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‘We All Kind Of Fell A Bit In Love With It’: How Benedict Cumberbatch And His 'Eric' Castmates Felt About The Puppeteers On Set
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10/02/2025
Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch
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Now, Benedict, to your end, we not only get to see you play Vincent, but we also hear
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your voice as Eric, his creation, this big walk-around puppet monster.
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And I was very curious, what part of your previous mocap work on the Hobbit trilogy
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do you think best prepared you for playing a puppeteer, and what was the greatest lesson
00:19
you learned while doing specific prep for Eric?
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None of it, because, well, a bit of voice work, I suppose, although that was vocoded
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or whatever you call it, that was mixed a lot, whereas mine is as deep as I can get
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it as Eric.
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And I didn't do any...
00:36
The hand puppet work that you see me doing with Bug at the beginning of the show is very
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different to mocap work.
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Mocap work is a sort of extension of you via an avatar, so it is your kind of...
00:47
Your movements are creating the image.
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This is...
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It sort of becomes real at the end of your arm, if that makes sense.
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It's just slightly different, and you're looking at your work.
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You're seeing it on a screen.
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You're aware of yourself and what it's creating.
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It's a slightly different sensation.
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So no, it didn't help at all.
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It felt like a new skill, and a really difficult one to master.
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So we did as best as we could.
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I mean, I have to say, my team on that show were amazing, both the real puppeteers, but
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also the actors playing the gang in Good Day Sunshine, they were extraordinary, and they
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just threw themselves into it.
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We all kind of fell a bit in love with it and became a bit obsessed.
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Simon went out with a little puppet on a couple of club nights, I hear.
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I wasn't part of that experience, just, you know, talking away like that.
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It's joyous.
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It is joyous, despite the rich, dark sort of depths of this shadow self that is made
01:43
real in Eric of Vincent's kind of odyssey through hell, really.
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It is a joyous thing to be around Eric, as encapsulated by Ollie, who's actually in the
01:53
suit, was a real presence.
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All of us were kids when he was on set.
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I had a wonderful repartee with him, improvising lines.
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He was as quick an actor as he was a puppeteer.
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Very, very smart, brilliant performer, brilliant actor, and also a brilliant puppeteer.
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So it was a real entity for me to play off, and I enjoyed that enormously.
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