SaraJ: переводы

→Steven (as they continue to look at photos of fans’ messages): It’s extraordinary, though, isn’t it? We can sit in our rooms and come up with stuff that has this happening round the world.

→Benedict: It’s slightly strange. There’s a bubble of near, kind of, adrenaline panic that goes through you, like there is with live theatre, because you are suddenly in front of a live audience.

→Mark: It’s that lovely thing of generating new content around it. It’s the sort of thing that got us into writing.

→The show ends with sound bites from various fans outside North Gower Street.

→Sue: It’s weird, ’cause when we first started shooting Sherlock, we were filming around Trafalgar Square, and Piccadilly Circus, and we could film and nobody would even notice us there at all. We’ve just recently been to North Gower Street, and we reckon there was between about six hundred and a thousand people turned up. The cast pull up and there’s a huge round of applause, and they get out; and then they’re all very quiet when we do a take; then they would applaud again when we finish.

→Lars: That’s what I’m trying to do, you know – not make him too big, but suck in the attention.

→Steven: This is one of the very few occasions we get Sherlock Holmes expressing hatred. Why does Sherlock hate him above a murderer? What Charles Augustus M does is he exploits people who are different, and exploits people who have secrets; and there’s something in Sherlock Holmes that just rises like a tiger in the face of it.

→Steven: Reading the stories – and Doctor Watson gets married between stories – and I remember as a kid just thinking, “Well, Sherlock Holmes must have been the best man.” There was no other option, ’cause Doctor Watson had exactly one friend! And thinking, “I wish we’d seen it.” Well, now we get to see it. And we had a long discussion about not caricaturing and not being silly. What would Sherlock Holmes do as a best man? Well, he’s a genius. He’s an accomplished genius. He’s a suave, accomplished genius and knows how to dress well. He’d be very, very good at it – but he’d still be Sherlock Holmes.

→Mark: But it’s also not a thing where you can respond to the fact that it has a massive international audience, ’cause shows go off the rails ...

→Amanda Abbington (on the living room set): She kind of gets in between the two of them, but she wants them to be together as well. So you see them, in Episode 2, they’re sort of not fighting crimes or solving things at the moment, so she sort of says ... (gesturing to an imaginary person to her right) “Well, look, why don’t you sort out a case for him?” and then ... (gesturing to another imaginary person on her left) “Why don’t you sort out a case for him?” and then she kind of pushes them together because she can see that they kind of miss each other.

→Benedict: I got told about the idea of bringing in Mary Watson, and I thought, “Well, okay, what’s that gonna do to the dynamic of them, and how’s she gonna figure? Is she gonna be a third cog in the wheel, or is she gonna be something separate?”

→Steven: I kind of think the pressure of having a huge, enthusiastic fan base is not pressure, it’s rather nice.