Sherlock & Doctor Who New Series News
Sherlock and Doctor Who writer Steven Moffat spoke to us whilst collecting his award for best writing at the BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2012 in London.
During the five minute interview Steven spoke about the cliffhanger ending to series two of Sherlock, which left fans puzzling how the world’s most famous detective had so successfully faked his own death. Steven assures us that the resolution ot the conundrum has already been mostly filmed and will make perfect sense when revealed to fans following the return of the third series.
On the subject of the third series, Steven reveals that he recently met with show co-creator Mark Gatiss to discuss concrete plans for the new series. With an ending in store that he promises will leave fans just as infuriated as season two.
Steven also talks about the extraordinary chemistry between series stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, perfectly capturing the complicated relationship between Holmes and his companion Dr John Watson.
On the subject of Doctor Who Steven talks about how reinvigorated Matt Smith has been as the Doctor in recent episodes and talks briefly about filming the ‘tragic’ final episode for Amy and Rory. Touching briefly on what the Doctor’ latest companion played by Jenna Louise-Coleman will bring to the show. Steven reveals she will have “the most unusual arrival for a companion you’ve ever seen”.
But Steven was remaining very tight lipped on whether or not there will be a return of familiar faces, with past Doctors long rumored to be featuring in the show to mark this year’s special anniversary.
Watch the full video interview below:
Kristen Stewart & Chris Hemsworth Interview
We’re here with Snow White and her Huntsman…
Kristen – I said that on set all the time, I was always saying where is MY Huntsman, where is he?
Q. What are you most excited for the audience to see from this film?
Chris – I mean what I was excited about when I read it was how different it was to the fairy tale we knew. Across the board people have said to me that they didn’t expect it was also for a male audience. Even I assumed it was a fairy tale for kids or girls, but it’s not it’s for everyone because of how epic and visually stunning it is, with such great characters, story and heart. It’s just a big beautiful film.
Kristen – Yeah it’s so fundamentally stunning. The whole reasons I wanted to do the movie was because I wanted to be a part of that whole. I wanted to be one of those people. I wanted to help them. I know it sounds totally lame!
Chris – It’s true you can’t help but come along for the ride with each character that comes in. It’s like all of society coming together to take on the Evil Queen.
Q. Whether it’s Charlize being scary or the dwarves being funny each character brings something different to the film don’t they?
Kristen – Finding balance is important. Like for anyone who thinks we’re doing this dark twisted tale, it really is quite classical as well. In terms of what you think it’s going to be, the enchantment of it all is like so beautiful. When it gets light, when there’s levity it’s like so unbelievably beautiful.
Chris – I think more than ever films are combining so many different themes. With this one it’s not just an action film or a fairy tale it’s all those things coming together with that perfect set of balance.
Kristen – Life is never a genre. Like right now were not in a fairy tale…
Chris – But it’s somewhat tragic at the same time
Q. The film is so action packed, was there a scene that you found the most difficult?
Chris – Anything with a horse is pretty difficult!
Kristen – I’m so happy to hear everyone agreeing about that!
Chris – Especially my horse that seemed to want to go in the opposite direction in battle. I was like Dude and he was just like neeeh. I love how people say to you “By The way Horses can smell fear”. I’m like don’t tell me that I was relaxed before that!
Kristen – It’s true, it’s so true! That’s why I can’t ride. It might look like I can do it but it is just fear literally. Whatever is going on with my face in those scenes I take no credit for whatsoever!
Q. Is there something that helps you face your fear in those moments?
Chris – Sure I think you just get caught up in the moment. There’s a hundred horses riding in one direction, then you just jump off and things are on fire. It’s like, this feels like a battle sequence. After each take they would say and one more and I was like No we’ve all survived this one.
Kristen – I’m at war with men by the way it’ like the craziest experience in the world!
Chris – Yeah Kristen came on set being all tiny and we thought she was going to get squashed by all the horses or us in this big battle. Then Kristen comes out of it unscathed every take. Me and Sam were on the ground getting dragged by horses and hit by swords.
Kristen – I got lucky in that sequence but I destroyed myself in others!
Q. Can you describe a typical day on set for Snow White and the Huntsman?
Kristen – We were normally really cold and of course wet and muddy!
Chris – Yeah, but more than ever I felt like I was living this story. Normally you’re like I can go home now or back to the warm trailer. This was like Chris can you role in the mud to match the continuity and can you stay like that all day? Don’t wipe it off, don’t get dry. All of us suffered through it for four months, but it pays off in the finished film obviously. There’s no acting involved, you are genuinely uncomfortable
Kristen – All you want to do is get as close to the real experience as you can. You read a script and it does something to you. The reason you do the movie is because it did something to you. You’re like why did it feel like that? It makes you want to get as close as you can to that experience. It needed to put us in a place where we never felt silly. And we’re literally doing Snow White and the Huntsman; it’s a fairy tale with trolls and all that. But we all genuinely believed in it so much. Genuine discomfort, fear and freezing cold people!
