{"id":210191,"date":"2014-05-22T16:19:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T16:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/22\/skulls-and-tea-ifyouhaveenoughnerve\/"},"modified":"2014-05-22T16:19:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T16:19:16","slug":"skulls-and-tea-ifyouhaveenoughnerve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/22\/skulls-and-tea-ifyouhaveenoughnerve\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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ifyouhaveenoughnerve<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Johnlock: The Acting and What it Means for TJLC<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let me tell you a story. It\u2019s about acting. It\u2019s been told quite a lot, and the exact quotes change each time it gets told, but the punchline is always the same.<\/p>\n

Dustin Hoffman and Sir Laurence Olivier are on the set of the Marathon Man. Hoffman\u2019s character has stayed up three nights, so Hoffman walks onto the set after 3 days without sleep to be more realistic. Olivier, concerned, asks him why he looks so tired. Hoffman tells him. Olivier is very surprised. After a moment, he replies, \u201cTry acting, dear boy\u2026it\u2019s much easier.\u201d<\/p>\n

What does this have to do with Johnlock? Everything.<\/p>\n

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\u2026IT\u2019S FULL OF STARS<\/strike> QUOTES<\/p>\n

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I MUST SOURCE THEM<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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“There\u2019s a great charge you get from playing him, because of the volume of words in your head and the speed of thought \u2013 you really have to make your connections incredibly fast. He is one step ahead of the audience, and of anyone around him with normal intellect. They can\u2019t quite fathom where his leaps are taking him. Zip zip zip. But you catch me in the car on the way home after and I am, \u2018Whoahhh!\u2019” He does a theatrical wilt in his chair.“<\/strong><\/p>\n

(The Guardian interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, July 2010 [x<\/a><\/strong>])<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cit doesn\u2019t mean that I do a lot of good takes, it just means I like doing a lot of takes. And various rhythms come in with different characters and situations\u2026it\u2019s the 18th<\/sup>\u00a0[take] sometimes. I can\u2019t remember what my record is, it\u2019s pretty heinous.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Benedict Cumberbatch: In Conversation for BAFTA New York, February 2014 [x<\/a><\/strong>])<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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"My default state is wariness.” <\/strong><\/p>\n

(Martin Freeman, The Daily Mail, November 2009 [x<\/a><\/strong>])<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cMartin and I didn\u2019t really know each other before Sherlock, but he walked into the audition and he raised my game.\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n

(Benedict Cumberbatch for What\u2019s On TV, December 2013 [x<\/a><\/strong>])<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cMartin did this amazing thing of having a military bearing<\/em>. It\u2019s something that\u2019s in the [Conan Doyle] stories all the time. Sherlock\u2019s always deducing things in the original stories based on people\u2019s military bearing, and you think\u2014\u2018What is that?\u2019 Martin came in and did<\/em> it\u2014\u2018Oh look, he\u2019s a soldier<\/em>.\u2019 He looks, he stands<\/em> like a soldier. Everything about it worked.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(Mark Gatiss, Sherlock: Anatomy of a Hit [x<\/a><\/strong>])<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve got a pretty good musical ear and I can pick things up. But that wasn\u2019t going to be good enough. I really wanted to do it justice. Not do it as a sketch: \u201cOh yah!\u201d So I worked hard at it. I stayed in the accent all day on set. You\u2019ve got to make it a habit, get that muscle memory.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say but it\u2019s true. I like the odd day on my own in the course of a film because you\u2019ve got complete control and you can indulge yourself and all that sort of stuff. But the best work comes out of at least another person being in the room.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Martin Freeman, The Guardian April 2014 [x<\/a><\/strong>])<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

skulls-and-tea: ifyouhaveenoughnerve: Johnlock: The Acting and What it Means for TJLC Let me tell you a story. It\u2019s about acting. It\u2019s been told quite a lot, and the exact quotes change each time it gets told, but the punchline is always the same. Dustin Hoffman and Sir Laurence Olivier are on the set of the … <\/p>\n

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