In cinemas this week: Sky the limit again for dream duo Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones in The Aeronauts

They conjured up a cracker of a film with The Theory Of Everything.

And Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones look like they’ve risen to the challenge again with their latest movie together.

Eddie, of course, portrayed the late genius Stephen Hawking in their movie of five years back, with Felicity as his wife Jane.

Now they are flying high in The Aeronauts, the tale of daredevil pilot Amelia Wren and weather scientist James Glaisher.

Felicity’s character is fictional, while Glaisher really was an English meteorologist, aeronaut and astronomer – so famous he has a lunar crater named after him.

He made many attempts to measure temperature and humidity at its highest levels, breaking world records for altitude.

In fact, during his highest-ever, one of his accompanying pigeons died and he himself passed out – now that’s a man who will go further than most to get new facts and data.

In the movie, the starring pair find themselves fighting an epic battle just to survive, while making discoveries of their own in a gas balloon.

As you can imagine, making a movie with a background like this lends itself to one spectacular sky view after another, and its co-stars have really found that chemistry they had in The Theory Of Everything.

It was three years back that Amazon Studios bought the rights to the script and, with Eddie and Felicity on board, they also managed to get Tom Harper, best-known for Peaky Blinders and other TV work.

The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, Regent’s Park, London, Claydon House, Buckinghamshire, and Oxford’s Bodleian Library were among the filming locations – but clearly many of the main thrills were captured up in the clouds.

It has been an incredible few years for the leading pair, who just seem to click on the big screen.

“Up there on the screen, we can all fly,” Redmayne points out. “But down here on Earth, we need to be each other’s wings.”

They really do seem to just go well together. Not that Eddie ever gets overly confident despite all the success.

“I’m just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness,” he reveals. “I’m entirely fuelled by fear. As an actor there’s a lot of scrutiny and, even when you’ve had success, it becomes about sustaining that success.”

Perhaps he was learning his lines while up in the balloon as, he reveals, flying high seems to help him concentrate.

“Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six-year-old!

“That’s why being on planes all the time is so useful. I’m forced to learn out of boredom.”

His co-star admits she can’t bear things to be anything less than perfect.

“I’m a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung,” she admits.

“That’s why I do yoga, to unwind. With acting, it’s not a choice that you make. It’s kind of in you and you have to do it or you wouldn’t be able to survive.”

The biggest flight depicted in the new movie is that of September 5 1862, when Glaisher and Henry Coxwell got to 38,999ft.

Coxwell, of course, has been replaced by the Amelia Wren character. That may make it less historically accurate but when you see this pair on screen all is forgiven.

The Aeronauts is in cinemas from Wednesday November 6.