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10 декабря Бенедикт принял участие в мероприятии Letters Live.

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Бенедикт читает письмо Алана Тюринга




письмо Алана Тьюринга
My dear Norman,

I don’t think I really do know much about jobs, except the one I had during the war, and that certainly did not involve any travelling. I think they do take on conscripts. It certainly involved a good deal of hard thinking, but whether you’d be interested I don’t know. Philip Hall was in the same racket and on the whole, I should say, he didn’t care for it. However I am not at present in a state in which I am able to concentrate well, for reasons explained in the next paragraph.

I’ve now got myself into the kind of trouble that I have always considered to be quite a possibility for me, though I have usually rated it at about 10:1 against. I shall shortly be pleading guilty to a charge of sexual offences with a young man. The story of how it all came to be found out is a long and fascinating one, which I shall have to make into a short story one day, but haven’t the time to tell you now. No doubt I shall emerge from it all a different man, but quite who I’ve not found out.

Glad you enjoyed broadcast. Jefferson certainly was rather disappointing though. I’m afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future.

Turing believes machines think
Turing lies with men
Therefore machines do not think

Yours in distress,

Alan

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"Letters Live.

Tonight I was at The Tabernacle in west London for this event, presented by Canongate books, a fundraiser for The Reading Agency. Inspired by two recently published books, Simon Garfield’s To The Letter and Shaun Usher’s Letters Of Note (which, incidentally, you may find are the best two books of the year).
The title of the event can be read two ways: Letters Live, as in, letters being read out in front of an audience. Or, Letters Live, as in, they are alive. Both are apt. I prefer the latter.
From Charles Dickens’ correspondence to The Times newspaper in 1849, a visceral response to witnessing the baying mob at a public execution to a 20-year-old David Bowie’s naive reply to his first American fanmail, the letters read (sometimes performed) tonight were moving, uplifting, funny, touching and inspiring.
By the interval I’d already wept at Katharine Hepburn’s letter to her lifelong companion, Spencer Tracy, written ‘to’ him 16 years after his death. By the time Juliet Stevenson read Virginia Woolf’s suicide note, found by her husband Leonard on the mantelpiece, too late, I was in bits. Nick Cave sang Love Letter, just to rub it in.
The highlight of the night was undoubtedly the slow-burning relationship between two strangers in 1944-45: Christopher, a soldier serving in North Africa, and Bessie, a Londoner living through the Blitz. Performed by Kerry Fox and Benedict Cumberbatch, their intense courtship, conducted entirely through the post, was brought vividly to life. Often very funny, sometimes heart-breaking, their letters are of a time gone forever, replaced by a text, an email, or a straight-to-the-point Snapchat. I could listen to their story all night.
As it was, the breadth of stories tonight was fascinating: Jack the Ripper, Kurt Vonnegut, Beethoven, Bowie, Charles Bukowski, Alan Turing, Dorothy Parker and Nick Cave reading his own letter, sent to MTV in 1996 on the occasion of his nomination as Best Male Artist, “alongside George Michael”.
The readers were: Bruce Robinson, Matt Berry, Gillian Anderson, Neil Gaiman, Colin Salmon, Juliet Stevenson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kerry Fox, Nick Cave, James Rhodes, Peter Serafinowicz, DBC Pierre and Louis Howell.
More events are taking place across the country in 2014 and you can sign up for alerts here: http://www.canongate.tv/discover/sign-up-for-letters-live-news/ "

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Интервью Бенедикта Камбербэтча TODAY, взятое в туалете.

A dragon named Smaug and the writer who stalked him



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by Phin Wong

In a career first, dear readers, I bring you an interview from a toilet.

“Oh, hello,” I said, rather uncomfortably, to the man emerging from the cubicle.

“Oh … Hi.” replied Benedict Cumberbatch, a little taken aback.

We stood next to each other at the restroom sink of The Beverly Hilton, washing our hands quietly, as if respectfully waiting for Yo Yo Ma to hit the stage with Beethoven’s Symphony No 9.

