本尼迪克·康伯巴奇

In Britain， the second season of Sherlock has left millions of fans a season-ending cliffhanger， and transformed Benedict Cumberbatch from a well-regarded journeyman actor into a superstar.

Cumberbatch played dual roles as a necromancer and a talking dragon in Peter Jackson’s latest film adaptation of The Hobbit， which was shown in last December； and he also plays as the main villain of J. J. Abrams’s sequel to Star Trek， which will be seen in May 2013.

在英國，《神探夏洛克》第二季給數百萬劇迷留下了一個扣人心弦的結局。這部劇讓本尼迪克·康伯巴奇從一個廣受好評的演員成功轉型為超級巨星。

康伯巴奇在彼得·杰克遜最新的改編電影《霍比特人》中扮演兩個角色：一個巫師和一條會說話的龍，該片已于2012年12月上映；同時他將在杰弗里·艾布拉姆斯的《星際迷航》續集中出演主要反派，該片將于2013年5月上映。

What Cumberbatch can confirm is that these high-profile opportunities were made possible by the success of Sherlock， the mini series that casts him as a cool and contemporary upgrade of Sherlock Holmes.

In haphazard fashion Benedict Cumberbatch has spent the past 18 months ricocheting from role to role， in British stage productions like After the Dance and Frankenstein； a television version of Parade’s End； and films like The Hobbit， War Horse and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

康伯巴奇能夠確認的是，這些引人注目的機會全都由《神探夏洛克》的成功所賜，這部迷你劇將他打造成一個孤傲冷靜的當代升級版夏洛克·福爾摩斯。

過去的18個月里，康伯巴奇以一種無計劃的方式從一個角色過渡到另一個：參演英國舞臺劇諸如《舞會之后》和《弗蘭肯斯坦》、已開播的電視劇集《隊列之末》，還有電影《霍比特人》、《戰馬》和《鍋匠，裁縫，士兵，間諜》。

In December 2011， on vacation in Gloucestershire， England， Cumberbatch got the call that Abrams wanted him to submit a videotaped audition for “the not-so-good guy” （in Cumberbatch’s words） in the Star Trek sequel — but could not find anyone to film it for him.

In a friend’s kitchen late at night， an agitated and weary Cumberbatch recorded his audition on a phone — “I was pretty strung out，” he said， “so that went into the performance.” — and sent it to Abrams， only to be told the director was also on vacation. Abrams， who saw the recording a few days later and hired Cumberbatch， wrote in an e-mail that it was “one of the most compelling audition readings I’d ever seen.”

But Abrams already knew this from Cumberbatch’s work on Sherlock， whose second season drew around 10 million viewers in Britain for each of three 90-minute episodes shown in January 2012， according to the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board.

2011年12月在英格蘭格洛斯特郡度假時，康伯巴奇接到電話說艾布拉姆斯希望他能拍一個試鏡視頻，角色是《星際迷航》續集中“一個不太正派的人”（康伯巴奇這么形容）。但當時康伯巴奇找不到人幫他拍攝視頻。

某天夜里在一個朋友的廚房里，不安又疲倦的康伯巴奇用一部手機錄下了他的試鏡——“我當時已經累趴了，”他說，“所以把這種感覺帶進了表演里。”——把視頻發給艾布拉姆斯之后，卻被告知導演本人也在休假。艾布拉姆斯幾天后看到了那段視頻并決定邀他演出。艾布拉姆斯在電子郵件中寫道：“這是我見過最有說服力的試鏡演出之一。”

但艾布拉姆斯已通過康伯巴奇在《神探夏洛克》中的表演了解到了這一點。據廣播電視公司的收視率調查顯示，2012年1月《神探夏洛克》第二季的播出吸引了近千萬英國觀眾。該季總共三集，每集片長90分鐘。

Steven Moffat， the television producer who created Sherlock with Mark Gatiss， recognized unique qualities in Cumberbatch after seeing him play a quietly frightening character in Atonement.

“His look is quirky，” said Moffat. “His appeal is quite intellectual. He’s not conventionally handsome — handsome by any normal human standard. But the screen is very demanding.” Cumberbatch， he added， is “not ever going to play an ordinary man.”

史蒂文·莫法特，這位和馬克·蓋提斯共同創造出《神探夏洛克》的電視劇制作人，在看了康伯巴奇如何詮釋《贖罪》中的一個安靜得可怕的角色后，發現了他身上的特質。

“他長相奇特，”莫法特這么說，“他的吸引力就在于他的聰慧。他不屬于傳統意義上的英俊——至少不是普通人所認為的英俊。但鏡頭是很挑剔的。”他補充道，“康伯巴奇注定不會飾演一個普通人。”