some odd pleasure.

-Did the chickens -- Do they lay eggs?

-The chickens -- You know, they started off

not being that keen for laying eggs.

They were kind of molting and not that happy,

and gradually, as they kind of fed well,

they ended up laying tons of eggs,

which is great except for the fact that I loathe eggs.

I kind of hate eggs.

So I would sort of have to carry these eggs in, in the morning.

Sort of not really wanting --

but doing that thing you do with your children.

-[ Retching ]

Just take it away.

-We were adopted by two stray cats during lockdown,

as in these two very beautiful black cats just came and started

purring at our door, and so again, my daughter named them.

One she called Catty Redman.

And then the other one, who had slightly spiky ears

and looked a bit terrifying, she called Scary Catty Redman.

So Scary Catty Redman and Catty Redman then ended up,

of course, coming into the house and everything,

which is all great, except for I'm deeply allergic to cats.

And so this sort of cat allergy, egg, animal sanctuary thing

was wonderful in theory but slightly stressful in reality.

-Dad of the year.

I'll give you props for that.

I could not go near -- I am allergic to cats too.

-Are you really? There you go, Jimmy.

-Yeah. We should be roommates.

[ Laughter ]

So you just started a production on "The Fantastic Beasts."

-Yeah, yes. -How is everything going there?

-Well, we'd done a day of shooting before COVID-19

really hit the U.K. proper.

So we started on a Friday and then on a Sunday night it all --

we were all told to go home.

And then just a few weeks ago we started again,

and it's a different world,

but we're so lucky to be back in work, and it's interesting.

It's kind of like -- Film crews are amazing people.

And they're very adaptable people, and so we have --

there's a lot of testing.

There is -- You know, we're in bubbles

and we're all masked, but it's been kind of --

To begin with, I thought how is this going to be?

And this ended up being actually kind of great.

So it's nice to be back at work. I feel very lucky.

-You come on my show normally to talk about "Fantastic Beasts,"

but always it's so secretive.

-Yeah. Very secretive.

-You're not even allowed to tell me what it's about.

But you showed me a trick or a move before.

Can you tell us something about this one?

-Do you know what?

Genuinely I'm not being, like, sycophantic,

but one of the, like, joys of promoting

a "Fantastic Beasts" movie is getting to come and force you

to do some ridiculous dance move.

It did cross my mind.

I can't tell you anything about the new film,

otherwise I'll -- you know, someone will get furious,

but there is a moment which I've been sort of working on

and hoping will remain in the film

and which I have been trying to find some sort of

dinky little thing that I can teach you to add.

So I mean, I can't -- I couldn't do it now,

but I'm hoping that come November, we'll have another --

we can add one more move.

We should go dancing one night and just beast

those "Fantastic Beasts" moves out.

-Deal. I will do that with you.

Virtual handshake on that, yeah.

Or elbow bump.

I would totally do that with you.

I will go dancing with you whenever.

That's the best.

I want to talk about "The Trial of the Chicago 7."

Can you stick around and we can talk about that?

-I would love that, man.

-Awesome. More with Eddie Redmayne, everybody.

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