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Eddie Redmayne has teased fans with an exciting new update concerning his forthcoming return in The Day of the Jackal season 2. Based on Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 novel of the same name, Redmayne marks the third actor to play the mysterious assassin known as the Jackal, after previous movie adaptations have seen the character played by both Edward Fox in 1973 and Bruce Willis in 1997’s The Jackal. Generating largely positive reviews and earning Redmayne multiple award nominations, The Day of the Jackal was renewed for season 2 shortly after it made its streaming debut in November 2024.

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Redmayne expressed his enthusiasm for his role on Day of the Jackal. Describing the show as an “actor’s playground,” the star explained that it was the clandestine nature of the character and his penchant for adopting multiple disguises and accents that made the role so appealing to him. Check out his comments below:

It’s an actor’s dream. I describe this show as a sort of actor’s playground, all the things that when you are little and the reason you get into acting [like] changing your voice, doing accents, doing languages, changing the way you look, makeup, stunts, all of that really, but also this quite intense depth of emotion. It had everything. It was a very easy yes for me.

Redmayne was also quizzed about plans for The Day of the Jackal season 2, and while he was unable to elaborate on where the show may be taking his character, he did reveal that he has already read some of the scripts for the new season. He also suggested that he’s excited to see if the show’s next season can push the envelope even further. Check out his final comments below:

I can literally say nothing [about season 2]. I was so proud of what we’ve worked on, and I’m so excited to see if we can push it to another level.

What Eddie Redmayne’s Comments Mean For The Day Of The Jackal Season 2

Season 1 Left Audiences With A Lot Of Unanswered Questions

With The Day of the Jackal season 1 finale leaving multiple story threads left unresolved, Redmayne’s most recent comments come as good news for fans eager to see whether his titular assassin will be able to enact his revenge against his former employer. Abandoned by his family and betrayed by Charles Dance’s Timothy Winthrop, the powerful financier responsible for arranging the assassination of tech mogul Ulle Dag Charles, the Jackal likely has a daunting task ahead of him when the show eventually returns.

The Day of the Jackal is the latest adaptation of the 1971 novel, but the modern TV show makes several adjustments to the source material.

With Redmayne’s revelation that he has already read some of The Day of the Jackal season 2’s scripts, it is possible that an official filming start date may not be too far off. Exactly what this means in terms of a prospective release date is still uncertain. However, given that season 1 began filming in June 2023, audiences may still get a chance to see the show back on their screens by late 2026, though a 2027 release would seem more likely.

Our Take On The Jackal’s Season 2 Journey

Eddie Redmayne's Assassin Is No Longer Unflappable

One of the most fascinating aspects of The Day of the Jackal season 1 was the conflict between the Jackal’s clandestine occupation and his desire to keep it a secret from his family. However, with his identity now revealed, and the Jackal’s wife aware of his double life, season 2 will likely see Redmayne play a far more unbalanced version of the otherwise unflappable assassin. Stripped from his family, and targeted by his former employer, the stakes for season 2 will likely offer the actor an excellent opportunity to push the show to a whole other level, exactly as he wishes.

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"Eddie Redmayne Reveals the Surprising Reason Behind Why 'The Day of the Jackal' Is His First TV Series"

Collider, May 30, 2025. Photo by Marcel Pitti/Peacock.

Eddie Redmayne's major TV roles can be counted on one hand. The award-winning actor is best known for his work in films such as Les Misérables, The Danish Girl, and Fantastic Beasts. He has worked in film for decades, but he took on a TV role in last year's television adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's book, The Day of the Jackal. Playing the titular character, The Jackal, Redmayne swam in different waters than he was normally used to, bringing different aspects of the character to life. "This particular character just sang to me. I signed on after reading three episodes," the actor told Deadline about taking on a role in a different medium. "I helped produce, which was riveting in its own way," Redmayne continued.

"It's also a genre that I love. I've never had the opportunity to kind of play but also, as you [the interviewer] say, the character is an actor, so you get ... it's like an actor's playground, right? You get to do accents, you get to do languages, you get to do prosthetics, you get to do physical stuff. It's amazing," he added. However, the experience did not pass without challenges because The Jackal is known for changing any aspect to blend in, and that includes languages. "I don't speak a word of German . . . . I did it phonetically with this brilliant woman named Simone," Redmayne said, while speaking about some of the challenging aspects of the role.

Eddie Redmayne Will Be Back for 'The Day of the Jackal' Season 2.

