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Felicity Jones says Stephen Hawking once invited her to a nightclub

BANG Showbiz Published Saturday, February 7, 2015 5:49PM EST

Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne and Stephen Hawking

Actors Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne, right, talk with Professor Stephen Hawking on the blue carpet as they arrive for the UK premiere of The 'Theory Of Everything' at the Odeon in Leicester Square, central London, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. (Invision / Joel Ryan)

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Felicity Jones, who stars as Stephen's first wife, Jane Wilde Hawking, in "The Theory of Everything," admits she's been charmed by the world renowned theoretical physicist.

The 31-year-old actress shared: "He has such a dry sense of humour... He has a real rockstar energy... He had seen a screening of the film... and afterwards he was like 'Can we go to to a nightclub? Let's go out and party!' which I love!"

Felicity also revealed how she learned she'd been handed a Best Actress nomination for her part in the film, which also stars Eddie Redmayne.

She told "The Jonathan Ross Show": "You are told you'll get a phone call at 5.30am. I just thought I'll sleep through it, I wasn't really expecting a nomination... I thought, 'It's fine, I'll wake up at 10 a.m. and it'll all have happened and I'll probably be commiserating' ... so I can just spend the day in bed."

"But then I woke up at about 4 a.m., just sprung up ... So I just nervously waited then I got a phone call saying I'd been nominated."

Asked how she felt when she received the news, Felicity said: "There were no words. There was just lots of hyperventilating and exclamations and screaming and jumping around in my pyjamas."