A South Whidbey woman had plenty of reason to watch and celebrate The Academy Awards show Feb. 22.

Kitty Walker watched the whole program, starting with the red carpet, to see her granddaughter, Hannah Bagshawe, and grandson-in-law. Her granddaughter’s husband? Eddie Redmayne, who starred in “The Theory of Everything” as theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

“Wasn’t he excited? Yes, he was,” Walker said in a phone interview with The Record on Friday morning. “When he looked across at her and said, ‘I love you so much,’ he said that at their wedding. They’re a forever couple.”

“I thought my granddaughter was absolutely beautiful, which she is,” she added.

Walker, in her English accent, laughed often at the attention she has received in Langley at In the Country, the store she has worked at for the past six years. She’s been a South Whidbey resident for 17 years.

Walker highly recommended watching “The Theory of Everything” and noticing Redmayne’s performance.

“Then you’ll know why he won it,” she said. “He became Stephen Hawking. To this day, I don’t know how he did it.”

She said to pay close attention to his eyes.

“They speak volumes,” she said.

“Eddie is humble,” she added. “He’s great.”