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Martin Freeman - Blog Posts
-"Mon nom est Andrew Scott ! Je suis un acteur ! "
-"Vous êtes tous des acteurs !"
-"Vous êtes Martin FREEMAN !"
-"Vous vous appelez Bénedict CUMBERBATCH !"
-"NE M'APPELEZ PAS PAR CE NOM RIDICULE !"
My ovaries are exploding since 2012
happy birthday benedict cumberbatch! i love you
Henley Monday -
Hi everyone! I hope you're pulling through as best you can today. I'll keep it short and get straight to the henley point: How adorable is Martin Freeman here? Can you even handle it? I barely can.
He is every bit a classic, charming off-beat and insanely talented Brit who brings great joy to me in all his roles. He brings great joy to me here as well in such soothing blue tones with a cheeky little grin. Thanks for the pick-me-up Martin!
In my opinion one of the best and hilarious scenes ever!
“Meeting Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman
“Benedict (and his famous cheekbones) was suffering from a bad cold, but he sat down and got straight on with it. He was really interested in BSL and asked intelligent questions about how signs are created, and about people signing the wrong thing by mistake.
“A few weeks later, Anna and I sat in Martin’s comfortable kitchen and he made us a cup of tea and learnt his lines in BSL. We then watched him mixing up a bowl of food for one of his dogs. It was a very frosty morning and his children were running in and out with pieces of ice and frosted leaves to show him. It was so normal and homely. Martin picked up BSL remarkably quickly – unlike his character Dr Watson.”
Regarding posting pictures of Martin Freeman’s and Amanda Abbington’s children
I have recently found some pictures of their cildren on the web, some old ones that really should’t be there anymore and some new ones. I really hope that they are gone by now. It is not easy to alert the Freeman family whenever I accidentally see some of those pictures. I don’t feel very comfortable with writing to Amanda’s twitter account, as many can see my tweet. I really don’t want to get any attention, just alert them.
The privacy of an actor - and his family- is very important to me. I happened to see both Martin and Benedict walking in private in London (not together) and I just thought: No, let them walk as much in peace as they can, I can ask them for autographs at “official” events like a red carpet. They are people like you and me.Do you want to be secretly photographed when you have an outing with your children? I don’t think so.
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OMG that must have been frightening! Thank god for Martin’s quick reaction!
This happened to me in Giffoni on 7/19/15 (and of course the video is mine). I met this amazing man and he saved me and my friend’s life. Literally. I went to the Giffoni Film Festival to meet Martin Freeman aka the cutest person in the world. I was in first row and people were literally beasts: I still have bruises and I hurt everywhere. When he walked on the carpet to sign autographs I thought I was going to pass out or even die, people were so horrible and some girls were literally thrown out of the queue. So when he was right in front of me and my friend he saw that we were dying and we couldn’t breathe so he helped us and made people go back by saying “These girls can’t breathe, go BACK!”, he tried to calm us down, telling us to “BREATHE”, then he called the security. This man literally saved us. I’m still shaking at the thought of it. Thank you Martin.
Transcript of Martin Freeman’s reply to “Has any childhood experience influenced your success as an actor” 19.07.15
Martin Freeman:
I can’t think of one time, but I do... as a kid I was ill, I was small , my parents where divorced, I was the youngest of five.
You know, I don’t wanna paint myself as a Dickens victim, but I was not an Alpha male.
So you have to find other ways to, you know, succeedig I guess. I wasn’t able to beat anyone up at the playground, but I could make people laugh.
And I found that you can... you can get through in other ways. I was in and out of hospital for various things as a kid an I do think it really strenghtened me.
You know, I wouldn’t wish hospital on any child, but when things are difficult, when things aren’t ideal... well the old saying “ what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is very, very true and I think... I dunno wether those things mean... that means I’m successful.
I knew that life wasn’t going to... Even I’ve been lucky, but I knew that life just wasn’t going to give me a free path and everything was gonna fall into my lap. You have to work, but you have to also be sensitive and open and just recognize opportunities and things and people. And which people are good for you and which aren’t good for you.
But I know I always felt that I was a little kid with a dodgy leg and dodgy teeth and my parents where divorced - which wasn’t very common in an English Catholic school .
I kind of... I quite liked beeing a bit outside of all, I quite enjoyed that and I think that might have helped.
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Note: I’m not quite sure about some parts of that answer but I did my best to write down what Martin said :)
Sherlock's compliment for Watson always comes out sounding like an insult :D
