“卷?！保喝艘娙藧鄣拇蟊娗槿?/h1>
2014-06-10 11:20
新東方英語 2014年6期
“卷?！比缃袷羌t遍歐美的一線明星。他憑著超凡的演技、紳士般的風度、
淡定從容的氣質(zhì)及其所飾演的一系列劍走偏鋒的角色贏得了觀眾的喜愛，同時讓人們記住了他那十分拗口的名字——本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇。2013年可謂是“卷?！贝蠹t大紫的一年，他不僅參演了《霍比特人》《星際迷航：暗黑無界》等多部影片并贏得眾多獎項，還登上了《時代周刊》的封面。與他所飾演過的任何角色都不同，現(xiàn)實中的“卷?！遍_朗熱忱、率性可愛、待人真誠，又不失幽默，不愧是人見人愛的大眾情人。
Benedict Cumberbatch sweeps1） into an empty hotel ballroom， cutting a natty figure2） in a black-and-white glen plaid jacket， checked shirt and striped canvas sneakers. “I see you have your festival bag，” he says confidingly， taking note of the crumpled Toronto International Film Festival tote3） at an interlocutors feet. Its a substitute for the one that broke at customs， overstuffed with a laptop and sundry4） travel necessities.
“Thats exactly what happens to me，” he offers enthusiastically. “Because Im packing all the time. Im always killing really perfectly good bits of luggage by shoving5） loads of stuff in them， and then the seams break， handles drop off， you know.”
A Cult Heart-throb
Sure， we know. But， let it be stipulated， no one can really know what its like to be Cumberbatch， who has had a year that has been， well， especially packed. The 37-year-old Brit， who has been a cult heart-throb among the PBS-BBC-plummy6）-literary-adaptation set， played the Necromancer7） in last years Hobbit： An Unexpected Journey. But he truly burst into mass popular consciousness this past summer， when he thoroughly dominated the role of Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness. On Oct. 18， he will star as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate and has supporting roles in two high-profile films arriving soon： 12 Years a Slave， directed by Steve McQueen， and August： Osage County， adapted from Tracy Lettss Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
“A packed year， exactly，” Cumberbatch says with a reflective sigh. “Its been amazing. Its been amazing. But two years really， because Trek we filmed the beginning of last year， and before that—God， it winds back quite a ways. I mean， literally， just sort of the height of what I could ever imagine myself being asked to do as an actor has been going on pretty much now for about four or five years.”
Cumberbatch speaks at a breathless clip8）， his words spilling out in a joyous， oncoming rush that suggests he really is thrilled to be here， however tempting it would be to read his gee-whiz9） protestations as the practiced act of a canny ingenue10）. He is， quite simply—and this is for all those self-proclaimed Cumberbitches11） out there who have designated him an unlikely pin-up12） idol—just as chiseled13）， engaging， well-mannered and disarmingly modest as they imagine in their wintry， wind-tossed fantasies.
A Born Actor
He comes by it honestly. Cumberbatch is the son of two actors—Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham—who grew up in London and is as at home in the posh precincts14） of Burkes Peerage15） （an ancestor was a consul under Queen Victoria） as in the klieg-lighted16） world of Show People. （So how did Cumberbatch end up with his last name？ It was his fathers surname； Carlton a middle name turned stage name. So Benedict has simply reclaimed the family name.） But his career has followed contours that even his parents couldnt prepare him for. Hes done high-profile work in such highly regarded films as Atonement， Tinker， Tailor， Soldier， Spy and War Horse， as well as on television， in Hawking， Sherlock and Parades End. Hes a celebrated figure of the London stage： In 2010 he earned kudos17） for his performance in a revival of Terence Rattigans After the Dance， and the following year he won an Olivier Award18）， for his work in an experimental version of Frankenstein， adapted by Danny Boyle. It was After the Dance， he says， that marked the turning point when the phone started ringing. It hasnt stopped.
“I knew when I started out that I wanted something very different from what Mom and Dad had anyway， but I didnt know quite what—I didnt know how it would manifest—but even they look at it and go， ‘Whoa， ” Cumberbatch says. “Its beyond everyones sort of expectation. But also the workload and everything， its different to their game.”
Its enough to turn a boys head19）. But Cumberbatch， along with such contemporaries as Michael Fassbender20）， is forging the kind of career that actors covet these days， combining recurring roles in huge franchises21） like Star Trek and The Hobbit. His role model， he says， is James McAvoy22） （his one-time co-star in Starter for 10）， who along with Fassbender appears in the X-Men movies.
