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I feel like we’re married! I feel like I’m gonna really miss her
Ben Whishaw talking about Sophie Okonedo. I love them so much ^.^
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“I may in fact be addicted to buying books; on bad days, I think of quitting it all and working in a bookshop. I was very taken with this table of translations; I bought one by Yukio Mishima and one by Peter Handke.”
Source: vulture.com
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Definitely have bad days. I can be very grumpy and angry and irritable and impatient and out of thoughts. Everything. I’m not always lovely. This is a misconception. I’m not very cute, I don’t think really. Sweet I think, people think I am (sweet).
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Source: mp.weixin.qq.com
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I wanted to do it because I’m not the normal type. I’m not the type of person who’s usually cast in that role.
Source: observer.com
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That’s why his hair is so big. It’s full of… talent.
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Part of Whishaw’s actorish je ne sais quoi—besides being cool-guy skinny—is his hair. Whishaw has the luscious locks of Donald Trump’s fever dreams. Before we start our interview, I’m hoping that we become friendly enough during our time together that he’ll ask me if I’d like to touch it. He doesn’t, but I bet it’s soft and nice, like if Sofia Vergara were a British man.
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He is shy, which he readily admits, and has a tendency to look off and away while chatting. But he is also gracious and friendly, offering wheels of strawberry liquorice and laughing often (a cheeky little “heh heh” sound).
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Interviews have often described Whishaw as sharing the qualities he projects on screen and on stage – a vulnerability, an unworldliness, a not-quite-human mingling of limpid eyes and tousled hair and innocence, as though some tremulous fawn or wood sprite had somehow carved out a successful acting career.
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‘I think maybe you should push her to the ground, fumble around,’ ” Whishaw recalls the director saying. “So Saoirse and me do it in rehearsal, and it’s great. But then you do it eight times a week and you’re black and blue. Actually, she broke her finger!
Source: New York Post
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TAVI GEVINSON: I read something you said about Judi Dench, which was that her acting had such an effect on you as a teenager because you couldn’t see how she was doing it — and that’s how I feel about your acting. I haven’t studied acting, and I’m so fascinated by what that must be like.
BEN WHISHAW: Yeah, you do a lot of voice lessons and movement lessons and technical things, and they are really useful. But I suppose at a certain point you don’t think about them, and that’s what the training is for. I had an amazing acting teacher. He taught us a Stanislavkian kind of approach, that kind of school of naturalistic acting, but he also had his own spin on it. He seemed to see right inside you. We were all very young. We were your age — I was 19 when I went there — but he would push you. And I remember he was always saying, “I’m not interested in what comes out of your head, I wanna know what comes out of your heart.”
Source: wnyc.org
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I don’t see myself as a type, I suppose, that’s the thing. I don’t put myself in any kind of category and I really dislike anything like that coming at me. Because when I was 15, I played John Proctor and nobody thought I shouldn’t, or couldn’t, do it. There’s a freedom you have as a young person before the world starts branding you as something that I’m always trying to keep hold of. Because that’s how I feel inside: I’m many things. But also I think it’s that acting is not really so much about transforming or changing, but more of a chemical process, if you like, of your personality with the character. It’s not like you suddenly become a completely other human. You’re only ever you. And it’s coming out from you somewhere, but with the meeting of this other material that you’re working with.
Ben Whishaw explaining acting in a way that makes SO much sense in W Magazine. I mean, plenty of actors talk about acting, but many of them come off sounding pretty nonsensical. This is so well put.
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“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.”
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I have a lot of fear. All the time. But it’s important somehow to have fear and then to overcome it. I feel a bit like I’m always on an edge, where the fear might completely overwhelm me and I might not be able to do it. That’s not happened yet. [x]
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The bushy beard that his part in “The Crucible” requires does little to dispel the tender aura he projects. [x]
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“If I could only act the things I’ve experienced, then I’d be a very limited actor,” he said. “It’s a preposterous idea that that’s all that an actor can do. I’m not really like any of the characters that I’ve played. I don’t feel like they’re me. Anything’s possible. You can understand anybody, really, or try to.”
Ben Whishaw on Acting…
Source: The New York Times
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His calling card is a soulful fragility, all faunlike bearing and saucer eyes, with a teenager’s unruly mop mane.