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Eddie Redmayne sensationally reveals he accidentally smuggled a concealed replica rifle through a Hungarian police cordon while preparing for The Day Of The Jackal reboot
Redmayne recalled that he had to cross police lines with the fake weapon after encountering a student demonstration on his way back to his hotel in Budapest.
In the forthcoming Sky TV reboot of the Frederick Forsyth thriller The Day Of The Jackal, Redmayne plays an international assassin whose weapons include a ‘quite staggering’ rifle that can be taken apart and hidden in a suitcase. To prepare for the role, the 42-year-old had to learn how to construct and deconstruct the weapon effortlessly, so took the realistic looking prop off set and back to his hotel in Budapest, Hungary,to practise. He told The Telegraph: ‘Then I realised, uh oh, I need to go back and take it apart, because whoever comes in to do the turn-down service was going to find this massive sniper rifle sitting on the bed.’
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