Cumberbatch was in Los Angeles to promote The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug, the second film in Peter Jackson’s Tolkien trilogy, along with his fellow cast members. We had just been chatting jauntily during a sanctioned interview earlier that morning at the ballroom, but now, as the hum of the hand-dryer from the last person to vacate the men’s room died out in the background, there was not so much as a wisp of muzak to fill the silence.

Make conversation, I told myself: Talk to him about his motion-capture performance as the fearsome, fire-breathing dragon. I opened my mouth to speak but thankfully stopped in time before blurting: “Good heavens, your Smaug is huge!” Context, as always, is everything.

Finally, the Englishman — polite to a fault, in a sharp navy suit — broke the awkward silence. “What I was trying to tell you about Martin,” said Cumberbatch, “is that he makes me laugh when he gets angry”.

Martin Freeman, his co-star in both the Hobbit film and the television series Sherlock, and his penchant for flipping the bird had been the topic of our conversation during our interview.

“That must not help the situation,” I said, still washing my hands like an OCD Lady Macbeth. One does not want to be just hanging out in the men’s room doing nothing.

“No, it doesn’t,” said Cumberbatch, smiling deviously, before disappearing through the door with a friendly wave goodbye.

And that concludes the surreptitious, hard-won bathroom exclusive I call Tinkle Tailor Soldier Spy.


ENTER THE DRAGON
The air was unusually dry that California morning, causing the cast of Smaug to replenish their fluids with an unusually large amount of water. Like Sherlock, I deduced this from the clues in front of me. But mainly from the fact that everyone seemed to need to tinkle whenever I was in the room. Cumberbatch asked for a “pee-pee break” (“Oops, I did not mean for you to hear that,” he said, shyly), Evangeline Lilly dashed out of the room once I took my seat, and Luke Evans left to water the petunias when he heard the journalist from Singapore was next. Perhaps our reputation as the venue of the first World Toilet Summit precedes us.

In between draining the dragon, however, I managed to talk to the actors about the challenges of bringing a great dragon to life.

For Cumberbatch, inhabiting the role of “a most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm” — Tolkien’s words, not mine — required not just voice acting, but an entire motion-capture performance. “It is great. You are so free to play and imagine the world, because, obviously, you really have to do that as a mammal playing a reptile,” said the 37-year-old actor. “It was important for me to physicalise his voice, to inhabit his movements a little bit, so I gave the boys at Weta something to work with, to springboard off.” Weta Workshop is the Oscar-winning New Zealand studio responsible for the special effects seen in all the Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings films.

“You can see little bits of my movements and little bits of my face as well, because they did a separate motion capture of my face,” he said.

Richard Armitage, who plays Thorin, the main dwarf on a mission to reclaim the Dwarven stronghold of Erebor from Smaug, was able to watch Cumberbatch at work. “He (created) a complete physical performance to create muscularity in his voice,” he said. “There’s such intellect in Benedict’s voice, which I think is making the dragon something that’s beyond everyone’s imagination.”

Freeman’s Bilbo Baggins, the titular Hobbit in the trilogy, also shares considerable screen time conversing with and scurrying frantically from the digital dragon. “We didn’t cross over, unfortunately,” he said about not actually getting to perform a scene with Cumberbatch. “His lines are being read in, and I’m looking at tennis balls.”

Not that Jackson didn’t try to reunite the Sherlock co-stars in New Zealand. “We tried”, said the director, “but the schedules never worked”.

“The only thing I kinda regretted about the job,” continued Cumberbatch, “was not being able to be in the same space as him.”

“But it’s also great to have a little break from (Martin),” teased Jackson.

“Oh, yeah. Everyone needs a little break from him,” deadpanned Sherlock.


THE DESOLATION OF PETER JACKSON
Working with Peter Jackson, on a Tolkien film, in New Zealand — after the phenomenal success of the Lord Of The Rings films, which together racked up almost US$3 billion (S$3.75 billion) at the box office — was everything an actor could have hoped it would be, said Luke Evans.

