Benedict Cumberbatch News

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I find he stammers more during interviews and in that clip.

[Inge l-w]

Well, it's not a rehearsed script, still his rate of delivery is rather impressive for a man.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Yes it is.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Can I be :( that Benedict's voice is losing 47 to 53 to baby goats.  Really?! Oh the humanity!!! ;)

[joanneta1]

Is anyone of you aware that the gentleman sitting in the middle of the couch during the interview had actually played Professor Moriarty's assistant in The Red-Headed League? I am seriously beginning to question coincidence as being laziness on the part of the universe!

[sittything]

I don't really "hear" Sherlock when it's BC talking and vice versa on the show.  I would assume it's a combo of the rate of speech plus the written dialogue plus BC's delivery?

 

Sherlock is really his own person in my own mind.  

[sfmpco]

This is happening tonight:

 

https://twitter.com/letterslive/status/581565564126126081

[sfmpco]

Ben and various poetry readings:

 

http://www.bustle.com/articles/72417-benedict-cumberbatch-poetry-readings-that-you-need-to-hear-asap-videos

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

I don't really "hear" Sherlock when it's BC talking and vice versa on the show.  I would assume it's a combo of the rate of speech plus the written dialogue plus BC's delivery?

 

Sherlock is really his own person in my own mind.  

 

Yeah that, and also BC tends to talk just a wee bit deeper when he's playing a character than when he's speaking as himself. There's also the little gestures and tiny microexpressions that make a big difference.

[Arcadia]

The rhythm of his speech is different too, when he's Sherlock.

[sfmpco]

Yes, his voice gets a bit deeper as Sherlock, and unless he's really tired, his lisp disappears almost entirely.  Once in a while it pops up.  But when he's just being interviewed, the lisp is more present.

[Inge l-w]

What lisp? That is the after-effect of a really posh British public school. You should hear David Niven, Peter Ustinov ( OK, that was Winchester) and Jeremy Brett ( flipping Eton) and hear that plummy accent all over the place.

[sfmpco]

He has a lisp and admits it.  He says it gets really bad when he is tired.  He can hear it sometimes in Sherlock... for example, when he is showing John Appledore on his computer in HLV... (after Janine leaves).  

 

Just like you can hear his pneumonia in ASIP.  Some things the voice can't disguise.

[besleybean]

Wow, i hadn't noticed the latter.

[J.P.]

Thanks for the comments on his voice. In a foreign language it is soooo hard to hear the nuances. I just think Sherlock's voice is deeper a bit (Especially when Sherlock has his "adult" moments) and has a kind of additional resonance - but it also might be an effect in the post production. 

 

Lisp? What lisp? I thought English is 80% lisping. 

 

[besleybean]

Oi!

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Now I'm going to have to re-watch ASIP & HLV to listen to those.

[Inge l-w]

As besleybean says, oi there! You could accuse Joss Ackland, the late Sir Alec Guinness and Sir Ralph Richardson of lisping on the strength of that pattern of enunciation, John Mills and Sir Derek Jacobi included, not to mention Colin Firth!

[besleybean]

I'm laughing at the last one, thinking of the stammer on The King's Speech!

[Inge l-w]

Dear besleybean, Colin Firth probably tried extremely hard to do it properly, just as BC had to for the Imitation Game. But I think that the late Sir Alec Guinness and Sir Derek Jacobi are prime examples of that kind of pronunciation and enunciation. If it is termed a lisp, then they are also included, which puts BC in extremely august thespian company indeed!

[sfmpco]

Ben on the news...

 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ktzsz_benedict-cumberbatch-newsnight-27-march-2015_creation

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Well done. I caught his attempt at an American accent and thoroughly enjoyed it. Read with passion and care.

[sittything]

I always find it odd to hear someone speak in an accent other than what I expect to hear from them.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I was surprised at first. His American accent is better than some I've heard from others attempting it.

[sittything]

Gillian Anderson always freaks me the hell out b/c she's an American who spent a good chunk of her childhood in England, so she flips back and forth between an American and British accent like it's nothing.  And it's so weird to hear her British accent.  I get that's actually her original accent, since she lived in England until the age of 11, but it seems affected to me b/c it's not what I expect to hear from her.

 

ETA:  BC almost seems normal and not so posh with his fake American accent.  lol.  Voice even sounded a little less deep or something.