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Oct 22, 2014 for benedict cumberbatch, getting into character as the hobbits firebreathing nemesis smaug involved sticking white dots all over his face and rolling around on the floor in a motioncapture suit. The desolation of smaug, lets revisit his best book character roles. With cumberbatch returning to the big screen this winter as the dragon smaug in the hobbit. The rediscovered railway mysteries and other stories reader audio book words for you. Dec 24, 2012 in the following interview, both martin freeman and benedict cumberbatch discuss the confrontation between bilbo baggins and smaug in the lonely mountain. The battle of the five armies 2014 benedict cumberbatch as smaug, necromancer. The hobbit star benedict cumberbatch talks playing smaug the dragon posted by terri schwartz on october 1st back when the lord of the rings trilogy came out, the motion capture technology director peter jackson used to transform andy. The metamorphosis is a great introduction to kafka, but i encourage people to get a copy of collected short stories from their library and read some of his other short works too. Dec 02, 20 actor benedict cumberbatch is the voice of the dragon smaug and offered to do motion capture so that peter jackson and his team could put cumberbatchs physical acting skills into the dragon. Franz kafkas metamorphosis read by benedict cumberbatch.
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With performance capture technology benedict becomes the dragon smaug and the necromancer in the hobbit. Cumberbatchs trademark style is a withering, perfectly enunciated deadpan whose inflections somehow betray, threefourths of the way through any sentence, sincere doubts that everyone will be in on the joke, she writes. About smaugs voice bc on conan the hobbit, benedict. May 12, 2015 mondays are tough, but thankfully the internet has blessed us all with a little something to help you relax after a long day benedict cumberbatch reading franz kafkas the metamorphosis for. Benedict cumberbatch reading kafkas the metamorphosis. Oct 17, 20 hitfix talks to martin freeman on the new zealand set of the hobbit. Benedict cumberbatch does smaug by fresh air from whyy. Benedict cumberbatch donned a motion capture suit to play the dragon smaug in the second chapter of peter jacksons the hobbit trilogy. English actor benedict cumberbatch has performed in many films, television series, theatre. Benedict cumberbatch i literally have no idea where to pin this so ill pin it on both of their boards. They are brilliant little thought experiments and impressionistic pieces very well worth it. Hear benedict cumberbatch read kafkas the metamorphosis.