Redmayne's efforts did not go to waste, as the show was a huge hit and earned a renewal soon after its premiere. Seventy-five days later, The Day of the Jackal Season 1 was crowned Peacock's most-watched original drama series in the streaming platform's history. Redmayne will once again disguise himself as The Jackal, who is on a more personal mission this time around. "There’s some serious bit of unfinished business,” executive producer Gareth Neame told The Hollywood Reporter while teasing Season 2's direction. "We actually know what his priority is, in terms of what his next mission will be. He’s trying to find [his family]. Whether he does or not, let’s see," he added, referencing the Season 1 finale that left The Jackal scrambling to locate his wife after she ran away.

"[We want fans] to root for it and wanting to come back, but without it being something that outstays its welcome and indeed loses its edge. We want to keep the show as surprising and edgy and twisty and turning as it’s been so far," Neame said while addressing the show's longevity issue.

Season 2 is yet to begin production.

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In “ASSASSIN’S LEAD”, the latest feature from @televisionacad Magazine. Eddie Redmayne reflects on stepping into the role of the Jackal in the bold reimagining of The Day of the Jackal. 📖 Out now in the May 28 issue

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"Day of the Jackal: Why Eddie Redmayne Couldn't Resist Returning to TV".

"I had massive trepidation," Redmayne tells emmy, but reading Ronan Bennett's scripts convinced him to join Peacock's adaptation of the classic thriller.

by Benji Wilson, for Television Academy, June 4, 2025.

📸 Photos by: Charlie Gray / TRUNKARCHIVE

In Frederick Forsyth’s classic thriller, The Day of the Jackal, the titular “Jackal” is a master of disguise. So when it came to casting Peacock’s TV adaptation, the first requirement was a lead actor who could transform .

“We all knew that Eddie Redmayne was a fantastically talented, ferociously intelligent actor who had chameleon-like qualities,” says director Brian Kirk (Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones). "But we were most taken with what he did in The Good Nurse; he was playing very aggressively in a contemporary space. And he was playing a character who was inherently unknowable and very dangerous — perfect for the Jackal.”

“With Eddie, it’s not just what you can do with prosthetics and how you can change looks, but also his physicality, his gait and all of those things,” says executive producer Nigel Marchant. “He has that ability for you to empathize with him, but then he can also play very, very cold. You believe he could be an assassin that can kill people. So, we were thrilled he came on board. It's an iconic role. We've got an iconic actor for it.”

In the last decade, Redmayne has played a transgender pioneer in The Danish Girl, a genius diagnosed with motor neuron disease in The Theory of Everything (for which he won the best actor Oscar), a gentle and eccentric wizard in the Fantastic Beasts film franchise and a psychotic serial killer in the Netflix film The Good Nurse. What he hadn’t dabbled in, at least since 2012’s Birdsong (a 2012 BBC limited series available on Netflix), was series television.

“All of it was slightly new to me,” Redmayne says, speaking from his home in the U.K., “because I hadn't done TV for a good decade.” But Redmayne, who was educated at Eton and Cambridge, is a fast study. “In that time, I'd watched friends work in television and seen shows like Succession and The White Lotus and become a massive fan of this ‘golden age.’ So I was always curious a bout how the system worked.”

Back in 2023, three scripts entitled The Day of the Jackal, written by Ronan Bennett, arrived in his inbox. “I had massive trepidation because I admired the original movie, but when I started reading them, I loved the fact that they were modern," Redmayne says.

Producer Christopher Hall (Showtrial, Bloodlands) explains how the series differs from the movie: “We're making 10 episodes, so it's a much bigger, richer canvas. It's the Jackal’s backstory; it's his personal life. In the film, you didn’t know who the Jackal was, even to the last frame. He’s on a mission to carry out a single hit, to kill [French President Charles] de Gaulle, but the Jackal himself is always a mystery and a cipher. Obviously, we play into that, but we do answer some of those questions.”

Bennett — whose latest show, MobLand, is on Paramount+ — has a very particular view of the world, according to Hall. “When you talk about AI writing scripts, I don’t think AI could come up with Ronan Bennett. He’s an original and a one-off. Look at [crime drama] Top Boy. He has that piercing intelligence and a particular worldview that’s really interesting. If I were to encapsulate his worldview, it’s that everyone has both good and evil in them. The Jackal is ultimately a sociopathic killer, but there’s something that we warm to in him enormously.”

In this series, the Jackal echoes classic action heroes, and for Redmayne that was part of the appeal. “This is a genre that I love, you know? The Bournes, the Bonds and those ’70s thrillers like The Parallax View — but it was never necessarily a genre that I thought would come my way.”

