11. Do you know the following stars? Add a correct proper name to each photograph. What are they famous for?
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If you don’t recognize them, return to this task after listening to Audio 1, Audio 2, Audio 3.
Audio 1
(interview by Joe McCabe, “FEARnet”)
12. Read the following information before listening to Audio 1:
‘Archie’ – an American comic book about teenage life;
Chris (= Christopher Nolan) – a British film director.
13. Listen to Audio 1. Choose whether the following statements are true or false, explain your choice:
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1) The speaker wasn’t fond of comic books in his childhood. |
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2) The speaker’s sisters enjoyed reading ‘Batman’. |
T / F |
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3) For a certain period of time the actor had a thought of turning down the role of the Joker. |
T / F |
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4) Tim Burton asked the star to act in his film. |
T / F |
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5) Chris was open for the actor’s interpretations. |
T / F |
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6) The speaker cared to explain the difference from Jack Nicholson’s portrayal of the character. |
T / F |
14. Listen to Audio 1 one more time. Check your answers to ex. 12. Guess who the speaker is. Audio 2
(interview by Peter Travers, “Rolling Stone Movies”)
15.Read the following information before listening to Audio 2:
Martin Freeman – a famous actor;
Mark (= Mark Gatiss) – an English screenwriter;
Steven (= Steven Moffat) – a famous series producer;
Limelight – the focus of public attention;
Asperger’s (= Asperger’s syndrome) – a rare and relatively mild autistic disorder characterized by awkwardness in social interaction, pedantry in speech, and preoccupation with very narrow interests.
16. Listen to Part 1 of Audio 2. Fill in the gaps.
Peter Travers: Alright, people, you have just seen a scene from “Sherlock”, which is in (1) ________________________ on PBS’s masterpiece mystery. And Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Sherlock, brilliantly, I have to say, is here to prove that he’s just as brilliant when he’s not playing Sherlock…
The speaker: Oh, God, no, Peter…
Peter Travers: Yes, do it…
The speaker: I can’t…
Peter Travers: Did you have any moment of hesitation when you (2) ________________________?
The speaker: Oh, huge, I mean, not when I was offered it, because by then I’ve read the script. And when I first heard of the idea, I think both Martin Freeman and I, both kinda flinched at the idea of (3) ________________________ which is so iconic and so untouchably brilliant in its original form was sort of distasteful. It smacked of a cash cow, some kind of horrible cultural kind of cannibalism, pop-eating itself, if you will. And I just, I really (4) ________________________. I was also a little bit nervous about the idea of stepping into the limelight. Realizing by playing an iconic figure, I think it’s the 75th or 76th incarnation line. So, you know, well, (5) ________________________, yeah, I had a lot of actors have done this before…
Peter Travers: Really? I only knew of Basil Rathbone…
The speaker: And Jeremy Brett, you must know…
Peter Travers: Jeremy Brett…
The speaker: Robert Stephens, and it just goes on and on…
Peter Travers: And this guy, Robert Downey Junior…
The speaker: That little, yeah, that kinda, yeah…
Peter Travers: What?
The speaker: Yeah, I hope he does well, he’s got a lot of promise. Ehm…I, you know, I kinda went into lots of trepidation, but then (6) ________________________ and just completely fell in love with it.
Peter Travers: There’s something about the voice, the tenor of it.
The speaker: I think, well, I mean I went back to the original books, it was so: how do you prepare for the role. I’ve read the book, ‘cause I knew that was exactly what had driven Mark and Steven for this (7) ________________________. And we had a lot to establish that was our own to a tailor and an author and yet at the same time I had to bring, in my mind, I had to bring an element of (8) ________________________, or at least other timeliness to him. And coming from the posh boarding-school, looking the way I do, I mean, I’ve done some period dramas, you know, I think, I think (9) ________________________ and I think that’s what Mark and Steven wanted to use me for initially. And then I read for them, and they were like: “Good, our instincts were very right”. And it’s been a marriage of bliss ever since, especially…
Peter Travers: How did you want to put yourself forward as this character?
The speaker: I would say, well, I have a first rule that (10) ________________________ are as big kind of walls, so I go up, ok. That’s good for two and a half pages of (11) ________________________, but you know, sharpened and polished into this entire narrative, and so I said about working on them a lot and I look at the action scenes as well, I also think about even the interaction and growth of the character, and where the relationships are developing. And I just can’t, I get itchy to do it, to be honest, I mean, this… it’s just very, they’re just really (12) ________________________…you just wanna get on and get playing really…