{"id":23042,"date":"2013-02-05T10:20:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T18:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=23042"},"modified":"2013-02-05T10:20:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T18:20:11","slug":"cumberbatch-inspiration-for-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2013\/02\/cumberbatch-inspiration-for-harrison\/","title":{"rendered":"Cumberbatch: Inspiration For Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For actor Benedict Cumberbatch<\/strong>, he didn’t have to look far to find inspiration for John Harrison.<\/p>\n

Although he looked at past terrorists, there was plenty of inspiration from modern day events, said Cumberbatch.<\/p>\n

“[Look at] real social history and present history, everything that’s going on: uprisings, people who are trying to spread democracy or fight their cause, not necessarily through political means,” said Cumberbatch. “[Harrison] is a terrorist, and sadly, that’s part of the fabric of our modern world. You don’t need to look far to research that one.”<\/p>\n

Cumberbatch did look at “certain terrorist groups in the past,” however, to see how those groups worked and carried out their actions.<\/p>\n

Cumberbatch may have used modern day events to figure out how to play a terrorist, but he was mindful of the need to have Harrison’s character ring true in Harrison’s own time frame, the Star Trek<\/em> future. “It was important to me to ground him in a reality that’s based more on his story than, say, a parallel in the real world,” said Cumberbatch.<\/p>\n

“What should certainly be chilling are the parallels to the modern world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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