A Practiced Shape-shifter
“Quite interesting” is an understatement when it comes to Cumberbatchs work， which has found him slipping into23） personae and physical types with the ease of a practiced shape-shifter. Nowhere are his skills in finer form than The Fifth Estate， in which he seamlessly masters Assanges signature Australian accent， lisp24） and fey25）， look-at-me-dont-look-at-me demeanor （admittedly with the help of a blond wig）. Early in the process of making The Fifth Estate， Cumberbatch e-mailed Assange hoping that they could meet. He got no response until the day before shooting began， when Assange sent the actor an email begging him not to do the film.
“I was just doing the last fittings for the wig and makeup and stuff， and this very erudite， charming and lucid and intelligent e-mail [arrived]， imploring my better nature to step away from the project that he thought would be abhorrent and damaging to his cause，” Cumberbatch recalls. “It was a very powerful thing to suddenly land in your inbox.”
Cumberbatch wrote Assange back. “And my response was equally as considered and I hope as charming. I completely respected his point of view， but I really tried to illustrate for him two things： one is that this film is not a documentary； its not a piece of evidence admissible in a court of law， not a factual entity that shifts perceptions or point of view of being the truth； it is a truth.
“Secondly—well， actually， there are three points. Secondly， it is just a film. Its not going to be able to shift perception. Its a film of its own genre [thats] not going to be The Hobbit or Star Trek. Its not going to have a massively popular tidal-wave effect. I really want people to see it， but his fear of it being some mass propaganda tool thats going to damage him was really overstretching the point. And thirdly and most importantly， it was never going to be antithetical to his point of view or vilify26） him. No one was interested in portraying something that was going to tell the audience what to think.”
One result of the exchange was that Cumberbatch became something of Assanges advocate on the set， demanding that his point of view be aired when others had had their say. （The Fifth Estate is based on the accounts of two disaffected27） former Assange colleagues， Daniel Domscheit-Berg and Guardian investigative journalist David Leigh.） “It was great， because it was sort of like having Julian there，” says The Fifth Estate director Bill Condon. “This was a movie where there was more conversation about the context of scenes than almost any Ive done， which was really stimulating. Because it forced you to look for the 10th， 11th， 12th time at the validity of what you were dramatizing.”
Cumberbatch admits now that he was “really kind of winded” by Assanges last-minute plea. Condon recalls his frustration at not being able to stop the correspondence， which was clearly rattling28） his leading man. “I realized what an unfair position it put him in， in a way he didnt even understand. Can you imagine？ Its almost like being schizophrenic. Because youre walking around thinking like a person whos also saying， ‘Dont be me. Ive talked to him about it and he said， ‘I wanted to take that on because its part of understanding his predicament. I think hes right， but I still feel like I saw the torment that it put him through.”
Now， a few days after The Fifth Estate made its world premiere as the opening night film in Toronto， Cumberbatch shows no sign of torment. Far from it. One minute hes fondly recalling how he danced with Fassbender （a.k.a. “Fassy”） at the 12 Years a Slave party the night before； the next， hes sharing warm memories of living in Los Angeles while filming Star Trek， hanging with best friend Adam Ackland （grandson of actor Joss）， lifelong mate Tertius Bune and Starter for 10 and Trek co-star Alice Eve. Hell be flying back to London soon to begin rehearsals with Keira Knightley for The Imitation Game， about encryption specialist Alan Turing29）； hes also agreed to star in the action adventure The Lost City of Z， produced by his 12 Years producer Brad Pitt.
“I love it. Im really enjoying it，” he says of the red-carpet-lets-take-a-meeting-flavor-of-the-moment whirl. He loves L.A.； he loves Pitt and his production company， Plan B； he loves New York and wants to work there one day； and he really loves London， especially his neighborhood near Hampstead Heath. “I go running and swimming there； its fantastic，” he says， those words still coming in a bubbling rush. “Its a beautiful， neighborly part of the world as well—families， its quiet， especially during the night， its gorgeous. Its a really nice place to go home to.”
As for the foreseeable future， though， Cumberbatch is cheerfully resigned. “I dont know，” he says with a barely fatigued sigh. “Have suitcase will travel.” Bursting seams and all.
