In addition to this, another Frankenstein backstage photograph by Simon Annand who has another book coming… x
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, 2011, Frankenstein, National Theatre. ‘He was on the phone arranging tickets for somebody while undergoing the two-hour make-up job he had to do every night. He was starting on the film War Horse with Steven Spielberg two days later’
These photos again with a proper source link.
http://www.coutts.com/downloads/2011/march/national-theatre/landscape-images/
Someone has kindly taken the risk of adding the whole Frankenstein documentary to you tube. Many thanks to the uploader.
If you have an account at thebox,
Unlisted video on you tube so please dont head to twitter and spell out exactly what it is. Because you know it will get deleted by NT if that happens.
Its a crass edit on my part but I only really want the clips of the production and any comments from Danny. The documentary as a whole is rather poor and its a shame the wonderful clips are supporting such a poor effort.
Frankenstein: A Modern Myth, the indepth documentary on the legacy of Mary Shelley’s novel that makes extensive use of footage culled from the NTLive production of Frankenstein, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, will finally recieve it’s television premiere in the UK on Channel 4 on October 31 2012 at 23:10GMT.
Loved these little intro bits. He looked so yummy.
Yes, loved these! Fluffy gingerbatch is the most adorable batch.
He flipped up the locks of hair on his forehead where the skin is mottled in patches — a remnant of his days as a laboratory creation in “Frankenstein” and the makeup process that burned and ripped at his skin.“I have actual acting scars,” he said.
— Benedict’s LAtimes interview
He flipped up the locks of hair on his forehead where the skin is mottled in patches — a remnant of his days as a laboratory creation in “Frankenstein” and the makeup process that burned and ripped at his skin.“I have actual acting scars,” he said.
— Benedict’s LAtimes interview
A friend of mine discovered this in one of the current National Theatre leaflets (the one on events for secondary schools, colleges and teachers, if anyone wants to go and look for one) - thought I’d share. GINGER CREATURE! :D <3
The award for Best Actor at the Oliviers 2012. Jonny’s speech. Benedict sadly couldnt attend.
Well deserved!
Remember last year ATD won so many awards at Olivier whereas Benedict wasnt even nominated? Well then this year that’s three prestigious theatre awards(Olivier, ES and Critics Circle) Benedict has won for Frankenstein. Couldnt be happier for him! :DD
Okay, BAFTA is coming!
The film and theatre director Danny Boyle has sung the praises of Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch, calling the 35-year-old actor “extraordinary” and “one of the leading actors in the world”.
Boyle directed Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller last year in Frankenstein at the National Theatre. Their alternating roles as Dr Frankenstein and his terrifying creature have earned them a joint nomination for Best Actor at the 2012 Olivier Awards, the winners of which will be announced this Sunday, 15 April, at the Royal Opera House in London.
Talking to Radio Times for the new issue’s Olivier Awards picture special, Boyle recalled the casting of Cumberbatch – who had just been seen on BBC1 in the first series of Sherlock – in the play.
“I didn’t really know him as a stage actor,” Boyle said. “I knew what a fine screen actor he is. But there’s a physicality involved in the theatre. It’s not just about mannerisms or impersonation, which screen often is: it’s about sustaining a narrative with mind and body. When I saw him for Frankenstein, that was the only thing I wanted to know. Did he have that physical capacity? And of course he does.
“That’s why he’s now what he is: one of the leading actors in the world. He’s gone on to another division, which is movies at the moment. He’ll have a great time. He’s got experience, he’s not a young ingénue being exposed to Hollywood. He’ll make the best of it.”
Going back to his first meeting with Cumberbatch, Boyle said: “We met and I asked him to do a few things and he was extraordinary in the room. He’s as fit as a boxer, which you have to be for the stage. You have to have an internal fitness that allows you to carry the story so it never sags. He had this combination of the cerebral and the physical which you can see when you look back at his screen work – in Hawking, it’s there. Frankenstein was a great one for using it.”
So did Boyle sense at the time that he was working with someone who was on a rapid ascent to the top? The Slumdog Millionaire director recalled that he did feel that way, and that Cumberbatch took the dual role in his stride: “Any part when you’re exposed on the stage is a challenge, you put yourself on the line,” Boyle remarked, “but doing that twice and seeing yourself through someone else’s eyes is a credit to his confidence levels. He was able to take it on. It’s the world that has to catch up: [actors like Cumberbatch] are on a trajectory, which is natural, and we haven’t laced our way into it yet but we’re about to. I think the film world will see that now. That’s the final part of his audience in a way.”
Finally, in comments that will have Sherlock fans rushing to re-watch their series twoDVDs, Boyle said Cumberbatch had taken a little of Frankenstein’s monster back into Sherlock: “In the latest series of Sherlock, there were a couple of things he put in that were direct mimics of Frankenstein’s creature. Those of us who shared it all, we spotted them – the audience wouldn’t, and so they wouldn’t be put off by it. When actors are on a roll it’s a continuum. They channel everything incoming that’s useful. Everything feeds into everything else.”
See more pictures and interviews with Britain’s leading actors in Radio Times magazine’s fantastic Olivier Awards special! Also in the new issue: Paul Weller, Pamela Stephenson, Mary Beard, Clare Balding, Two Greedy Italians, Dara O Briain and more. In shops Tuesday 10 April.