Chris – Yeah it might have been the first time I stated to want to get away from the experience. Thinking I hate this acting thing!
Q. Do the amazing sets help you get into character?
Chris – It’s much better when 90% of your imagination hasn’t been taken up just creating what’s going on the green screen. You’re really there. If anything you get on those set and in those environments and it’s almost like you don’t want to get in the way. I ook impressive with a dramatic cathedral behind me.
Kristen – Yeah Chris just stand’s there Huntsmaning out!
Q. Kristen what was the most challenging and interesting thing about your character?
Kristen – I think that before she finds her voice there is a survival instinct there which is quite interesting to watch in that package because you know she’s quite small and she is a princess and all of that. But the interesting part is the humanising traits that we essentially all know her to be. She’s good, selfless and compassionate. But all of those things exist more easily in the real world we live in. It’s easier to root for someone you don’t feel is like a superhero. I can’t just have snow white’s effect on people. It was nice to ply someone who’s like an action star but still also such a lady. We’re not doing a girl power movie where we’re suddenly making her really tough. She’s strong because she’s steady she’s not strong because she’s got brawn. I had to stop myself from wanting to learn the choreography and take guys out. I think to keep her someone you wanted to believe in was what I was most concerned with.
Chris – I like the fact she wasn’t doing backflips off the castle wall and juggling different sword and things. You’d be wondering like where did all that training come from? She’s just like biting and scratching instead.
Kristen – It’s like with the Troll I just smile at him and it’s like you stop being silly, you get out of here right now you’ve been bad!
Q. Do you have a favourite scene either to film or to watch?
Kristen – I love the first escape, when Snow White breaks out of the castle and getting to the dark forest.
Chris – I love watching Kristen slide down through the tunnel. That whole sequence is pretty epic all of a sudden it’s like now we’re off. Prior to that we’re sort of setting things up an thyen that’ss like the break out of prison.
Kristen – Yeah it like totally kick-starts the movie, it’s like alright… this is the world we live in now. It really is relentless from there it never stops.
Q. You never really know what the dark forest is going to throw at you next, what makes it so creepy?
Chris – Obviously we were in there doing our thing, then later on they kind of transform some trees and add the spirits and all the monsters. It’s like wow, where did that all come from.
Kristen – How cool does the snake thing look now! The snake thing is so awesome. I’m sitting there amongst nothing. That actually made me feel stupid. It did feel a little stupid sitting there gasping “Oh no it’s all around me!”. Then Chris comes up with his axe and chops this branch and it falls in a perfect half.
Q. Kristen has this film given you a taste for action now, would you like to do more action roles?
Kristen – Yeah I would like to do more of it, although it’s hard. The reason Chris is like… well just look at him… he’s made for it!
Chris – Kristen is actually going to take on Thor next ! I’m going to hand her the hammer
Kristen – Yeah Mrs Thor.
Q. Kristen what do you enjoy most about the action?
Kristen - I really love to physically push myself, I think it’s so much cooler to watch people overcome thing sand face fears. I also have brothers and I grew up just loving running. Anytime I can move forward, if I get to run in a movie I feel so good. I don’t know why. Although yeah… I probably couldn’t do Thor.
- Chris and Kristen stop to compare biceps
Chris – Kristen’s muscles are like little stones, they’re very sharp as well, her arms are like blades.
Kristen – I’ve lost my muscles dude, when we were working together I was so impressive. Now they’re gone.
Q. Do you think they’re could be a sequel to this film?
Chris – Yeah sure there could be a sequel. It’s left open for that. Though what I liked about it was that it’s left open ended not as some sort of cheesy hook that says, hey come back and see it. A lot of the film is left open to interpretation and possibilities. For a sequel it’s just that you’d need a villain who is as powerful and dangerous as Charlize’s character and it’s like where do you go from her! What I loved so much was that it was a villain who you can’t help but understand and empathise with in some ways. Yes what she’s doing is horrific and you don’t agree with that, but she had some traumatic experience and it’s like no wonder she feels this way about men and society.
Kristen – A sequel would have to stand on its own. What’s awesome about the way this whole production has gone is that it does feel like it’s being done for the right reasons. We can’t wait to find where destiny leaves you. What I’m really stoked about is that destiny can lead you to a certain point, but then it becomes about how does everything that you thought was so perfect fall apart around you. It’s like okay now we’re actually individuals, before we were at war and moving too fast to really consider ourselves as people. So once she actually has to contend with ruling a kingdom. Destiny helped her save the people but it’s like is she the one to lead them. Can you deal with the fact that you are completely stunted emotionally? Like there’s no development, she’s been a prisoner for ten years. But I think a sequel could be awesome.
