mazarin221b:bakerstreetbabes:—————[Listen]  [Transcript] In Sherlock she was the dominatrix that bro

mazarin221b:bakerstreetbabes:—————[Listen]  [Transcript] In Sherlock she was the dominatrix that brought a nation to its knees. A far cry from the Adler of canon, but with the same essence of adventure and mischief. Lara Pulver’s Irene turned heads and caused controversy, and we feel that’s just what Adler of the canon would have wanted. Lara Pulver chats with Curly, Lyndsay, Maria, and Jenn about her turn as The Woman. We geek out about McQueen and  sexual identity, and reveal the secret to beating Benedict Cumberbatch at word games.Lyndsay & Curly do a brief introduction which has Star Trek casting spoilers for Benedict, so if you want to avoid that, skip to 10 minutes in.A full transcript of this episode is [HERE]Make sure you watch Sherlock on PBS Masterpiece: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/sherlock/ And follow along with our live tweets during the show! Next up is The Hounds of Baskerville!You can follow Lara on twitter at @larapulverLyndsay: I think the adaptation of Irene in the BBC series is amazing because originally, she’s an adventuress and that ethos comes through. It works brilliantly.Lara: It’s very different to make her a dominatrix. But I think there is also something where they really wanted to test putting Benedict’s Sherlock up against love and sex. They really wanted to see how that would culminate.Curly: That answers one of the questions one of our friends, Mazarin, had: The character of Irene Adler has been admired and reviled by turns over the history of the Sherlock Holmes fandom and she has been interpreted and re-interpreted for over 100 years. What was the most important thing about her character that you wanted to get across when it was your turn to play her?Lara: There were two things for me, based on what Steven had written. There was the mischief and the game aspect, and the match between the two of them psychologically. That really intrigued me because I think in 2012, we get very caught up in the physical aspect of the thing. You know, “did you get to third base with someone”, that sort of thing. It was really interesting to know that that wasn’t going to work. The other aspect that I was really intrigued with was allowing her to have some vulnerability. To see that mask slip, even if you saw it just for a glimmer.Curly: I think that’s really important because she’s obviously a very strong woman, but every person has their weaknesses and their vulnerabilities. I think that makes it more human.Lara: I think we all know that when people wear such strong masks, there’s a lot of fear normally bubbling underneath the surface to make that mask so strong and foolproof. I think just to have that moment on the show where her heart has literally been cracked open. I think it was really important for people to go “ah, okay…”. Like you said, it humanises her. I think it makes her a lot more accessible.Lyndsay: She’s beautifully vulnerable I think in the show. I was wondering: in the first episode of Season 1, there’s a line from Sherlock to John in which he says that the tricky thing about genius is that it needs an audience. I was curious to know if, since Irene and Sherlock mirror each other so perfectly and since that’s so beautifully written in Series 2, do you think that Irene is a slightly more lonely figure than Sherlock ultimately? She seems not to have that person in her life, at least as far as the episode goes. She seems not to have a John Watson to be not only the sounding board but the person who is the dissenting vote and is watching her be amazing.Lara:  I think she has a confidante and a kind of soulmate in Kate. But I think she operates on such a level that she’s never really… like, impressing people bores her, in a sense, I think. The act of being a dominatrix and playing those games with people, I think, in the same way it bores Sherlock when people are not of her intellect. I think she finds, for the first time, her audience in Sherlock, really.Babes: Good answer to that question.Lara: Great question. -- source link

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