SnitchSeeker.com - Video: 'Fantastic Beasts' star Eddie Redmayne chosen as charity Into Film's ambassador

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them's star Eddie Redmayne was chosen as ambassador of Into Film, an education charity organisation aimed towards getting children ages 5-19 interested and involved with the filmmaking process, including joining film clubs at the local schools and facilities and much more. He will help raise awareness of film education throughout the UK.

Redmayne chatted with Into Film last year about what he loved about acting and which Oscar-nominated actor's performance was life-changing for him. That can be viewed here.

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“We are absolutely thrilled to have Eddie on board as an Into Film Ambassador, to help raise awareness of how film can educate, inspire and enrich the lives of children and young people,” Into Film’s CEO Paul Reeve said of Redmayne’s appointment. “As a hugely respected artist, and with his clear love of film and genuine enthusiasm for enabling young people to engage with it, he is a brilliant advocate for what we do. We hope his involvement in Into Film will inspire young people from all corners of the UK.”

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Eddie Redmayne: “When I heard about Into Film, one of the things that I thought was so extraordinary was how little of that I had when I went to school.”

“I went to probably the most privileged school in the country, and there, somehow because our country – because of Shakespeare – we have this extraordinary theatre legacy and we all feel like it’s very important and wonderful – and it is – but what I found is that I got into Shakespeare when I saw a film version of it with Gandalf [Sir Ian McKellen] playing Richard III, and that was when I first got really interested in theatre and in film.”

“My life is film, but it wasn’t when I was a kid. My family weren’t massively into film, I didn’t see a huge amount myself when I was at school – theatre was the thing,” he said.

“I always thought that film was entertainment, it wasn’t something you could learn from and my God, I was mistaken.

“So since then I’ve been trying to up my film literacy and it’s been an extraordinary adventure and it continues to be. Often with film we love watching it because it’s immersive and it’s entertaining … but if you look a bit harder and you ask the questions after, it can be so inspiring. It’s an amazing time to be supporting Into Film.”

Eddie's next movie, The Danish Girl, hits theaters this November, and he will begin work as Newt Scamander in Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them later this month.