Chris – I think Snow White needs to go off to high school and have her debutant ball. She missed out on a lot because she was locked up. She also needs to get a driver’s licence or maybe get better at riding her horse. I mean I’m not going to write the script and it’s not going to happen but that was just my idea.
Q. Kristen as a California girl how was it to live in the UK for so long?
Kristen – Cold and wet definitely but I really love it here. I do love LA, I was born in Los Angeles and I do truly love California, I think it’s beautiful but it is pretty isolated. I love living in London because you live in your city things are going on all around you all the time. I’ve never lived in a city for this long. I’ve done trips but most of the time you go make movies in the middle of nowhere so this was amazing to have an apartment right in the middle of London.
Q. Congrats both of you on your accents how did you perfect them?
Chris - I had a great dialect coach and I listened to a bunch of films and things. There were a couple of Scottish guys on set so I kept going to them to say stuff and they’d be like no not like that! I’d try it again and they’d say yeah do it like that. I had a nice solid reference for it.
Kristen – I had a great coach too. It did help a little to be here in the UK but it’s so not modem, it’s what’s called Received Pronunciation. It’s a little bit more fully formed and so perfect for the character. I could never have hoped to ply the character sounding like this (slips into valley girl speak) “So like dude what do you think we should do now? “
Chris – (slips into surfer boy mode) “Dude That Queen is like SO… totally evil!”
Kristen – “I know like…. Listen to me brothers…. Follow me. Like seriously come on dude!”
Q. What’s your favourite British Food?
Chris – I like meat pies and things. Although that’s like an Australian thing, you do meat pies as well but we do them better.
Q. Which other fairy tale character would you like to play?
Chris – Cinderella… I’d like to play Cinderella!
Kristen – I’d like to play Mowgli. Chris can be my Baloo.
Chris – That is awesome! Man that would be so sick! I’d be the bear. I love it in the cartoon where Baloo and his friend cry at the end , then they skip off into the sunset together. (starts singing bear necessities)
Kristen – I am so on by the way, if you are!
Q. Last question, if you hadn’t become actors what would you be doing?
Kristen – I’ve grown up loving movies. My parents are both in the business and if I couldn’t act I’d still want to be making movies that’s it for me. But if I wasn’t allowed that answer, I’d just do the normal thing and go to school and figure it out like everyone else
Chris – Well the reason I started doing this was because I had a different idea every week. It’s was like, hey I want to be a professional surfer, and then I wanted to be a fire-fighter, a lawyer, then a doctor. Every week people were like so Chris what are you doing now? It was like oh you want to get to the Olympics now, that’s cool for this week. Good luck ! In reality I’d probably attempt to do lots of other things and fail and then find myself right back here pretending to do things.
Thanks so much and congratulations on the film, we look forward to SWATH Part 2.
Kristen Stewart Interview Snow White and the Huntsman World Premiere
At last night’s premiere of Snow White and the Huntsman, beautiful Twilight star Kristen Stewart walked the green carpet in London’s Leicester Square. She spent a lot of time meeting fans and signing autographs, but she also spoke about her role in the incredible new fantasy adventure.
Here’s some of what she had to say:
Did you have any hesitation about taking on such an iconic role?
At first I was kind of surprised I was doing Breaking Dawn at the time. I didn’t want to focus on anything else I didn’t want to read anything. They were pushing this new project that was such a big opportunity and it was Snow White. I was like really? You really think that’s such a good idea. Then I came to realise very quickly that it was just such a new modern way of presenting someone now who is an ideal woman and kind of like someone who does more now than clean house and chirp at her birds.
Why do you think the time’s right for this version of Snow White?
I think Snow White is a great story to tell now because what we know her to do is she cleans out and chirps at the birds and all that. But you know times have changed ad if you’re going to tell the fairy tale now and make it effective you need to put her in a really dangerous world and see if she can survive and I think we do a pretty good job of doing that.
What makes her such a strong character?
It’s more about being this very steady very strong person that isn’t basically acting like a guy. I think nowadays that’s what everyone does. I think she’s so essentially female I love her I think that she’s awesome!
Do you think the new Snow White is a role model for girls?
It’s great that she can stand tall on her own and she doesn’t do some weird imitation of a guy, she’s so steady and strong. She doesn’t have to be like loud and in your face to get things done. It’s all about being strong in her mind.
But I think it really important not to just call them “girl power” movies. As soon as you qualify why you’re powerful as being “Oh you’re strong… for a girl” then it’s not really the world we live in any more
What’s the relationship like between your character and Chris Hemsworth’s Huntsman?
I think the Huntsman wakes her up and saves her absolutely. But at the same time she’s come to realise something before she’s passed that he’s given her a chance to assume in her real life.
It doesn’t really have anything to do with him it really is much more about realising that the light that you see that no one else does is there for a reason and that moment is just when it all clicks. It’s that Joan of Arc moment when all the voices in your head make sense.
