{"id":1425,"date":"2012-10-01T00:46:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T04:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2012-10-01T00:46:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T04:46:05","slug":"benedict-cumberbatch-went-berserk-playing-the-hobbits-smaug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/10\/01\/benedict-cumberbatch-went-berserk-playing-the-hobbits-smaug\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedict Cumberbatch Went Berserk Playing The Hobbit’s Smaug"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sherlock<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0star\u00c2\u00a0Benedict Cumberbatch is to The Hobbit<\/em>‘s Smaug as Andy Serkis is to Gollum. “It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very freeing, once you put the suit on and the sensors. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never felt less encumbered, actually,”\u00c2\u00a0Cumberbatch says<\/a> of the stint as a motion-capture dragon.\u00c2\u00a0“You just have to lose your shit on a carpeted floor, in a place that looks a little bit like a mundane government building.” With the second of the three Hobbit<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0films<\/a> titled The Desolation of Smaug<\/em>, plan for lots of Cumberbatch shit-losing.<\/p>\n

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Sherlock\u00c2\u00a0star\u00c2\u00a0Benedict Cumberbatch is to The Hobbit‘s Smaug as Andy Serkis is to Gollum. “It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very freeing, once you put the suit on and the sensors. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never felt less encumbered, actually,”\u00c2\u00a0Cumberbatch says of the stint as a motion-capture dragon.\u00c2\u00a0“You just have to lose your shit on a carpeted floor, in a place that looks a … <\/p>\n

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