The Unexpected Adventures of Martin Freeman by Neil Daniels

Author:Neil Daniels [Daniels, Neil]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781784183370
Google: l7oRBwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1784183377
Publisher: John Blake
Published: 2015-04-01T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

THE HOBBIT IN NEW ZEALAND

‘When people call me an everyman they think it’s a compliment. I want to rip their fucking eyeballs out. I don’t want to be the cosiest man in Britain; it’s not the way I feel about the world or the job I do.’

FREEMAN SPEAKING TO BRUCE DESSAU IN THE LONDON EVENING STANDARD, 2005

2012 would bring some incredible opportunities to Freeman as he returned to Baker Street and also made a trip to Middle Earth in the great fantasy world of author J.R.R. Tolkien.

The writers of Sherlock, Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, came to the conclusion that they should rework three of Conan Doyle’s most well-known stories as the friendship between Holmes and Watson developed. Even Watson was brought in as the lead detective in episode two, ‘The Hounds Of Baskerville’, which was sandwiched between ‘A Scandal In Belgravia’ (aired 1 January 2012) and ‘The Reichenbach Fall’ (aired 15 January 2012) and was first shown on TV on 8 January 2012.

The series-two finale, ‘The Reichenbach Fall’, was Freeman’s favourite episode to film. He was very excited about it as soon as he’d read the script. The finished programme is superlative.

The Washington Post’s Hank Stuever said of Cumberbatch and Freeman, ‘He’s [Cumberbatch] quite something, all right, but I can’t be the only one who finds this particular version of Sherlock to be a little grating. He’d be almost unwatchable if it weren’t for the tender devotion and counterbalance Martin Freeman brings to the role of Watson.’

Den of Geek’s Louisa Mellor wrote, ‘Cumberbatch and Freeman remain a fantastic double act, with even more bickering and gags at their status as a couple this time around. There can’t be a greater pleasure on telly at the moment than seeing the look of arch disdain on Cumberbatch’s face dissolve into boyish giggles with Freeman on a sofa in Buckingham Palace, or in the back of a cab.’

As with any friendship, partnership or marriage, there is a familiarity between the pair and, as such, there is also contempt and love, compassion and everything else that is fuelled in a relationship. They’ve settled for each other. The relationship between Holmes and Watson is what the public have enjoyed about the series. It was a gratifying experience for both Freeman and Cumberbatch to see how much the characterisation between the two characters had progressed. The writing is excellent and, when the scripts are so good, that’s half the job done.

The duo may be best friends on screen but behind the camera, due to their busy schedules, they don’t have the closeness of Holmes and Watson.

‘We are very friendly [Benedict and I] and we’re good work colleagues but we’re also quite busy and I don’t really hang out with many of, or any of, my co-stars,’ Freeman admitted to Yahoo.

There’s a tendency for the public to think that actors hang out with each other and become lifelong friends after a film is made, which may be true in some cases but, for the most

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