Post by MagdaFR on Jan 18, 2019 21:04:09 GMT
I have to say that it’s amazing how just some tweaks of a hairline can drastically alter someone’s appearance, to the point when you first come onscreen in the film, I gasped out loud.
CUMBERBATCH: If you want to go about your daily life and not be recognized, I thoroughly recommend having a “no-hawk,” which is what I had and the opposite of a mohawk. You gasped. I had to wear a hat for the duration of the film, which was literally glued to my head when I wasn’t on set. I’ve got this amazing photograph album, where I’d take the hat off and I’d take a photograph of friends and family who I saw over that time, including on my birthday, and it was just a wonderful picture of shock, dismay, horror and confusion. It’s the most wonderful array of human reactions. It’s great.
What was your own reaction to seeing yourself like that?
CUMBERBATCH: I was like, “Well, good, we’re half-way there to looking like him.” I needed to have a good wig on top, to mark out where the hair was being scraped over and where it was going. Once I had done that and the contact lenses, I was happy. I was looking a lit bit more like someone who looks remarkably different to me, even though he’s not that well known to the public. People said, “We’ve cast you, we haven’t cast him. It’s fine. You don’t have to look like him.” And I said, “I think being me, I do have to. I want to step into this person’s skin. I want to feel and look like him. I want to think like him and move like him, and this is part of it. So, I’m gonna do this.” They were like, “Are you sure?” And I said, “Yeah, I really am sure. I have to do it.” But, I’m thrilled with the result.
CUMBERBATCH: If you want to go about your daily life and not be recognized, I thoroughly recommend having a “no-hawk,” which is what I had and the opposite of a mohawk. You gasped. I had to wear a hat for the duration of the film, which was literally glued to my head when I wasn’t on set. I’ve got this amazing photograph album, where I’d take the hat off and I’d take a photograph of friends and family who I saw over that time, including on my birthday, and it was just a wonderful picture of shock, dismay, horror and confusion. It’s the most wonderful array of human reactions. It’s great.
What was your own reaction to seeing yourself like that?
CUMBERBATCH: I was like, “Well, good, we’re half-way there to looking like him.” I needed to have a good wig on top, to mark out where the hair was being scraped over and where it was going. Once I had done that and the contact lenses, I was happy. I was looking a lit bit more like someone who looks remarkably different to me, even though he’s not that well known to the public. People said, “We’ve cast you, we haven’t cast him. It’s fine. You don’t have to look like him.” And I said, “I think being me, I do have to. I want to step into this person’s skin. I want to feel and look like him. I want to think like him and move like him, and this is part of it. So, I’m gonna do this.” They were like, “Are you sure?” And I said, “Yeah, I really am sure. I have to do it.” But, I’m thrilled with the result.
I'm sure he loved looking horrible and shocking people. Lol. It reminded me of this tweet. The image should be at the end. Look on twitter.