身著黑白色格倫花格呢夾克和格子襯衫，腳踩一雙條紋帆布鞋，本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇昂首闊步地走進賓館空蕩蕩的舞廳，顯得整潔時髦。他注意到某人腳邊放著一只弄皺了的多倫多國際電影節(jié)手提袋，便用信任的口吻對那人說：“我看到你的電影節(jié)手提袋了。”那是用來替換在海關(guān)壞掉的那只袋子的，里面塞滿了雜七雜八的旅行必需品，還有一臺筆記本電腦。
“其實我也遇到過這種情況，”他熱情主動地說，“因為我總在不停地打點行李。再好、再完美的行李箱都能被我撐破，里面總是塞得滿滿當當?shù)模Y(jié)果不是縫合線繃了，就是把手掉了，你懂的?！?/p>
大眾情人人人愛
我們當然懂啦。但有一點要講明，沒人能真正知道作為康伯巴奇的真實感受。在過去的一年里，他的日程一直被排得，呃，像行李箱一樣滿滿當當。在美國公共廣播公司和英國廣播公司最棒的文學改編圈里，這位37歲（編注：英文原文發(fā)表于2013年10月）的英國人一直是人見人愛的大眾情人，他在去年拍攝的《霍比特人：意外之旅》中扮演了死靈法師的角色。但在剛剛過去的這個夏天，他非常成功地扮演了《星際迷航：暗黑無界》中可汗的角色，真正闖入了大眾的心中。今年10月18日，他將在《第五階層》中飾演主角——維基解密的創(chuàng)始人朱利安·阿桑奇。此外，他還在兩部備受矚目、即將上映的影片中扮演了配角：由史蒂夫·麥克奎恩執(zhí)導的《為奴十二年》以及改編自特雷西·萊茨榮獲普利策獎的戲劇《八月：奧色治郡》。
“真是滿滿當當?shù)囊荒臧?！”康伯巴奇若有所思地嘆了口氣說，“不可思議，不可思議??！不過其實應該是兩年，因為《星際迷航》是我們在去年年初開拍的，而在那之前，天哪，這要倒回到很久以前了。我是說，毫不夸張地說，我所能夠想象的自己作為一名演員能被要求達到的那種高度，迄今持續(xù)了差不多四五年的時間?！?/p>
康伯巴奇說起話來語速飛快，似乎都不用喘氣，一串串單詞歡快地噴涌而出，連綿不絕，這表明他此時此刻的確非常激動，雖然人們常忍不住將這種夸張的言辭解讀為一個精明的初出茅廬者訓練有素的行為。那些自封為“康伯碧池”的粉絲們把他定位為另類的海報偶像，對她們來說，他非常簡單，就是那么棱角分明，那么瀟灑迷人，那么文雅有禮，那么謙虛有度，足以讓任何人放下戒心—— 一切都宛若她們那在寒冷冬日里隨風飄擺的幻想。
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“卷?！比缃袷羌t遍歐美的一線明星。他憑著超凡的演技、紳士般的風度、
淡定從容的氣質(zhì)及其所飾演的一系列劍走偏鋒的角色贏得了觀眾的喜愛，同時讓人們記住了他那十分拗口的名字——本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇。2013年可謂是“卷?！贝蠹t大紫的一年，他不僅參演了《霍比特人》《星際迷航：暗黑無界》等多部影片并贏得眾多獎項，還登上了《時代周刊》的封面。與他所飾演過的任何角色都不同，現(xiàn)實中的“卷?！遍_朗熱忱、率性可愛、待人真誠，又不失幽默，不愧是人見人愛的大眾情人。
Benedict Cumberbatch sweeps1） into an empty hotel ballroom， cutting a natty figure2） in a black-and-white glen plaid jacket， checked shirt and striped canvas sneakers. “I see you have your festival bag，” he says confidingly， taking note of the crumpled Toronto International Film Festival tote3） at an interlocutors feet. Its a substitute for the one that broke at customs， overstuffed with a laptop and sundry4） travel necessities.
“Thats exactly what happens to me，” he offers enthusiastically. “Because Im packing all the time. Im always killing really perfectly good bits of luggage by shoving5） loads of stuff in them， and then the seams break， handles drop off， you know.”
A Cult Heart-throb
Sure， we know. But， let it be stipulated， no one can really know what its like to be Cumberbatch， who has had a year that has been， well， especially packed. The 37-year-old Brit， who has been a cult heart-throb among the PBS-BBC-plummy6）-literary-adaptation set， played the Necromancer7） in last years Hobbit： An Unexpected Journey. But he truly burst into mass popular consciousness this past summer， when he thoroughly dominated the role of Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness. On Oct. 18， he will star as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate and has supporting roles in two high-profile films arriving soon： 12 Years a Slave， directed by Steve McQueen， and August： Osage County， adapted from Tracy Lettss Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
“A packed year， exactly，” Cumberbatch says with a reflective sigh. “Its been amazing. Its been amazing. But two years really， because Trek we filmed the beginning of last year， and before that—God， it winds back quite a ways. I mean， literally， just sort of the height of what I could ever imagine myself being asked to do as an actor has been going on pretty much now for about four or five years.”
