Benedict Cumberbatch - Benedict & Lara Pulver [Sherlock & Irene] #1: "I'm not dead. Let's have dinner." - Page 5

~ Jis_Bon ~ · 11-15-2016, 05:02 PM

...and weird for the cast

beforethestorybegan · 11-15-2016, 07:40 PM

vanessasmith81 · 11-16-2016, 05:18 AM

Love that art.

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Originally Posted by sparksღfly (View Post)

It must have been still incredibly tough for Lara to shoot

Yeah, she's talked about how nervous she was doing it. Here's an excerpt from one interview she did:

How was it to film that scene when your characters first meet and you’ve completely naked? Was it difficult to do that without laughing?

PULVER: To be honest, laughter didn’t really come into it. It was more delirium that came into it. I think I was extremely nervous and adrenaline was running. It was the first time I’ve ever had to be completely naked, in anything. And then, after the first couple of takes, I found the power in being a woman without hiding behind a dress or spanx, or trying to give off any illusion of being thinner or fatter or more beautiful, because I was actually completely vulnerable and stripped of any of that. And then, I found a different power that came from a very honest place, and we just played from there. By the end of it, I wouldn’t move from a certain aspect of dialogue until Martin Freeman had looked me up and down, or looked at my breasts. It was a play fest.

Reading that, I'm glad they pushed her to get fully naked and I'm glad she went through with it. It really worked for the scene and made it more effective than if they had just done something like shoulders-and-up shots. And I think it ended up being a positive experience for her as an actress to step out of her comfort zone.

sparksღfly · 11-16-2016, 02:17 PM

wait they pushed her?

vanessasmith81 · 11-16-2016, 04:39 PM

Didn't mean it that way. I mean they convinced her that it was best for the scene and she agreed.

~ Jis_Bon ~ · 11-17-2016, 03:11 PM

They all agreed that it would be better to be naked

sparksღfly · 11-18-2016, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by vanessasmith81 (View Post)

Didn't mean it that way. I mean they convinced her that it was best for the scene and she agreed.

ah alright god you scared me, cause i was like i knew they agreed it would be better, i didn't know they pushed her, didn't sound like Moffat and Gatiss

vanessasmith81 · 11-18-2016, 04:09 PM

Yeah, a better way to put it may be that she pushed herself as an actress. She was terrified of doing it, but knew it was best for the scene so she faced her fear and came out stronger for having gone through with it.