The rule of law is being overrun so fast, eroding our civil liberties in a way that
fundamentalists could possibly cherish. Yet there is a very real threat, for the other
liberty that we could have taken away is our life, at any point, through the act of terrorism.
I think intelligence services have really struggled post-Iraq with credibility, and I feel for
them to a certain degree. They are trying to protect our right to exist.
I've never been an activist, but I've always been politically aware. I protested against
budget cuts and cuts to education. I marched against the Iraq war. All that protesting
was just swept aside to pave the way for an illegal war, and the results of that war were
made very, very plain by those leaked war logs.
[on The Hobbit] Growing up, my dad read it to me, and it was a real treat, a feast for a
child's imagination. He did an amazing Smaug, and hobbits, and Gandalf as well - it's
the audiobook that will never exist.
The only thing that may unite all forms of acting in a sense is no matter what
preparation you do, no matter what transformative process you go through, you are
always yourself. You are always inside your own skin - you are who you are no matter
what the actions of the movement or the effect. You have to have an essential element
of you, and that is also what is in the present. Once you're in the present and you're
not worried about the wig, or the special-effects suit, or the dialogue, or the accent,
or the moral responsibility, when you are lost in the moment and you're in the present
is when the stuff that's really good comes on screen. Until that point, you've put in a lot
of hard work to then let go, and all of us experience moments - and they're rare in
every job I find - where you feel free of any kind of self-consciousness.

神夏的台词真是精妙，看了N遍才理解麦哥对小夏说的这句：
The promise of love.
The pain of loss.
The joy of redemption.
And give him a puzzle, watch him dance.

Bitterness is a paralytic.
Love is a much more vicious motivator.
想想还真挺对的。

转自Daily Mail
His success comes as a great, if poignant, vindication of the support of his parents,
both of whom are actors but have enjoyed far less stellar careers.
His father, Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch, acts under the name Timothy Carlton. He
has been in the TV comedies Executive Stress and Next Of Kin.
His mother, Wanda Ventham, is best known for playing Colonel Virginia Lake in the
Seventies sci-fi series UFO and Cassandra’s mother, Pamela, in Only Fools And Horses.
Cumberbatch said in an interview that his mother took on commercial theatre roles
when he was younger to keep the family finances afloat.
Benedict, their only child, was always at home on the stage. One family joke is that
when he was playing Joseph in a Nativity play he shoved the girl playing Mary out of
the way because he felt she was too slow in saying her lines. He was three at the
time.
At Harrow, he had been thinking of a future in the law, which his parents approved of
more than acting; but then — against parental advice — went on to study drama at
Manchester University.
He said: ‘They just saw the pitfalls of it every day. You don’t know where your next job
is coming from, and it’s unstable, and you want stability for your children.
‘Everything that was bad about it for them, they wanted me to be free of. But I just
kept on doing it.’
Eventually his father came to see him playing Salieri in a university production of
Amadeus, Peter Schaffer’s play about Mozart.
Benedict recalls: ‘In a car park afterwards, we were saying goodbye and my father
said: “You are better than I was, or ever will be. You will have a really good time doing
this for a living.”
‘And I cried. And from that moment I thought: “OK, if I’ve got his blessing, then I’m going
to do it.”’
It’s clear, then, that family is very important to Benedict Cumberbatch — even if he
doesn’t like to shout about all of them.

2月4号Sherlock剧组在Apple Store Covent Garden的访谈
油管上的：http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnbxrjlTVEI

小夏的这张脸，我觉得麦哥说的极是：
"in a certain light, his face is quite alien. And then in another, he's iconically handsome."

