- Martin, your life somehow changed lately due to your roles in the series "Sherlock" and "Fargo" and the film "Hobbit", all of which are very successful?
- All these projects, of course, influenced my life. And I must say, influenced very well, I like it. I feel like a very lucky person who was lucky to participate in all this at the same time. This is incredible. Yes, of course, my life has changed: I became more busy.
- People on the streets call you Bilbo?
- Yes, sometimes it happens. There was a time when I was all called Tim named my hero from the TV series "Office". But for a long time they turn to me as Martin Freiman, which I am very happy. But, of course, Bilbo is also called me too.
- Can you say that they are cried with Bilbo?
- Not. Although he is always in my head. We recently recorded voice acting, the latest movie dialogues. And of course, I had to psychologically and emotionally remember how I played these scenes. If someone places a gun to my head and says: "Show me Bilbo," I can play it. But I can not say that we are with him one whole. I did not have such a feeling with any character I've ever played.
"You didn't seem funny that Benedict Cumberbatchch, your partner on the series" Sherlock ", in the" Hobbit "played a dragon?
- Yes and no. It seems to me that he approached this role very well. And I would still think so much, even if we were not filmed together in Sherlock. Yes, there is a feeling that our screen relationships are pursued. But in fact, we have not seen so often. Even when our dialogues with him were recorded, I did not communicate with Benedict, but with a person who pronounced his phrases for him.
- What can you tell about Peter Jackson as directed?
- I was always struck by his ability to keep all three films in my head at one time. And with the ease of them to juggle. To know what needs to be done now, but what will need to do after five scenes, to imagine how this blow will reflect, who is being filmed now, in the scene, which will be filmed in four hours. It is difficult to describe how it all stacked in his head. And how in a person I am surprised in St. Petersburg, how he managed to live in constant stress, very little sleep. From the outside it seems that he is very good with all this copes. So I admire them not only and not as much as the director, but as a man. I do not understand how he had no nervous breakdown.
- Do you talk closely with him?
- Yes, we constantly conduct a correspondence by email. But it is impossible to say that we are the best friends. We live too far from each other. I love him, worrying for him, I like to communicate with him. It seems to me that he is a good man. (Laughs.)
- Did you manage to make yourself not read reviews on the first two films?
- Yes, managed. I trained myself for years not to read reviews, because they do not bring benefits. It is clear that when you sit on the Internet, five seconds do not pass, how to buy on some positive or negative opinions about yourself, without even entering your name in the search. It somehow accidentally snatches. And some opinions can very upset. But I try to avoid it. I recently played in the play "Richard III" and did not read any lines about it.
- During the filming of the film "Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Mitches" was some scenes in which you most liked to act?
- I really liked the battle scene with James Nebitt, who played Bofur. I like to fight. I am not a big professional in this, although in the school of dramastemes I was very good in staged fights. But if you are not an action-actor - and I'm not at all of their number, - you do not need to be able to know much. I had very good dubers. But I always think: if you can do something yourself, you need to do. So when I had the opportunity to fulfill some trick, without bringing the insurance company to madness and not at risk of getting a trauma, which will choose me out of the rut for a week, I did everything myself.
- Besides, Bilbo should not be an experienced fighter.
- Yes, should not. He never became a warrior, but he became much more smashed. And quite succeeded in fights.
- He is no longer the timid hobbit, which was at the beginning?
- Not. If he had remained, it would be very boring to play and boring to look at it. In this and the chapter of history that he becomes completely different, from the naive character turns into a wise experience of the hero.
- You probably can now say that I know Ian McCellen very well, who performed the role of Gandalf?
- He is a delightful man. We really spent a lot of time together. I trusted him my children. And I actually do not trust anyone to sit with my children. He is very good, I love it. And very cheerful. And a wonderful actor. Next to him you want to be better. All scenes with Gandalf delivered me great pleasure.
- How was the last day of filming the picture? What are your feelings?
- I was sad, and it surprised me. I am very emotional and sentimental person, and acutely react to many things. But the completion of filming never upsets me. I like it when the end of some kind of business comes. This is normal. If someone said to me that I would now Bilbo the rest of my life, it would be a nightmare. The same with other characters, with John Watson, including. I do not want to play someone all my life. But on the last day of the filming of the "Hobbit", I finished my scenes earlier than Richard Armedia and Graze Maktavisha. And when I left the site, they said: "With you it was nice to work," and the voices were drown. And I was overwhelmed with emotions. I thought: "That's all over. We will no longer work on this film. " That is, on the one hand, and well, that ended. And on the other, this picture still changed us much. "Hobbit" will forever remain in our lives, I know that I will talk about it to a deep old age. But on the last day of work, I unexpectedly felt herself crushed. And in the eyes of all the people who approached me to say goodbye, there were tears, as well as me.