Helping Eddie Redmayne play Stephen Hawking

Katie Sidle is a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, in London. She helped actor Eddie Redmayne in his portrayal of theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking in the film The Theory of Everything. She joins us to describe how that process worked, and what Motor Neurone Disease patients thought about how their condition was depicted. Read the feature:

http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h483