Inside Lily Collins' Relationship With Eddie Redmayne

What's Lily Collins and Eddie Redmayne's relationship like? We mortals love getting glimpses into celebrity life, and that includes deciphering which celebrities are buddies just for show and which are actually good friends. Fortunately, A-list actors Collins and Redmayne appear to be the latter! Collins, the daughter of British singing sensation Phil Collins and star of the hit Netflix show Emily in Paris, and Redmayne, Oscar-winning actor and lead in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series, have been friends for over ten years.

The pair appeared together on an episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Nov. 10, 2016, and discussed their friendship, with Collins saying she and Redmayne have known each other for, "God, what now? Over ten years, I think!" Eddie responded, as only good friends can, with, "A looooong time!" Since even non-celebrity friendships rarely last that long, Redmayne and Collins' relationship makes us wonder... How did they meet? How are they still friends? To answer those questions, here's a look inside Lily Collins' relationship with Eddie Redmayne.

How do a Los Angeles-born child of a pop star and a British actor meet? At a backyard photoshoot, of course. Back in November of 2016, Eddie Redmayne and Lily Collins were interviewed together on an episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In their interview, Collins explained how they originally met at a Vogue photoshoot her mom was hosting in their backyard. She said, "My mom used to host, or she still does, photoshoots in our backyard for certain magazines, and I came home one day from school and Eddie was just by the grass and, like, a fake airplane modeling." Collins asked her mom who he was, and she responded with, "Oh, it's this young actor/model Eddie Redmayne."

Redmayne went on to confirm Collins' tale, also adding that the Vogue spread he was modeling for ended up being scrapped as, he put it, "Anna Wintour was like, 'You look ridiculous.'" The two hung out in the backyard after the shoot, beginning their friendship as only celebrities can.

It wasn't long after that initial backyard hang that Lily Collins and Eddie Redmayne started running into each other at Hollywood parties. In an interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Collins told host Jimmy Fallon that, just a few weeks after that first meeting, she and Redmayne bumped into one another at an award season party. She reminisced, "All of a sudden, I saw him, and he saw me ... it was like, 'What are you doing here?'" She went on to admit that the run-in was "weird," but they "kept seeing each other" at parties and soon developed a friendship. 

So, which parties did they attend? Well, take, for example, a party for BAFTA Los Angeles and the Britannia Awards in October of 2014 (via Just Jared), where both Redmayne and Collins were in attendance. There was also a 2015 Focus Features dinner at which Redmayne was the guest of honor because of his Golden Globe win for Best Actor in The Theory of Everything, as reported by the Daily Mail. Collins was also in attendance with her mother, Jill Tavelman, and Collins and Redmayne even posed together for pictures. The two were also seen together at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in 2013. So clearly, they're no strangers to partying together.

Celebrities, they're just like us — they match with their friends! Or, at least, Lily Collins and Eddie Redmayne do. The A-list pair posed together in a photo Collins posted to her Instagram page in 2018. In the pic, the friends and Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong'o were rocking tough-looking leather jackets with silver zippers and hardware. The caption read, "We got the leather jacket memo. Matching with @lupitanyongo and #eddieredmayne last night..."

It makes sense that Lily Collins and Eddie Redmayne know how to pull off a leathery look. The good friends both have a love of playing with edgy, textured style. Collins told Seventeen in 2013, "I've definitely edged-up my style a little, but not for any reason other than I'm experimenting with myself." And in 2015, Redmayne admitted to Men's Health, "I like to add substance [to his outfits] with texture and color." These two seem to be on the same page!

Lily Collins' friendship with Eddie Redmayne isn't just about parties and matching jackets, though. They also support each other in their successful careers — which both of them certainly have. Collins has made headlines for her starring role in Netflix's Emily in Paris, and the starlet also turned heads when she played Ted Bundy's girlfriend Liz Kendall in the movie Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. And don't forget when she was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2017 for her work in Rules Don't Apply. Redmayne has filmed the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series, of course, though he might be better known for playing famed scientist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. 

It was his Theory of Everything role that gave Redmayne his first major awards. In 2015, he won both an Oscar and a Golden Globe for bringing Hawking to life on screen. Of course, Eddie's friend Lily Collins was quick to offer congratulations after his win. She posted a photo of the two of them (and his award) on her Instagram page with the caption, "I called it. It happened. And it's heavy. #sobeyondproud."