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SherlockCommentary episode three
MG:Hello, I’m Mark Gatiss. This is Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.
MF:Hello.
BC:Hello.
MG:We’re here to talk today, about episode three of Sherlock: The Great Game,which I wrote and here we are in Belarus. So Benedict, take us through this freezingwretched location.
BC:Oh, God! We were outdoors all day before going indoors “to a fridge—a walkinghuman fridge!”. It’s just massively cold as you can see from the shot. That’snot a fake. We can’t have forged a fake!
MG:The funniest thing about this is it’s set in Belarus precisely because I had tofind only a few places in the world where (A) they still has a death penalty tomake the show work but also (B) they hang people instead of shoot people or legalinjection. I wrote it in Mexico and Sue said “We can’t do that. It’s too hot. ”So Belarus was the preferred choice. I remember the first scene that is fantasticallyArctic atmosphere. I really believed this could be Russia and then in the nextscene the contemporary London. It looks just as cold!
MF:Yes, we should let people know actually, as we shot this actual sequence, thiswas the first episode we shot. It was maybe the coldest period in recordedhistory.
MG:It’s now known as the mini ice-age.
MF:Yes, it’s horrendously cold.
MG:This was January in Wales.
BC:People would discover the tissues I used in icecaps in years to come.
MG:Yes, but we did that what might seem insane. But we did it really because thisscript was ready first and because Steve Moffat is off for duty on the othershow Doctor Who and we just decided to do it back to front. It was a veryinteresting process really, because we end up having to sort of address thingsat the beginning which we then actually create later as they were…
MF:Yeah.
BC:Which works very well as you’ve seen and modern xxx does work very well. I have to say there’s astroke of marks.
MG:There he is.
BC:It’s a stroke of his genius that…dear me, there’s a grammar lesson between theman who’s facing the death penalty and the greatest detective of all time.
MG:It is seen in my pre-occupations.
BC:Brilliant idea.
MG:Now, this of course is a moment from the Sherlock Holmes cannon very famous momentin the original stories in which Sherlock Holmes, bored, makes “V.R.” forVictoria Regina in bullet holes on the wall. And… So I was just trying to thinkof a modern equivalent and then a smiley face interfered the film.
BC:And brilliantly thanks to the designed xxx with the yellow paint of our secondepisode.
MG:Thank you very much. Yes the ink.
BC:Not just as smiley face.
MG:The debates here… There is a ongoing debate about Sherlock Holmes’s famousdressing gowns and he had some very specifically ones in the original story. Andeventually we went for this one, this blue silk one, but there will be more.
BC:A blue silk dressing gown that cost a bit that I managed to shoot a holethrough!
MF:It’s easily done.
BC:Easily done.
MG:Can you tell us, Martin and Benedict, about this set, the mechanics of workingin it.
BC:It’s a bit of joy. I mean, it’s somewhere you’d really do generally want tospend time. I think I still… I have couple of books from the shelves, and just sittingin those armchairs and …
MG:That’s where they went!
BC:It’s um… You know it’s got the sort of interior room like feel of a Victorianflat that with the modern xxxand it’s very vital to the original stories that comes across in our xxx becauseit was always the outside world the intrude this sort of… Well… sort ofunstabelized but also domestic place. But it was quite... I’d be very happyliving there with Martin,
MF:I love it!
MG:Well everyone just want to stay all day.
BC:We did. We really did. It was lovely. It’s a joy. It’s got extraordinary walls.The walls behind the… I mean, shall I give the magic away?
MG:No no. No doubt that’s a magic.
BC:Okay.
MF:But the wall has got some classic McGuigan wall paper. Mcguigan loves strangewall paper.
MG:A strange obsession.
BC:He should lord xxxfor that.
MG:This incidentally is something I wanted to do with Sherlock Holmes for years,which is a very very undone thing. Which is substitute of being a super human,he is incredibly ignorant about things that don’t interest him.
2011年05月10日 07点05分