“It was a real gift to get to do all of those things,” said the 34-year-old Welsh actor, who plays Bard The Bowman. “It was a wonderful experience.”

Yes, on all accounts, working on The Hobbit was heaven. The actors should know, seeing as one of them was very nearly sent there.

Armitage was, in Jackson’s words, “sucked into a whirlpool” while shooting one of the film’s main action sequences, where the dwarves go tumbling down a roaring river — in dinky wooden barrels.

The sequence was completed using footage shot at both a studio where two V8 jet engines powered a raging water channel, and an actual location, the Pelorus River in Malborough — a spot Jackson vacationed at with his family when he was a child. “Richard would say it’s fast, but it’s a slow moving river,” said the director.

“We were in a river with a current having great fun overtaking each other and seeing who would get to the end first,” said Armitage of the shoot’s pleasant beginnings. “But in the same sequence, I was dragged under by that current when I got out of the barrel.”

“Never get out of a barrel dressed in a very porous, spongy costume in water that will drag you underneath,” he said, laughing.

“We had to send a couple of stunt guys up to drag him out,” said Jackson. “I’m serious! Don’t laugh — it wasn’t funny. Gosh, it wasn’t funny at all. I thought I’d have to play Thorin from that point on!”


TOLKIEN, WHO?
Near-fatal incidents aside, it seems the key to surviving an epic action-adventure film on this scale is Jackson himself. As Evans told TODAY: “He trusts us and we trust him.”

For Evangeline Lilly, who plays elf warrior Tauriel — a completely new addition to the series — it was Jackson’s sense of humour that did the trick. “Peter is one of the funniest people I know. He has zero respect for the craft of acting,” she said, laughing. “It’s wonderful! There’s no pressure!”

“For me, when people treat acting like a secret art, what it says is what you’re about to do is magic. And I’m like, ‘I don’t know how to do magic! That’s terrifying!’ But Peter and I would just make fun of each other and just goof around, sometimes right till the point he would say, ‘action’. I feel like he was able to bring out some of my best performances,” said the former Lost actress. (Lilly, by the way, also suffered an on-set mishap — “There was one time I got really whacked over the head. Like, hard to the point that I almost passed out … I was seeing stars and the little birdies!”).

“It’s feeling comfortable to take risks,” said Cumberbatch — post-pee-pee-break, a day after our hand-washing encounter — of the Jackson Experience.

“You’re in the hands of a master — somebody who makes it so easy, convivial, familial, humorous and fun. It just facilitates you to not feel like too much of a twit when you’re running around, in my case, in a mo-cap (motion-capture) suit, pretending to be a fire-breathing worm. And you feel free to do that with him.”

For Jackson, his long, arduous, occasionally treacherous journey through Middle Earth — an adventure that began two decades ago, when he and producing partner Fran Walsh were in the infancy stages of getting The Lord Of The Rings off the ground — is worth all the Orc-stacles (that would be Orc-related obstacles, thank you) in the world. And it’s not because of one J R R Tolkien.

“It’s not particularly Tolkien, I have to say. And what I mean by that is that I grew up loving the escapism and magic of film. I grew up (watching) King Kong, Ray Harryhausen, Jason And the Argonauts … I just love escapism,” said the 52-year-old director. “I just thought, ‘This is what I like.’ You know, having a miserable time in school, and you go home and you can watch something that sweeps you away to a fantastical place. For me, that was always the attraction of film.”

“If it is 20 years of Tolkien, it’s 20 years of doing what I dreamt of doing when I was nine or 10 years old. I mean, how lucky is that? How many people get to do that? I’m very, very fortunate.”

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Sherlock newcomer Amanda Abbington: ‘They knew my chemistry with Martin Freeman would be good’

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Martin Freeman’s partner Amanda Abbington has landed a part in Sherlock – but it’s not nepotism.

‘I’ve already had the nepotism label thrown at me, big time,’ laughs Amanda Abbington when I ask her whether being Martin Freeman’s partner had anything to do with landing the part of Dr Watson’s new wife in Sherlock. ‘It started on Twitter right away. It was: “OMG she’s awful.” I know I’m not going to be to everybody’s taste but hopefully some people will think I’m good.’

