{"id":53923,"date":"2012-03-01T02:15:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T07:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=53923"},"modified":"2012-03-01T02:15:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T07:15:50","slug":"benedict-cumberbatch-talks-voice-work-and-mo-cap-for-smaug-necromancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/03\/01\/53923-benedict-cumberbatch-talks-voice-work-and-mo-cap-for-smaug-necromancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedict Cumberbatch talks Voice Work and Mo-Cap for Smaug, Necromancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/06\/17\/45214-deadline-com-exclusive-benedict-cumberbatch-voicing-smaug-and-the-necromancer\/benedict-cumberbatch\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45215\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-45215 no-lazyload\" title=\"Benedict Cumberbatch\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Benedict-Cumberbatch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a>Speaking with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1680152\/the-hobbit-movie-stars.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">MTV <\/a>about\u00a0working with <strong>Peter Jackson<\/strong> on <strong>The Hobbit<\/strong>, actor\u00a0<strong>Benedict Cumberbatch <\/strong>(who&#8217;s been\u00a0cast in the role of both\u00a0<strong>Smaug<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>The Necromancer<\/strong>)\u00a0dished a bit about the work he&#8217;s done thus far on the films.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpts follow:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">I was in isolation with [Peter Jackson] and this incredible tag team. And at the very cool place with that technology doing mo-cap for two characters, Smaug the dragon and another character, which will remain nameless, and it was an awful lot of fun.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">I spent a lot of time recording voice as well as doing movements. So, it was sort of freeing; it was fun. It was like playing a game. It&#8217;s going to be an amazing film; it&#8217;s going to be a real treat.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Catch the entire interview over at MTV. Many thanks to message board member <strong>f00<\/strong> for the heads-up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking with MTV about\u00a0working with Peter Jackson on The Hobbit, actor\u00a0Benedict Cumberbatch (who&#8217;s been\u00a0cast in the role of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1506,499,1300,4,74,496,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedict-cumberbatch","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-jackson","category-production","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-e1J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53925,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53923\/revisions\/53925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}