Visually what can fans expect from the film?
There’s a lot going on visually. It’s why I wanted to do the movie first of all. I mean Rupert created a world I wanted to live in. Everyone thinks it’s all dark and twisted but it’s really beautiful and at times it’s so unbelievably stunning. That’s why it’s funny to me everyone thinks it’s this dark twisted version.
Rob just had his birthday what did you do to celebrate?
Well I wished him a very happy birthday of course… and there were some presents yeah!
And here’s what Kristen had to say during her On-Stage Interview :
What made you want to become Snow White?
I really like the fact we weren’t faking. I think it’s so much cooler to watch genuine discomfort on screen I can tell you most of the time I’m freezing my butt off or pulling some muscles. In this job is you want to get as close to the real experience as you can I think we did.
Chris Hemsworth has been telling everyone you knocked him out, how do you feel about that?
He’s a cry-baby that’s it! I didn’t mean to do it and he’s still holding this grudge. I don’t know what the deal is.
You kick-Ass in this film why did that appeal to you?
I wasn’t sure I could say ass I sad butt a second ago. I thought it was very awesome to play a girl powering movie whilst still remaining a girl. I think I’ve read a lot of scripts lately where it seems like girl power movies are just about girls imitating someone else. But I think it should be about trusting yourself instead. I think she represents that quite well
You really don’t like riding horses, was that your biggest challange?
I love horses. I love em I just don’t want to ride them. I think it’s important to have hurdles to get over. That was one of the reasons I wanted to do this move there’s a lot I was afraid of. You know I would rather feed them apples and watch them run around saddless. It’s really not my thing; it scared me so much I can’t even begin to tell you!
Chris Hemsworth Interview – Kristen Stewart hits harder than The Hulk
What excited you about becoming the Huntsman?
You know initially I made the assumption I knew the story and there was nothing more to tell but pretty soon after reading the script I realised it was something different; far more epic, visual and detailed than anything we’d seen before. There’s also a gothic element to it, this character is an open wound with lots of problems and conflict in him. That was unlike anything I’d tackled previously so it was nice to do something different.
You’re literally an action god in Avengers, how does The Huntsman compare?
This guy is a bit of a drunken mess in this movie. He can be nimble and effective with his weaponry but he’s not as sober as Thor was!
The real question is who hits harder, Hulk or Kristen?
Kristen because it was real! The Hulk’s one was just a nice bit of CGI and stuntwork.
How or why did Kristen hit you?
We were shooting this scene and basically Snow White throws a punch at the Huntsman, its supposed miss. But one take we got a little too close and bam right on the nose! If a fight was to have continued I wanted no part of it. I was out for the count; she really packs quite a punch for such a small lady.
What’s Kristen Like to work with in General?
She’s dedicated, focused and committed. She’s playing a character that can’t have any sense of wavering when it comes to her objectives and neither does Kristen so it sort of fit perfectly. Both Kristen and Charlize, we all followed their lead.
Listen to the Interview below:
Charlize Theron Interview – Snow White and the Hunstman
Beautiful Oscar winning actress Charlize Theron spoke to us on the green carpet at the world premiere of new fairy tale movie Snow White and the Huntsman, co-starring Kristen Stewart, & Avengers action god Chris Hemsworth. Here’s what she had to say about her role as the Evil Queen.
What made you want to become the Evil Queen ?
I think it was the world and making this film in its entirety that was exciting to me.
Your Character is pretty villainous but she’s also surprisingly vulnerable and fragile. Can you talk a bit about the different layers you put into Ravana?
I mean she’s real and we wanted her to be a Human Being, we wanted her to feel like someone who was really struggling with her conflict.
Is it more liberating to play someone who is a little more villainous sometimes?
I don’t know I think of them as people who are just struggling in different ways, have different objectives and are trying to get different things. I like to think of hem more that way than just good or bad, because I don’t think any of us are just one thing, we’re all a combination of so many things.
You’ve taken darker roles lately in this film, Young Adult and Prometheus is there a particular reason for that or is it just the way things are going?
No, there’s no special reason, they’re all such different roles really. You can’t compare the world of Young Adult they’re such different movies. It’s the same with Prometheus; they’re just very different environments that the characters find themselves in ad that’s really what sets the tone.
How does it feel to step into a massive fanbase with a film like Prometheus?
Look it’s flattering but I can’t really think about it. It’s just so great and really sweet. I’m just incredibly grateful for that. But it is a little intimidating of course.
Do you still get a buzz walking the red carpet?
You know what it’s still the same as far as the anxiety and nerves. I don’t think that ever goes away because it’s a lot of attention, but it is moving that everyone came out here to support us and this film. They camped out overnight here in the rain. That always always amazes me
You can Listen to the interview below: