Edwards still wears glasses, but without the thick lenses that made the world laugh in 1988. He says he will always enjoy being “Eddie the Eagle,” and that he has no regrets about his Olympic ...

Eddie The Eagle ... Egerton channels Edwards in the film, sporting the thick-lensed glasses that the competitor became known for. Continue reading to compare Egerton’s film look to these ...

Eddie Edwards is also the only ski jumper to ever ... to train with teams that take him in like an orphan. He wears glasses thick enough for a near-sighted professor and is the subject of a ...

Eddie Edwards was born in Gloucestershire ... He was heavier than a lot of his competitors, and he worse glasses as thick as wooden coasters. He ran out of money attempting to qualify as a ...

Eddie was expected ... The Secret Service," plays Edwards with an abundance of awkwardness leavened by naiveté, his prominent underbite and oversized thick glasses dominating his face.

Taron Egerton and Hugh Jackman team up for this quirkily inspirational shaggy-dog biopic of British ski jumper Michael 'Eddie' Edwards ... Recognizable by his thick glasses, blonde mustache ...

Wearing thick glasses under his goggles would often mist up ... or the top 50 competitors to qualify for the Olympics. The nickname "Eddie The Eagle" was one of many given to Edwards by fans and ...

The audience of journalists and critics is buzzing, high off of the fantastic victory that is the film Eddie the Eagle as credits roll ... to merely adapting an under bite and wearing thick glasses.

Perhaps when it comes to a movie about Eddie the Eagle, low expectations are par for the course – or whatever the correct ski-jumping metaphor would be. The British athlete who came dead last in ...

If that’s true then Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards will be guaranteed a seat ... He is inherently easy to mock, watching from behind bottle-thick glasses as everyone in his field sails beyond ...