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Originally posted by tacfoley:
Well, I've already bought my replacement car license plates WITHOUT that freakin' halo of stars denoting membership of the EU.

Congratulations, tac, and to your countrymen (and women).

I would like to heartily second this. Enjoy the victory!

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Farage is more reflective in this video

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Originally posted by PASig:
Video of the UK's Union Flag being removed at Brussels

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Benedict Cumberbatch on playing my husband, Dominic Cummings

When Channel 4 released the trailer for its new Brexit drama, Mary Wakefield was struck by how good the performances were

Mary Wakefield

Imagine looking at a photo of a stranger and feeling in response, quite naturally, the sort of happy affection you might feel towards a spouse. Well, it’s weird. In July this year, when Benedict Cumberbatch was filming Channel 4’s upcoming Brexit film (Brexit: The Uncivil War) a friend sent me some photos by text message, tabloid snaps from the set. Benedict plays my husband Dominic Cummings, director of the Leave campaign, and the shots were long-lens and hazy: Ben/Dom pushing his son on a swing; Ben/Dom kissing his wife.

The real son-of-Dom and I were halfway through our Rice Krispies when the photos came through and I remember how taken aback I was. It’s not that they look alike. ‘We have different shaped heads,’ Cumberbatch tells me later. ‘Dom’s taller than me, I think, and he’s got a more prominent jaw. A bit of an underbite.’

But the stance, the set of the head and hands, the posture, were all perfect. ‘Who’s that?’ I said to my two-year-old, handing him the phone. He looked back at me as if I were mad: ‘Dada. That’s Dada, Mum.’

I haven’t seen the movie yet. I expect there’ll be a great fuss over details of the plot. There are those whose sanity depends on thinking Russians and robots fixed the referendum and that Dom’s intrinsically evil. I’ll be thinking: how can one man simply transform into another? Why and how can humans do this? And: I just never expected this after Benedict came round for dinner.

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It was a hell of a thing watching Benedict Cumberbatch prepare to play my husband. He sat down opposite Dom at about 8.30 p.m. that summer evening in what I imagine is a very Cumberbatchian pose: legs folded beneath him, alert, leaning forward, head up. ‘Just water please, I don’t really drink.’ By 10.30 he was leaning back, just like Dom, glass of red in hand. By 1 a.m. he was a mirror image of his subject. It was a Rorschach blot of a scene. Both men reclining, each with an arm behind their head.

‘I noticed the way Dom holds his hand over his head,’ Cumberbatch says. ‘The way he strokes his head a lot. And he rests the crook of his elbow at the top of his skull. He opines strongly, but he listens deeply too. What else? That soft “R”. I don’t know if it’s Durham or something specific to Dom. He’s got a different shape jaw to me, so the accent wasn’t easy.’

So your actual mouth shape affects the accent? ‘It absolutely does, yes. It would be very hard for me to maintain that accent without some sort of surgery, and I don’t think I’d go that far!’ He laughs.

When I left them there in the kitchen in the early hours of the morning, Cumberbatch was genuinely trying to understand Dom’s view of Brexit. How do you begin to get into a character with very different ideas to your own? ‘To start with you lean in — you have a natural empathy, I think. I am not saying this just for you, but for me I feel a natural empathy towards the character I played and I liked the idea of trying to inhabit part of their lives, intellectually and also physically as well. I enjoy that process of transformation and chipping away from myself into a person’s outlook.’

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The morning after our night with Benedict Cumberbatch, Dom said he’d had great fun talking to his alter ego. However the film turned out, he said he didn’t know many MPs who were as well-informed and pleasant.

When I spoke to Cumberbatch last week, we didn’t talk about the rights and wrongs of Brexit. I’m tired to my bones of the EU row. It’s like a pointless game of cards: you play your picture of a co-operative, civilised EU; I play my picture of a dystopian future. You play your picture of an angry racist Leaver; I play mine of a corrupt MEP claiming expenses no one ever checks.

But it seems to me a beacon of hope that someone who believes in the EU is willing to inhabit the skin of someone who doesn’t. That’s sort of what we all need to do right now, isn’t it? I ask Cumberbatch.

‘Well possibly,’ he says. ‘I am very wary of coming across as being wordy or preachy, but it’s really about listening to each other, all of us. And to inhabit someone else’s point of view is part of the way of going towards that.’

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Originally posted by PASig:
Video of the UK's Union Flag being removed at Brussels

28 EU member flags on the wall
28 EU member flags
You take the UK's down
And pass it around
27 EU member flags on the wall


27 EU member flags on the wall
27 EU member flags
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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
I admittedly don't know much about the politics of Brexit, but know enough that Great Britain leaving the EU is a GOOD thing. Congratulations to my fellow Patriots across the pond!!

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