Cumberbatch speaks at a breathless clip8）， his words spilling out in a joyous， oncoming rush that suggests he really is thrilled to be here， however tempting it would be to read his gee-whiz9） protestations as the practiced act of a canny ingenue10）. He is， quite simply—and this is for all those self-proclaimed Cumberbitches11） out there who have designated him an unlikely pin-up12） idol—just as chiseled13）， engaging， well-mannered and disarmingly modest as they imagine in their wintry， wind-tossed fantasies.
A Born Actor
He comes by it honestly. Cumberbatch is the son of two actors—Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham—who grew up in London and is as at home in the posh precincts14） of Burkes Peerage15） （an ancestor was a consul under Queen Victoria） as in the klieg-lighted16） world of Show People. （So how did Cumberbatch end up with his last name？ It was his fathers surname； Carlton a middle name turned stage name. So Benedict has simply reclaimed the family name.） But his career has followed contours that even his parents couldnt prepare him for. Hes done high-profile work in such highly regarded films as Atonement， Tinker， Tailor， Soldier， Spy and War Horse， as well as on television， in Hawking， Sherlock and Parades End. Hes a celebrated figure of the London stage： In 2010 he earned kudos17） for his performance in a revival of Terence Rattigans After the Dance， and the following year he won an Olivier Award18）， for his work in an experimental version of Frankenstein， adapted by Danny Boyle. It was After the Dance， he says， that marked the turning point when the phone started ringing. It hasnt stopped.
“I knew when I started out that I wanted something very different from what Mom and Dad had anyway， but I didnt know quite what—I didnt know how it would manifest—but even they look at it and go， ‘Whoa， ” Cumberbatch says. “Its beyond everyones sort of expectation. But also the workload and everything， its different to their game.”
Its enough to turn a boys head19）. But Cumberbatch， along with such contemporaries as Michael Fassbender20）， is forging the kind of career that actors covet these days， combining recurring roles in huge franchises21） like Star Trek and The Hobbit. His role model， he says， is James McAvoy22） （his one-time co-star in Starter for 10）， who along with Fassbender appears in the X-Men movies.
A Practiced Shape-shifter
“Quite interesting” is an understatement when it comes to Cumberbatchs work， which has found him slipping into23） personae and physical types with the ease of a practiced shape-shifter. Nowhere are his skills in finer form than The Fifth Estate， in which he seamlessly masters Assanges signature Australian accent， lisp24） and fey25）， look-at-me-dont-look-at-me demeanor （admittedly with the help of a blond wig）. Early in the process of making The Fifth Estate， Cumberbatch e-mailed Assange hoping that they could meet. He got no response until the day before shooting began， when Assange sent the actor an email begging him not to do the film.
“I was just doing the last fittings for the wig and makeup and stuff， and this very erudite， charming and lucid and intelligent e-mail [arrived]， imploring my better nature to step away from the project that he thought would be abhorrent and damaging to his cause，” Cumberbatch recalls. “It was a very powerful thing to suddenly land in your inbox.”
Cumberbatch wrote Assange back. “And my response was equally as considered and I hope as charming. I completely respected his point of view， but I really tried to illustrate for him two things： one is that this film is not a documentary； its not a piece of evidence admissible in a court of law， not a factual entity that shifts perceptions or point of view of being the truth； it is a truth.
“Secondly—well， actually， there are three points. Secondly， it is just a film. Its not going to be able to shift perception. Its a film of its own genre [thats] not going to be The Hobbit or Star Trek. Its not going to have a massively popular tidal-wave effect. I really want people to see it， but his fear of it being some mass propaganda tool thats going to damage him was really overstretching the point. And thirdly and most importantly， it was never going to be antithetical to his point of view or vilify26） him. No one was interested in portraying something that was going to tell the audience what to think.”
One result of the exchange was that Cumberbatch became something of Assanges advocate on the set， demanding that his point of view be aired when others had had their say. （The Fifth Estate is based on the accounts of two disaffected27） former Assange colleagues， Daniel Domscheit-Berg and Guardian investigative journalist David Leigh.） “It was great， because it was sort of like having Julian there，” says The Fifth Estate director Bill Condon. “This was a movie where there was more conversation about the context of scenes than almost any Ive done， which was really stimulating. Because it forced you to look for the 10th， 11th， 12th time at the validity of what you were dramatizing.”
