Redmayne and Jones would have thought he meant all the bags and weights on board, with the result that they ultimately had no chance of getting the balloon to rise.
“We came down and hit trees. This gigantic basket fell to the ground from about 30 meters,” said Redmayn. Jones hit his head on a pole in the balloon. At first she couldn’t move her head, but fortunately it soon became clear that she was not seriously injured.
In dem Historien-Drama “The Aeronauts“It’s about the British ballooning pioneers Amelia Wren and James Glaisher, who ventured to great heights in an open balloon in 1862. The screenplay is by Jack Thorne (“Wunder”), Tom Harper (“War & Peace”) was on board as a director.
Redmayne won in 2015 for his role as the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking Oscar for Best Actor in The Discovery of Infinity.