To Think That Benedict Cumberbatch........

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Is a bit of a nob?
I get that actors don't want to be filmed and think its bad when people use mobiles in live theatre.
But its hardly 'mortifying' as he told his 'fans'
He wants to live in the real world, he may then understand the true meaning of mortifying.

Refreshing to see on the Same news item that a Beatles tribute band actively encourage people to film their show.

There is a genuine threat to creatives being able to defend their creative copyright if this is not challenged.
As someone who produces my own copyrightable content every day this is extremely close to my heart, and should be to yours if you value having world class drama and other creative industries in the UK.

He probably is a bit of a nob, the statistical probability of a very famous actor being one is probably quite high.

But he's right about people filming in the theatre. It's unutterably vulgar and naff.

As is filming anything which you should just be enjoying. There's something quite sad about seeing people so desperate to capture the moment that they're too busy filming it to actually experience it.

"Snipers in the Upper Circle would make people think twice."

Of course he said it in a dramatic way. He's an actor.

Agree with him. In this age of mobile phones and tablets with filming capabilities we seem to think we need to film absolutely every bloody thing we go to, view or experience. People need to learn to live in the moment a little and enjoy and experience what they are watching rather than filming it.

Totally agree with him. The whole company has worked for months to rehearse and it is very very distracting .

'The whole company has worked for months to rehearse'. Poor darlings. Actors are very annoying.

Acting is actual work you know. They don't spend all day swanning around giving air kisses and being a luvvie.

I've worked in theatre, they put in long and intense hours in the rehearsal room.

Squoosh
Yes. And the vast majority of them don't get much money.
Just because a small percentage of household names get paid a huge amount people seem to think it's a lucrative profession.
It really isn't.

Oh yes. Maybe 0.5% earn the kind of money Cumberbatch does. For most actors even the salary that a recurring role on a soap would bring is just pie in the sky.

It is actual work, kind of. They are still annoying, though.
Sorry, I am being annoying too.

And being in an audience with Extreme Fans can be maddening if you're just there for the play and don't share the shriekers' desire to get into the pants of the male lead. I've seen a few productions with Cillian Murphy in them in recent years, and he would be walking on stage in character while another actor was talking, to be greeted by excited shrieks from the front four rows.

But it is actual work, none of us would be able to watch TV or listen to the radio, go to the cinema, pantomime or theatre without actors. We don't all watch or listen to documentaries as our entire entertainment experience

Yes. The actors do sterling work. I doff my cap to them.
But they are also annoying. When they are not doing acting, there is something about actors that makes them annoying.

Do you know actors in RL? Or is it them being interviewed to talk about the things they are in, when they're promoting the product? The One Show and breakfast TV has got a lot to answer for

I have never forgotten a documentary about Hamlet on tv. They talked to (I'm pretty sure it was) Malcolm McDowell about MacBeth, and he talked about the subtext, what MacBeth was thinking and he went absolutely seamlessly into "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.....". It really brought home to me how much work acting was, how deeply you have to understand people and how incredibly well you need to know the play. Like writing an essay, except 100 times more.

So that's the learning the lines bit, and then you have to learn where and when to move, what to do with props; there's sooo much goes into a performance and oproduction.

Acting is work most definitely.

I do know them in RL, yes. I have not seen the One Show and do not watch breakfast TV. I imagine being interviewed to promote a 'product' must be stressful.

Well, yes. But we are all dealing with subtexts all the time. If anyone was interviewed about their life and the nuances in it, that would be interesting too. Like writing an essay but 100 times more? That's life, isn't it? I can't act, there is definately something people who can are able to do.

I used to live in a shared house with a load of actors/ dancers/ performers/ trainee stage managers etc when I first lived in London, a long time ago. It was just like being in the halls of residence I'd left as they were still students. None are famous, 20 years on. They were all looking for that big break and I wonder if they're still in their chosen profession, or gave up and retrained.

I don't watch breakfast TV very often or The One Show either, but it has an unmistakable theme tune once heard never forgotten