Cumberbatch admits now that he was “really kind of winded” by Assanges last-minute plea. Condon recalls his frustration at not being able to stop the correspondence， which was clearly rattling28） his leading man. “I realized what an unfair position it put him in， in a way he didnt even understand. Can you imagine？ Its almost like being schizophrenic. Because youre walking around thinking like a person whos also saying， ‘Dont be me. Ive talked to him about it and he said， ‘I wanted to take that on because its part of understanding his predicament. I think hes right， but I still feel like I saw the torment that it put him through.”
Now， a few days after The Fifth Estate made its world premiere as the opening night film in Toronto， Cumberbatch shows no sign of torment. Far from it. One minute hes fondly recalling how he danced with Fassbender （a.k.a. “Fassy”） at the 12 Years a Slave party the night before； the next， hes sharing warm memories of living in Los Angeles while filming Star Trek， hanging with best friend Adam Ackland （grandson of actor Joss）， lifelong mate Tertius Bune and Starter for 10 and Trek co-star Alice Eve. Hell be flying back to London soon to begin rehearsals with Keira Knightley for The Imitation Game， about encryption specialist Alan Turing29）； hes also agreed to star in the action adventure The Lost City of Z， produced by his 12 Years producer Brad Pitt.
“I love it. Im really enjoying it，” he says of the red-carpet-lets-take-a-meeting-flavor-of-the-moment whirl. He loves L.A.； he loves Pitt and his production company， Plan B； he loves New York and wants to work there one day； and he really loves London， especially his neighborhood near Hampstead Heath. “I go running and swimming there； its fantastic，” he says， those words still coming in a bubbling rush. “Its a beautiful， neighborly part of the world as well—families， its quiet， especially during the night， its gorgeous. Its a really nice place to go home to.”
As for the foreseeable future， though， Cumberbatch is cheerfully resigned. “I dont know，” he says with a barely fatigued sigh. “Have suitcase will travel.” Bursting seams and all.
身著黑白色格倫花格呢夾克和格子襯衫，腳踩一雙條紋帆布鞋，本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇昂首闊步地走進賓館空蕩蕩的舞廳，顯得整潔時髦。他注意到某人腳邊放著一只弄皺了的多倫多國際電影節(jié)手提袋，便用信任的口吻對那人說：“我看到你的電影節(jié)手提袋了。”那是用來替換在海關(guān)壞掉的那只袋子的，里面塞滿了雜七雜八的旅行必需品，還有一臺筆記本電腦。
“其實我也遇到過這種情況，”他熱情主動地說，“因為我總在不停地打點行李。再好、再完美的行李箱都能被我撐破，里面總是塞得滿滿當當?shù)模Y(jié)果不是縫合線繃了，就是把手掉了，你懂的?！?/p>
大眾情人人人愛
我們當然懂啦。但有一點要講明，沒人能真正知道作為康伯巴奇的真實感受。在過去的一年里，他的日程一直被排得，呃，像行李箱一樣滿滿當當。在美國公共廣播公司和英國廣播公司最棒的文學改編圈里，這位37歲（編注：英文原文發(fā)表于2013年10月）的英國人一直是人見人愛的大眾情人，他在去年拍攝的《霍比特人：意外之旅》中扮演了死靈法師的角色。但在剛剛過去的這個夏天，他非常成功地扮演了《星際迷航：暗黑無界》中可汗的角色，真正闖入了大眾的心中。今年10月18日，他將在《第五階層》中飾演主角——維基解密的創(chuàng)始人朱利安·阿桑奇。此外，他還在兩部備受矚目、即將上映的影片中扮演了配角：由史蒂夫·麥克奎恩執(zhí)導的《為奴十二年》以及改編自特雷西·萊茨榮獲普利策獎的戲劇《八月：奧色治郡》。
“真是滿滿當當?shù)囊荒臧?！”康伯巴奇若有所思地嘆了口氣說，“不可思議，不可思議??！不過其實應該是兩年，因為《星際迷航》是我們在去年年初開拍的，而在那之前，天哪，這要倒回到很久以前了。我是說，毫不夸張地說，我所能夠想象的自己作為一名演員能被要求達到的那種高度，迄今持續(xù)了差不多四五年的時間?！?/p>
康伯巴奇說起話來語速飛快，似乎都不用喘氣，一串串單詞歡快地噴涌而出，連綿不絕，這表明他此時此刻的確非常激動，雖然人們常忍不住將這種夸張的言辭解讀為一個精明的初出茅廬者訓練有素的行為。那些自封為“康伯碧池”的粉絲們把他定位為另類的海報偶像，對她們來說，他非常簡單，就是那么棱角分明，那么瀟灑迷人，那么文雅有禮，那么謙虛有度，足以讓任何人放下戒心—— 一切都宛若她們那在寒冷冬日里隨風飄擺的幻想。
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