143楼的视频，听了一小段儿，放上来。
Moderator: The Chinese particularly love you, don’t they?
BC: Apparently, apparently so. Yes, apparently so, which I’m veryflattered by it.
Moderator: Yeah, in terms of this series, let’s talk about this series.
BC: Yeah
Moderator: It felt like the series is a lot about kind of deepeningyour character, your
characters, and kind of humanizing Sherlock. Did you feel thatway too? Did you feel like
this was taking a new turn in that sense?
BC: Yeah, a little bit. You know. That’s what sort of happened as a character as the
first 2 series as well. But where you left him, there was a 2 year gap. And I think during that
time, he was on his own, and just lost lots of the social skills and contact with humanity that
he had through his relationship and friendship with John. So I think 3 is about, obviously
about this relationship now, and also through that, he discovers far more again about what
makes him a better detective, and better human being through his relationship with, now,
Mary and John. Yeah, you discover a lot more about him, you even get a glimpse of
suggested back storyof and the depth of relationship with Mycroft has gone some further
distance. And you understand that he came from something, he has two very normal
f**king amazing parents. (laugh) And, uh, I always sweat when I talk about my mother.
I’m gonna get into trouble. And yeah, that was a joy of play. That was a lovelything to
have. It sort of deepened him as a human being. And still turn him inas the number 1
world’s consulting detective.

我是后知后觉的才看到这个，眼泪都要笑出来了！
Benedict被Star Trek Into Darkness的其他演员整蛊。
链接http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cn4A5IZg1k

这段是现场的一段clip，笑死了。
链接http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbsdlWOOtTc

看网上对小夏在Star Trek的表现评价还都不错，今天放假，就去iTunes上租了来看。
小夏同学的反派确实没让我失望。
这是他在David Letterman的Late Show里的访谈。
链接http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keiv6zGho8g

149楼里能看到他们让他签的那个disclaimer，LOL
PROJECT HH
I, the undersigned, hereby accept liability, in that participation with the Paramount Pictures
production Star Trek 2, hereafter referred to as HH, at the National Ignition Facility,
Livermore CA, hereafter referred to as NIF, recognize that the topically applied emollient
known as Neutron Cream does not exist and that jumping up and down and shaking my
hands makes look like a silly bastard. All consequences and repercussions are my
responsibility alone.
Signed
Dated

Benedict, Chris Pine, and Kim Cattrall的Graham Norton Show
好欢乐。
Part 1:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXqsg59z7m0
Part 2:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vp93sKOOdo
Part 3:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLSp3mH6D_A

小夏在Google Play的访谈里谈到他对Khan这个角色的理解，说的很对我的胃口。
主持人问: Do you have anything in common with John Harrison?
BC: Uh, I look a bit like him, although I've got a little bit more light in my eyes normally
than I do in the poster. Uh, I'm being very facetious.
Do I have anything in common with him?
Well, yeah. I'm very loyal. I'm quite tribal about the people that I care about. I'm fiercely
defensive of those who are close to me that I love, and that includes this family of
people I've just worked with on this film. It's a powerful reflection that is seen all the
way through J.J's work of family and connections and friendship and loyalty, and it pays
off because it's something every audience member can empathize with, and it doesn't
close it down as being just a Sci-Fi film or even an action thriller. It's something that
everyone can enjoy for that very reason.
And I would say that it is an aspect that I share with him and Harrison to a degree,
because while his acts may be incredibly violent and vicious and unremitting,
the purpose behind them, the intention is very pure and based on a moral drive and a very
human passion to fight for the underdog, to fight for the right and survival of his people,
his tribe, and to make sure that there is an element of balance being redressed in the
powers of the modern, or futuristic landscape that he's in.
You know, I feel, that he's a terrorist, and one man's terrorist is another man's freedom
fighter. And terrirism is often born, not always, but often born out of a minority struggle
for understanding and some kind of ability to answer, politically, where they're at with
superpowers or what we deem as being democracy being imposed on them, or
despotism, or lack of rule of law.
And desperate times call for desperate measures, and so I think it's no surprise that in
popular culture, there are lots of bad guys who have motivations that are premised
in terrorism because of that. It's permeated our popular culture. We're still making
sense of it because it is, sadly, a modern reality.