After making a lot of noise about resisting the call of mainstream Hollywood, Noomi Rapace has finally given in and will be making her English-language debut as Sherlock’s female foil. Official details are sparse, but Rapace has let a few tidbits slip as to what we can expect from her character.
“I’m doing a lot of research about gypsies,” she told ScreenRant recently. “I’m going to Paris to visit some gypsy camps, and I’m going to Transylvania to actually see how they live. (Apparently) they live pretty much the same now as they did then, and they keep in the traditions and all of that, so when you go to Transylvania, for example, they live pretty close to the way they lived hundreds of years ago. So I’m listening to gypsy music and I’m learning to sing and dance.”
So, just to clarify, she’s a gypsy. That’s about all we know at this stage, but given Rapace’s previous work in the Millenium trilogy, we’d wager her character will know how to handle herself.
Her character’s origins are interesting though. Would Holmes’ path cross with a French traveller in London, or would such a meeting have to happen a little further afield?
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ChrisWootton
Dec 9th 2010, 12:47
Jared Harris, whose most notable big-screen performance to date was a small role in The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. He was the grown up WIll in Lost in Space and had one the meatier roles in Happiness, not to mention Natural Born Killers and Dead Man. Christ he's been around for yonks and has had much more screen time than you give him credit for
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jonnysniperuk
Dec 10th 2010, 13:39
Lets be honest though the average cinema-goer will most probably only have seen Benjamin Button and maybe Lost In Space but lets be honest that isn't exactly memorable and when you consider that Sherlock Holmes was a 12a then you need to consider that quite a large amount of youngsters would have seen it and would have no idea that Natural Born Killers or Dead Man exist and as such the Benjamin Button reference is pretty correct dependent on whether you look at it from an "average Joe" point of view or the point of view of an intellectual cinema-goer.
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elijay
Feb 18th 2011, 13:05
I seem to remember Jared Harris quite clearly from 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse' as Dr Ashford. Surely, quite a few people will have seen that, as it would definitely be something the younger zombie-lovin' gaming folk are into?
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