■ EDDIE REDMAYNE

won an Olivier for his menacing turn as the Emcee in last year’s revival of Cabaret at the Kit Kat club in London’s West End.

And the 41-year-old Oscar winner got himself geared up to perform the song Two Ladies, by, erm, taking all his clothes off.

‘When we were in rehearsal, we were trying to come up with ideas and it was good but a bit polite. There was a moment when we were encouraged to try something different and . . . basically I stripped almost naked to humiliate myself as much as possible.

‘When you see that moment in the show, that song is like an orgy, with positions you can never imagine people getting into and copies of Mein Kampf being used for horrendously inappropriate things.’ Achtung!