A look back at what Golden Globe winners said about their roles

REDMAYNE. Dishes about embarrassing moment with Stephen Hawking. RUBEN V. NEPALES

LOS ANGELES—The recent Golden Globe Awards made us dig up what some of the winners said about their roles in our previous pieces:

Eddie Redmayne, best actor-drama (“The Theory of Everything”). Eddie, who plays Stephen Hawking, recalled his first meeting with one of the century’s greatest minds, at the latter’s Cambridge home:

“I basically spent a good 35 minutes vomiting forth information about him, to him, telling him about himself.

“There was one slightly embarrassing moment. I said, ‘You were born on the eighth of January, Galileo’s birthday.’ He made a big point that he was born 300 years after Galileo was born.”

Still smiling, Eddie carried on, “I said, ‘I was born on the sixth of January, so we’re both Capricorns.’ Stephen looked at me, then spent a few minutes typing on his machine. In his iconic voice, he said, ‘I’m an astronomer, not an astrologer.’”

Julianne Moore, best actress-drama (“Still Alice”). Julianne worked with fellow winner, Eddie, in 2007’s “Savage Grace,” where they played mom and son. “Eddie is a wonderful actor,” she said. “He was incredibly prepared. I remember that we held auditions in New York. There was a handful of young men that we saw. Eddie was 19. He was clearly the only one for the job the moment he read.”

Patricia Arquette, best supporting actress (“Boyhood”). Patricia was candid when we asked her how she felt, as a woman and actress, to see herself mature through the 12 years in which “Boyhood” was intermittently shot.

“Part of it was exciting to me, because so much in Hollywood is about the ego and image,” she said. “It’s always been part of film, but it’s probably my least favorite part of it. I wanted to be brave about exploring and seeing that.”

Laughing, Patricia confessed, “Having said that, I do have an ego, and I do have moments when it’s difficult to see (myself in the film). But, I think all of my friends, even if they aren’t actors, look in the mirror. Sometimes, I look in the mirror and go, ‘Who is that old lady? What is she doing here?’

“It’s more obvious because I’m an actor, but I think it happens to all of us. There’s something beautiful about it happening.”

JK Simmons, best supporting actor (“Whiplash”). As early as September last year, here’s what we wrote about the actor’s performance in “Whiplash”: JK Simmons is one of the actors who should be dusting off his tux for the awards season. In director Damien Chazelle’s “Whiplash,” one of the best films we’ve seen so far this year, JK is terrific as a “terror” college jazz band instructor.

The thespian, certainly one of the finest character actors of his generation, will finally get his overdue recognition with this performance.

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