He says his success in roles such as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything had sidelined him from consideration as a gun-toting action hero. “Sometimes people go, ‘Oh, you’re the sort of actor that always transforms,’ and I really was never that actor. I just got cast as Stephen Hawking and had to play a real person, and suddenly it’s that cliché that after something successful you get sent more of the same thing. It was, ‘You’re the guy that plays real people.’”

Ironically, playing the Jackal required multiple transformations, personas and prosthetics — but it was undoubtedly a move away from introverts in tweed jackets. “I love that he’s a more physical character. He’s a peacock,” Redmayne says. "I love that every time you see him, he’s wearing something different, going somewhere different."

Playing the Jackal required Redmayne to portray several different roles: He speaks German as a janitor who roams silently through the 30-minute, wordless opening scene; he plays an urbane family man back in his Cadiz villa with his wife, Nuria (Úrsula Corberó, Money Heist, Snatch); he jousts and parries with Bianca Pullman, an MI5 operative played by Lashana Lynch (The Marvels, No Time to Die).

He also had another role on this production: executive producer. Being an exec on a TV show is often a trophy title, but Redmayne was a committed and passionate fan of the original story, and of English actor Edward Fox, who starred in the 1973 film. So if he was going to be an EP and the star, he wanted to do The Day of the Jackal justice.

“Control freakery,” is how Redmayne describes his character type, adding, “There’s a control freakery to the Jackal that perhaps bled into my producorial role.”

In film, the director is usually the control freak, the person in charge. But The Day of the Jackal runs 10 episodes with four different directors using different cinematographers and multiple noncontiguous locations. (A second season has been greenlit.)

"That was all new to me, and I wanted to understand how one found the continuity, or who was overseeing the whole thing," Redmayne recalls. “The answer was: There were tons of eyeballs on it, but it became clear that for Lashana and I, we were the continuity — we were the tissue between it all.”

According to Corberó, being that connective tissue meant a lot of hard work for Redmayne during the shoot. “I was a little bit worried about him, because he was carrying all the pressure. He was shooting every day, spending hours putting on all these prosthetics. It was hard work. I remember, at like 9 p.m., he was texting me asking, ‘Should we rewrite the scene for tomorrow?’ So we were having a lot of conversations.”

Corberó says Redmayne is demanding of himself and of other people. “But the craziest thing is that at the same time — maybe it’s because he’s British — he knows how to do it in an elegant way. He’s charming. And he fights for you. I know that I’m in this show because of him, because he was the one who insisted, ‘We need Úrsula for this.’ I will always be grateful to Eddie for that.”

Corberó’s role in the drama is a new one, but a vital one. As the Jackal’s wife, Nuria, she adds a home life, a backstory and a modicum of compassion to a character who in the book and film is just a stern-eyed shadow. “Nuria is the Jackal’s weakness,” she says. “It’s good for the viewers to see him being a very bad man, like super professional and dangerous, but then just being afraid of his wife. I think that’s what humanizes the Jackal.”

Humanizing the Jackal was the intention from the outset, Redmayne says. “The archetype of the empathy-less assassin whose blood runs cold couldn’t work in this version.” Television demands character depth. This new telling of the Jackal’s story offers explanations for why he is how he is. “We have him as a family man with a military background. Is he also sociopathic? I believe there was a juncture in his life from which point he has held those two things at the same time,” Redmayne says.

Part of the puzzle that Bennett’s scripts unlock is the Jackal’s logic of empathy. How does he square his love for his young child with the brutal demands of his job?

“He had assumed he would be alone all his life, and that’s how he was always going to function,” Redmayne says. “And yet when he meets Nuria and is floored by her charisma, you know that it’s an Achilles heel. When we meet him, he’s made a huge amount of money, he’s married with a child and he wants this to end. He’s lied to his wife from the word go but thinks he can wrap it up if this thing ends, so they can start a new life. And that’s his weakness as an assassin. We’ve been leaning into their love for each other and his love for his kid. That’s really important, and I hope that, again, what slightly differentiates the piece is that you’ll believe all that and you’ll care.”

The Day of the Jackal is executive-produced by writer Ronan Bennett along with Gareth Neame, Nigel Marchant, Sam Hoyle, Sue Naegle, Brian Kirk and Eddie Redmayne. The series is a production of Carnival Films, part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group.

*This article originally appeared in emmy Magazine, Issue #7, 2025, under the title: "Assassin's Lead."

