Ben Whishaw, New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards.
“…and Ben Whishaw in plaid with a cup of herbal tea, which is how he should always be. And me, in a very orange tie. A memorable afternoon.”
journalist who interviewed Ben for Observer :)
Did you ever watch the last set of The Hollow Crown films?
MICHAEL GAMBON: Ben Whishaw was very good. Brilliant.
What did you think of the first series of The Hollow Crown?
ADRIAN DUNBAR: The people gathered around the project were of really high standard. The quality of the acting, in particular, with people like Ben Whishaw, was particularly great.
What impressed you about Tom Sturridge?
DOMINIC COOKE (Director): I was really struck by him when he acted in the Royal Court. He has that mercurial sensitivity that Mark Rylance or Ben Whishaw have.
AKB Has a Ben Whishy-Washy Secret
We know all about Andrew Keenan-Bolger's fascination with Ben Whishaw. (Exhibit A.) So it should come as no surprise that when Whishaw (and the whole Crucible cast) wished Tuck Everlasting a "beautiful" run, Andrew stole the note for his own dressing room. A note's fine, AKB, but what about the real deal? We hear Ben loves Flamin' Hot Cheetos...and Froot Loop-scented things. You've got this!
Naomie Harris talking about her two dates at the Met Gala last night on Instagram.
LMD: Ben Whishaw… {Whishaw makes a cameo in the film} TOM TYKWER: Yeah! He has to be there in every movie, okay? I can’t do it without him. I don’t know how to do it. And if there’s no part for him, he just has to have some appearance. We’re just really connected and good friends. I really look forward to have something bigger for him again, you know?
PCMag spoke with Tykwer via email to learn more about the tech in the movie, particularly how they shot the holographic telepresence scene.
“It was a VFX sequence,” he confirmed. “But of course we shot Ben Whishaw’s side of the holographic call on a green-screen stage in Germany where he responded to all activities that we had shot with David Menkin in the actual tent in the West Sahara where the call is received. Then we created a look for the projected holographic image and stitched these elements together.”
You’ve mentioned before that Mark Rylance’s performance with the RSC as Hamlet was a “life-changing” influence on you. It’s interesting because you both have had an eerily similar career trajectory. You’ve also played Hamlet with RSC, and he’s also been a very campy, very well-reviewed Richard II. Does that influence you anyhow?
He has! And I haven’t seen him play Richard II! It’s one of his performances that I never managed to catch, which is probably just as well because I’m sure I’d be intimidated beyond words. I saw Ben Whishaw’s Richard, and that nearly finished my campaign. He was so good, so brilliantly cast and so effortless, I thought he was magnificent. There’s a thrill to try and do these parts that all these extraordinary actors have done before you. It’s almost like being at an Olympic event, but of course the downside of that is that you’re inevitably comparing yourself to some extraordinarily fine actors, and sometimes that can be a little intimidating.
(Jany Temime - costume designer for Skyfall and Spectre)
Interview from cinematoday.jp!
(1:03-1:29) Q: Regarding Ben Whishaw...
Eddie Redmayne: Amazing. I love Ben Whishaw. I think he’s the best actor in the world. I had so much fun. And I think it’s amazing because he doesn’t have many scenes but what he manages to do with those scenes is so formidable. He’s actually doing a play on Broadway at the moment which I hope to get to see, with Saoirse Ronan. I think he’s one of the great actors.
“Always, you take a leap of faith with a director, because it’s quite rare to work with someone more than once,” said Whishaw, a rising British stage star best known here as Q in the recent James Bond movies “Skyfall” and “Spectre.” “With Ivo, I had only seen his production of ‘A View From the Bridge,’ but I felt so overwhelmed by that production that just on instinct, I knew you could put your faith in this man and trust him completely.”
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Whishaw, who portrays John Proctor, the central character, faced with the choice between death and falsely confessing to witchcraft, was harder pressed to define van Hove’s technique. “When you open your mouth to try to explain it, it becomes quite incomprehensible,” said the actor, who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. “It’s really very difficult to say how he does what he does.”
