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Post by mllemass on Jul 4, 2023 19:30:34 GMT
I loved the interview, and the questions weren’t cringey at all. The Sherlock question was sweet, and I didn’t mind the signing because they made it clear that he wouldn’t do more.
I loved his fixating on Sherlock when listing actors who inspired him!
And I remember that there was more to the Meryl Streep story that he’s talked about before. He said that on a break during filming, they were outside smoking when he asked her if there was a particular way she had of doing a character, and she said “I just do it”, or something like that. And it was a relief for him to hear her say that because he’d been worrying that his own approach to acting might have been wrong.
oh, and he does a great Meryl Streep when he’s quoting her, and a great Jane Campion and anyone else he quotes. And he doesn’t seem to realize he’s imitating them!
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 4, 2023 23:40:15 GMT
The source is Radio Man! Lol Well, who knows? I guess he has more contacts with VIP people than most Marvel pundits!
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 5, 2023 2:06:49 GMT
Marvel fans are now hyping the out of context quote about him not having anything sure in the immediate future apart of A Complete Unknown (“depending of a possible actor’s strike”) and “some Marvel capers”. I doubt he was being literal! Of course, he is attached to Marvel but he clearly isn’t sure about what’s is exactly coming next! Yep, he mentioned “next year” but everything changes with Marvel and he is actually based most of his info on what Radio Man told him! According to one site, the “Washington Avengers” movie is actually the new Captain America flick and yeah, Harrison Ford is in it but no, BC!
Ironically, the project he seemed more excited about , maybe because he just finished it, was Eric. I mean, sure he seems happy with a new Marvel movie (especially if Ford is in it!) and the Dylan-Seeger film but he was very passionated about his role in Eric and Abie Morgan work. Sad that’s not the kind of work that generates clickbaity articles about it: “Cumberbatch said his next series is so dark that it personally affected him!”; “Cumberbatch says he is glad he joined Abi Morgan’s World”.
I just hope it doesn’t suffer The Child of Time or even Patrick Melrose fate. Both extraordinary series that didn’t got the popularly they deserved. Parade’s End and Brexit were also extraordinary but they at least they were very watched and discussed in the UK. I mean Melrose received a lot of acclaim, awards and press attention but it seemed that a lot of people just didn’t had access to Sky or Showtime when they were originally aired. Such a shame it wasn’t produced by more watched channels but they just didn’t dared because the theme. That’s why it was in production limbo for such a long time.
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Post by queenzod on Jul 5, 2023 4:39:26 GMT
The thing is, 95% (or more) of the people who watched Patrick Melrose thought it was brilliant, and people are still discovering it. I only heard one or two comments when it first aired by idiot people who didn’t understand why they should “care about some posh white guy who’s an addict.” Real bastions of compassion, lol.
I did think A Child in Time was more difficult and a bit of a downer and maybe that’s why it didn’t land as well. Plus, it wasn’t a flashy or showy role for him, with none of the madness he does so well because he was just some regular, normal guy who lost his kid.
We know he likes that “darker” stuff (as I assume Eric will be), because it’s where the meat of a role is, but not everyone goes for that. Some folks just want the plain old Hero stuff and drawing nuance or plumbing conflicting or unresolved ideas or depths is too much for them. They just want to be entertained, feel the hero’s anguish, and have everything work out well at the end. I guess that’s fine if it works for them. Sometimes it’s all I want, too. But I’ll follow BC anywhere he goes, even into a horror flick. 😬
I think we’re lucky that he’s so adept at playing any number of things that we can appreciate his talent from Marvel to Melrose and everything in between. 😍
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 5, 2023 10:52:01 GMT
The thing is, 95% (or more) of the people who watched Patrick Melrose thought it was brilliant, and people are still discovering it. I only heard one or two comments when it first aired by idiot people who didn’t understand why they should “care about some posh white guy who’s an addict.” Real bastions of compassion, lol. It was worse than that. He clearly suggested that there shouldn’t be compassionated stories (based on real life events) about “posh” boys raped by their own fathers. Apparently, too privileged to have his sympathies! Or being permitted to tell their stories! Only working class stories were valid to him. The posh shouldn’t be permitted to talk about abuses they suffered because they don’t “really” suffer! That’s one of the biggest examples of how broken is social media activism. In this case, marinated with the British class system obsessions!
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 5, 2023 11:17:14 GMT
It’s on Deadline!
I really hate this kind of “journalism”. It’s just pure clickbaity! He practically didn’t say anything and this is the only quote by him in the whole article,
At least, include his mention of Pete Seeger and the Bob Dylan film! His role in the film wasn’t never “formally” announced by the trade magazines. Just a random quote by James Mangold hidden in an Indiana Jones at Cannes piece. It was the outlawed pundits who originally broke the news.
At least, they are promoting the interview, I guess!
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Post by roverpup on Jul 5, 2023 11:47:13 GMT
I'm suspecting BC is more "in the know" about his involvement in this upcoming Marvel "caper" than he is letting on. He never would have mentioned it otherwise. I took the Radio Man story as just an amusing way to weave it into the conversation.
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Post by mllemass on Jul 5, 2023 11:56:28 GMT
Did anyone else find it sad that, when talking about The Power of the Dog, Benedict mentioned that there were people that either refused to watch it, or couldn’t make it to the end to find out what happened?
I know that we here all know that that was the case, but I guess I kind of hoped that he hadn’t heard it. A good friend told me that she wouldn’t watch it because another friend of hers said it was boring - no matter how much I urged her to see it.
People can be such idiots! Literally! They don’t want to pay attention and follow a story. Ugh!
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Post by queenzod on Jul 5, 2023 12:22:45 GMT
I’m sure he realizes his work isn’t for everyone. Remember that Adobe interview years ago when he said people could think his work good, bad, or indifferent? I don’t think he takes it personally at all. He does his best, and people will have their reaction to it. That’s part of doing art. You make something, throw it out into the world, and work with the reactions.
There’s plenty of stuff I won’t watch, and even more I just don’t care for. It’s not personal against any particular actor (with a few exceptions Tom Cruise Mel Gibson koff koff), it’s just I don’t care for the genre or whatever.
To me it’s an indication how secure and resilient BC’s ego is. He’s not attached to having people like him, he doesn’t whine about it like some others do, he knows himself and his self worth isn’t contingent on other people’s approval. That’s pretty amazing when you think about it. Lots of people haven’t reached that level of self-actualization.
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Post by mllemass on Jul 5, 2023 18:40:27 GMT
I know he doesn’t take it personally, and certainly TPOTD received such rave reviews and awards (except at the Oscars) that those negative comments meant very little at the end. But the fact that he brought it up in that interview, after all this time, means that it did bother him at least a little. And he’s never said “I don’t care what people think of my work”. He wants people to love his work as much as he does. He’s such a positive person and always finds good things to say about his work. And he constantly praises his co-workers, too.
I don’t think any amount of positive comments could have led to him winning the Oscar over Will Smith, though.
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