{"id":60757,"date":"2012-08-11T20:23:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T01:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=60757"},"modified":"2012-08-11T20:23:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T01:23:24","slug":"the-telegraph-speaks-with-benedict-cumberbatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/08\/11\/60757-the-telegraph-speaks-with-benedict-cumberbatch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Telegraph speaks with Benedict Cumberbatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Benedict-Cumberbatch.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" class=\"no-lazyload\">Benjamin Secher of The Telegraph recently interviewed Benedict Cumberbatch. In today&#8217;s online edition, the Tele published a wide-ranging story where Cumberbatch speaks at length about his career to date, and his latest effort as a &#8220;repressed civil servant&#8221; in Parade&#8217;s End. <\/p>\n<p>We get a bit more information on Smaug in The Hobbit, and how Cumberbatch played the role. For those just keen on reading Hobbit <font color=\"red\">spoilers<\/font>, highlight the bit just below!<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ffffff\">&#8220;Filming The Hobbit brought challenges of a different kind. Although he plays two roles, a necromancer and Smaug (a fantastical villain he describes with undisguised glee as &#8216;a 400-year-old fire-breathing worm who lives in the middle of a mountain on top of a pile of gold, who is three or four times bigger than the Empire State Building and can fly&#8217;), he barely encountered any other members of the cast. He worked on his scenes with the director, Peter Jackson, shooting against a green screen while wearing a motion-capture suit. &#8216;It&#8217;s sort of a grey all-in-one jumpsuit, with a skullcap, a Madonna headset and Aboriginal-like face paint,&#8217; he explains. &#8216;You feel like a tit in all that gear but Peter is so lovely you soon forget.&#8217; &#8221; <\/font color=\"#ffffff\"><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/9459441\/Benedict-Cumberbatch-returns-in-Parades-End.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Secher of The Telegraph recently interviewed Benedict Cumberbatch. In today&#8217;s online edition, the Tele published a wide-ranging&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1506,4,334],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benedict-cumberbatch","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit-rumors"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-fNX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60757","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60766,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60757\/revisions\/60766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}