Many people already do, most importantly Sherlock creative duo Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffatt, who wrote the part of Mary Morstan for Abbington. She readily admits it was a massive vote of confidence for an actress until recently more noted for comedy roles than straight drama. Landing Sherlock comes hot on the heels of playing the repressed Miss Mardle in Mr Selfridge.

‘Well, they knew my chemistry with Martin would be good,’ she says. ‘Well, if it wasn’t, there’d be a problem! They were sat at our house and I asked who they had in mind for Mary and when they said “you!” it blew me away.’

MORE: ‘They’re not fans’: Martin Freeman hits back at Sherlock Twitter trolls who targeted Amanda Abbington

You probably know Abbington’s face, if not her name. As funny in person as she is on screen – it’s well worth following her tweets @chimpsinsocks – she was part of TV sketch comedy show Man Stroke Woman.

She also became a confectionery ad legend as half of the Maltesers double act, joined by The IT Crowd’s Katherine Parkinson in a series of ‘naughty’ skits, memorably arranging their settee-sprawling sleeping boyfriends in a bromantic clinch. Talking of bromances, was she worried about coming between the simmering subtext that is Holmes and Watson?

‘It was daunting because Martin and Benedict [Cumberbatch] do have such amazing chemistry,’ she says. ‘And there’s such a thing about those two on the internet – fans who are obsessed with the idea of those two being together. But Mary doesn’t come between them in a negative way – she doesn’t destroy their relationship. A lot of Sherlock Holmes fans don’t like Mary in the books but she’s an interesting character to play – she’s very feisty.’

Beyond that, Abbington can’t be pressed on plot points. But she can’t hedge too much around the feverish speculation that greeted leaked pictures of her, in Sherlock character, sporting a wedding dress: the secret was out. Was it odd getting married on screen to your real-life partner when the two of you aren’t married in real life?

‘I think it’s the third time I’ve married Martin on screen,’ she says. ‘We’ve been there and done that, the real thing would be a bit boring. When we’re doing it, we kind of look each other and think: “Let’s not.” We’ll either stay together or we’ll split up. Marriage doesn’t change that.’

The pair met on the set of movie Men Only in 2000 and have two children, Joe and Grace.

‘I’ve never really wanted to get married to anybody, it’s never appealed to me,’ she admits frankly. ‘I don’t really see the point. It’s more of a commitment to have a house and furniture and kids together. I’ve never had the belief that a piece of paper will keep you together.’

Their relationship did feel the strain while Freeman was away in New Zealand filming The Hobbit.

‘That was the longest period apart, four months,’ she says. ‘We were Skyping but he’d just be getting up and I was ready for bed. You were never in sync. You start to think like a single parent and Martin was behaving like a single person. We were trying to find our places in the relationship. We won’t do that again.’

She says that confidently but with her own career accelerating at a rate of knots, there might be tough choices ahead. She’s been relishing the chance to flex her straight acting muscles and Mary could become an ongoing character in Sherlock. There’s nothing remotely luvvie about Abbington but she says working on Sherlock, particularly with Freeman, has been a dream.

‘He’s always a joy to work with but then I would say that, wouldn’t I?’ she says. ‘I know I am biased but he’s really interesting as an actor, he brings something different to the table.’

She wouldn’t be human, though, if you hadn’t cast envious glances at his success. ‘No, it’s not as if we’re up for the same parts. I’ve never been jealous of his career, even though I had no work for 18 months after we met. He’s worked incredibly hard to get where he is. I’ve never felt anything but pride.

Though she bagged parts in British TV mainstays such as Casualty and The Bill, Abbington’s big breakthrough is long overdue.

‘I used to take everything personally but since I’ve had children, they come first,’ she says. ‘Ironically, when you start caring not so much about rejection you relax, your confidence grows and the parts come to you. You feel you can stand up and say: “I have a right to be here.”’

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