Post by sgev1977 on Jun 1, 2024 17:56:33 GMT
Is BC in the next Wes Anderson movie?!
collider.com/eric-netflix-benedict-cumberbatch-gaby-hoffmann/
Benedict, to briefly veer off the topic of this show and onto something else you have on Netflix, with the Wes Anderson shorts, how was your experience working with and being directed by him, in that kind of magical world with those magical words that you were given? Did that also feel like a very unique experience?
CUMBERBATCH: Yes, is the short answer. I think every experience with Wes is a unique experience, and I’ve just had another. He’s just an extraordinary auteur and cineaste, and a crater of good taste that feels his own, as well as borrowed and inspired by his heroes. It’s a unique experience to be on a Wes Anderson set and literally to step through those sets. With the layers of Henry Sugar, we were shifting between narration and character, and you’re literally walking through scenic flats that are flying up, you’re ripping off costumes that have pajamas underneath the dinner jacket, you’re being handed chips and walking through a lobby, and then going to play black jack a table with Ben Kingsley being a croupier. It is Adam Stockhausen’s brilliant world and Sanjay [Sami]’s operation of this camera and Wes going, “Okay, I think we’ve got it. Let’s do one more for the fun of it,” and it’s the 47th take of that much dialogue. It was the most extraordinary brain gym I’ve had since doing the Sherlock deduction scenes for that series. It was a wonderful thing to be in and a wonderful feeling to do. It was difficult as hell, real tummy-rubbing, head-patting stuff. But again, another reason to get out of bed in the morning. It was fantastic and I adore him. I adore him as a person to be around, to watch, to learn from, and just to be a friend of. What a privilege. And to do it again recently, literally last week, was amazing.
CUMBERBATCH: Yes, is the short answer. I think every experience with Wes is a unique experience, and I’ve just had another. He’s just an extraordinary auteur and cineaste, and a crater of good taste that feels his own, as well as borrowed and inspired by his heroes. It’s a unique experience to be on a Wes Anderson set and literally to step through those sets. With the layers of Henry Sugar, we were shifting between narration and character, and you’re literally walking through scenic flats that are flying up, you’re ripping off costumes that have pajamas underneath the dinner jacket, you’re being handed chips and walking through a lobby, and then going to play black jack a table with Ben Kingsley being a croupier. It is Adam Stockhausen’s brilliant world and Sanjay [Sami]’s operation of this camera and Wes going, “Okay, I think we’ve got it. Let’s do one more for the fun of it,” and it’s the 47th take of that much dialogue. It was the most extraordinary brain gym I’ve had since doing the Sherlock deduction scenes for that series. It was a wonderful thing to be in and a wonderful feeling to do. It was difficult as hell, real tummy-rubbing, head-patting stuff. But again, another reason to get out of bed in the morning. It was fantastic and I adore him. I adore him as a person to be around, to watch, to learn from, and just to be a friend of. What a privilege. And to do it again recently, literally last week, was amazing.
collider.com/eric-netflix-benedict-cumberbatch-gaby-hoffmann/