Car Jacking!
’But I argued my way out. I said: “If you leave me in here, it’s not the lack of air, it’s the small space. There’s a problem with my heart and my brain”.
‘I just tried to explain to them: “I will die, possibly have a fit, and it will be a problem for you. I will be a dead Englishman in your car. Not good”.’
- Benedict Cumberbatch
Submission from werbenaddicted
Hello~~ I was wondring if you can help my location a lengthy interview/editorial i read of BC. I don't rmb exactly what it talked about, but his injuries from Frankenstein are discussed. I initially read it on a site that had Sherlock's face (in colour) as the wallpaper. I am sorry i can't recall any more details-because i rmb it was a great insight in BC's professional and personality. Thanks so much in advance!!
Anonymous
I’m not 100% sure which interview you mean, but Cumberbatchweb (the source of all information!) has a list of all of Benedict’s interviews available here, if that helps. Sorry I wasn’t more useful!
What would be on your tombstone?
“I’ve always liked the idea of a joke tombstone where the corner of the stone peels back and there’s a voice saying: ‘Mmm, Danone’. As for something more profound: ‘I hope they got it.’ (Evening Standard Interview, 23 October 2010)
Benedict Cumberbatch and a Radiohead song…
The only reason for honing onto this track as opposed to any other in a back catalogue whose range defies belief is a personal one. It signifies how the best of times and the worst of times really do sidle up to one another. I first met your dear proprietor when filming a mini-series called To the Ends of The Earth for dear old Auntie (BBC) in South Africa which and I’d had the most amazing time on the job and a weekend learning to scuba dive with two other cast members — the best of times. Then the front right tyre blew on our car, we pulled in and were surrounded by men who came out of the bush and we were carjacked — the worst of times. A long (2.5 hours of ordeal) story but the intrinsic part for the song choice is that it was playing just before the tyre blew when I had lit a spiff and was contemplating how ridiculously blissfully happy I was. The next time I heard it was bundled against the windscreen of the car on the front passengers’ knees with my back and head hitting the windscreen as we were driven off road. My bum hit the car stereo and for a few surreal minutes Tom Yorke was sound tracking me to my death. I turned round as we bounced over the sand track, the headlights showing the passing sugar cane and kept thinking of the shallow graves they dug for themselves in the movie Casino as the master of introspection and modern ennui Mr T Yorke sang ‘I’m not here… This isn’t happening’ … We all lived.
-On ’How To Disappear Completely’ by Radiohead
Source: http://twopaddocks.com/team-tunes.shtml
Mum gets a bit emotional on first nights, but Dad… he started to weep at the first night of After the Dance when he was telling me how proud he was. I didn’t know what to do. I just held onto him. I said, ‘You’re not crying out of relief that I got through it, are you?’ And he said, ‘No, you stupid boy. I’m crying because you were so wonderful.’
I’m not gorgeous. But at least I don’t have to worry about taking precious care of my face because it’s my commodity.
Benedict is fantastic. He’s just so good, he’s super talented, and we are more than grateful to have him onboard.”
“Benedict has got this intensity about him, and he’s obviously extremely intelligent and articulate. His vocal quality is something else. He obviously is, unlike many of us, like, an actually trained actor, he actually studied for it.”
“[You’ll love] everything. He’s really talented, I think it’s all going to be love — a mad amount of love.
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Chris Pine about Benedict Cumberbatch in Star Trek 2 (via hgibson90)
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When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving. I was strapped to an instructor and when we took off out of the plane I thought, ‘I’m either going to be landing very softly or hurtling towards my death’. I couldn’t stop screaming - it was an incredible experience.
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Interviewer: Were you fans of the book before you landed the roles in Sherlock? Did you go back to the books to prepare, or did you avoid that?
Benedict: No, very much I've been reading the books [...] Martin's illiterate. He can't read.
Martin: I'm a deaf mute! He reads them out to me.
[Who are your favourite actors/actresses] Stephen Dillane, Mark Rylance, Simon Russell Beale, Eddie Redmayne, James McAvoy, Casey Affleck, Ryan Gosling, Jimmie Stewart, Adrian Scarborough, Harrison Ford, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Rod Steiger, Steve McQueen, Martin Sheen, Alison Janney, Sissey Spacek, Meryl Streep, Nancy Carroll, Juliette Binoche, Maggie Gylenhall, Amy Adams. There is an infinitely bigger list… God I hate lists!
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[What roles would you most like to play?] Richard II, Oswald in Ghosts, Smaug in The Hobbit…
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I charge in, Charge Of The Light Brigade-style, on this massive Spanish stallion with a sword out. I have a gladiator moment.” He holds his arm out in front of him and does a jerky little swivel. “There! Horrible! That’s how to disengage with what you have on the end of your kebab skewer.
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I do what? God! How exhausting. How fucking awful. I don’t like the sound of myself at all. Well, mimicry is what I do, and a big part of what Holmes does, too. I love doing impersonations of people.
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Benedict Cumberbatch after being told how Mark Gatiss had said about him doing impressions (x)
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The original novels reached a wide, diverse audience and many people still hold up Sherlock Holmes as the greatest detective of all time. He’s a cultural phenomenon that has been translated into over 160 languages – it’s a truly international thing.
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I did Glengarry Glen Ross when I was 19, and afterwards my dad did this extraordinary thing. He said, ‘You are better than I ever was or will be and you can make a living at this.’ It knocked me sideways.
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My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s The Browning Version, where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
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