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Roland Garros, France, June 6, 2025.

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‘The Day of the Jackal’ Star Eddie Redmayne on Tackling Iconic Characters, Loving ‘The White Lotus’ and the How Acting Is the Perfect Front for a Spy

May 16, 2025.

By Jenelle Riley, for Variety.

Though Eddie Redmayne currently stars in “The Day of the Jackal,” one of the most acclaimed new shows of the year, he still has time to check out other television programs – including the buzzy HBO hit “The White Lotus.”  But the Oscar winner isn’t throwing his hat into the casting ring for an upcoming season.

“I’m too paranoid about butchering the things I love,” he tells Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast. “There are some things you don’t want to see yourself in because you don’t want to ruin it.” Even the fact that the show shoots in beautiful locations isn’t enough to convince the actor. “You say that, but also you have to be topless for the entire thing. And if you’re pasty and moley like me…I just don’t think the world needs to see my pallid body.”

On this episode, Redmayne discusses what drew him to that Peacock series.

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"Jackal” has already netted Redmayne nominations from the Golden Globes, Critics Choice and SAG Awards. The spy thriller based on the Frederick Forsyth novel was previously adapted into a 1973 film starring Edward Fox as the titular assassin. Redmayne had grown up watching the film and, as previously noted, was hesitant to take on something he loved. But when he was sent the first three scripts by showrunner Ronan Bennett, he was quickly convinced.

The actor notes that having come up in the theater, he was somewhat accustomed to taking on roles previously played by others – such as in the film adaptation of “Les Misérables” or his recent, Olivier Award-winning, Tony-nominated turn as the Emcee in “Cabaret,” which he cites as the role that “got me into acting.”

In fact, recreating a role is part of a long tradition in the theater. “But that’s the same whenever you play Shakespeare part, you know?” he notes. “I did ‘Richard II’ at the Donmar Warehouse and there was literally the Richard II seat where all the other actors who had played Richard – Ian McKellan, Derek Jacobi, Ben Whishaw – would come and sit in the seat. It was always, ‘Oh Christ, there’s another icon!’”

Redmayne finds himself in that position now as a producer on “Cabaret,” which is continuing runs both on Broadway and the West End. He often returns to see the other actors, from Billy Porter to Mason Alexander Park.

“I’ve taken such joy going back and watching them all,” he said. “Seeing how every different Emcee and Sally brings their own individuality and own kind of charisma to the part.”

Redmayne himself garnered quite the response when he performed the opening number on last year’s Tony Awards, as viewers got the see the sinister, marionette-like Emcee in close-up. One comment referred to him as “my sleep paralysis demon,” which is a testament to how unsettling the character is supposed to be.

“I don’t know if that was meant to be taken as a positive, but I took it as a positive,” Redmayne reveals. “I saw him as a grotesque, and he’s meant to make you feel uncanny and uncomfortable. There was a sort of puppeteering quality to him – was he the puppet or was he the puppeteer?”

It was actually when Redmayne was doing “Cabaret” in London that “Jackal” came to him – and the timing was impeccable, as the actor had been toying with an idea for a series.

“One of the weird things about doing theater is every night, someone extraordinary would come and see the show – politicians or the Royal Family or actors – and you’d meet them,” he recalls. “And I thought, Wouldn’t it be interesting if you had a sort of actor who was sort of a spy, but living in plain sight? And had access to all these people. It was an idea that was germinating. And then this arrived.” Redmayne calls the role ‘an actor’s dream,” noting “all the stuff that we all love -getting to change your voice and do accents and do languages and change the way you look – it had everything.”

Of all the people who visited Redmayne backstage, he was most caught off guard by Janet Jackson coming to his dressing room, noting that he and the cast were “completely obsessed.”  He adds, “I think she’s such an inspiring performer, and I just couldn’t get over the fact that she loved the show and kept coming back.”

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MND Association PATRON

Eddie partners with Omaze UK to help the MND Association.

He said: "Ten years ago I became patron of the MND Association having learnt about the devastation of motor neurone disease while researching and filming the Theory of Everything. I was struck by the brutality of MND, and how it robs so many people of a future with their families in the cruellest of ways.

Every day in the UK, six people are diagnosed with MND and six people die from it. As the biggest charitable funder of MND research in the UK, the MND Association is working tirelessly to change this, investing in research to take us closer to effective treatments and a cure.

This exciting partnership with Omaze will further the MND Association’s vital work while shining a spotlight on MND, and the needs of those affected by it".

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