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 And Emmy, two-time Tony winner Christine Baranski is lighting¹ up the big screen in the movie adaptation of Stephen Sondheim musical “Into the Woods”.

Our Deb Robert sat down with the star of the plays, one of the fairytale’s most evil characters.

 

“Ladies, our carriage waits.”

 

“Now may I go to the festival?”

 

“The Festival? Darling those nails; darling those clothes, the lentils are one thing but Darling, with those, you’d make us the fools of the Festival and mortify² the Prince! ”

 

“The festival lasts three nights. Surely you can let me be there for one of them.”

 

“The king is trying to find his sun a wife, not a scurry³ maid. We must be gone! Go!”

 

Christine, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. You are so mean! Where do you channel the wickedness? Where did you find them?

 

I don’t know where that mean has come through because I’m such a nice person. You know, I, I do, I played this deliciously -- mean characters who have great clothes, lots of attitude, great, the won liners. This has been my career. It’s been a pretty great ride, and you know, Cinderella’s wicked stepmother, you know, you got the blunt wigs⁴ a little too big. The clothes are a little too much, but they are fabulous⁵. The attitude, the carriage, the horses, the horse name…it was really fun. 

 

What do you think of the finished product?

 

Well, I adore Rob Marshall. I think he was the perfect director for this. I worked many times with Stephen Sondheim and there’s like, four productions, so like to get to do now a movie version of one of his greatest musicals. That’s just icing on the cake. I watched it just with, just with awe⁶. I think it’s such an incredible rendering⁷ of that great stage musical onto the screen. It’s visually so stunning⁸. 

 

The film is just really brilliant. 

 

It’s gonna be a great Christmas. 

 

You’ve been so much to it. 

 

Yeah.

 

Thank you so much. I’ve been looking forward to it.

 

“Into the Woods” opens nation wide on Christmas day.

1 lighting   

n.照明，光线的明暗，舞台灯光

参考例句：

• The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
• The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。

2 mortify   

v.克制，禁欲，使受辱

参考例句：

• The first Sunday,in particular,their behaviours served to mortify me.到了这里第一个星期，她们的行为几乎把我气死。
• For if ye live after the flesh,ye shall die:but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body,ye shall live.你们若顺从肉体活着必要死。若靠着圣灵治死身体的恶行必要活着。

3 scurry   

vi.急匆匆地走；使急赶；催促；n.快步急跑，疾走；仓皇奔跑声；骤雨，骤雪；短距离赛马

参考例句：

• I jumped on the sofa after I saw a mouse scurry by.看到一只老鼠匆匆路过,我从沙发上跳了起来。
• There was a great scurry for bargains.大家急忙着去抢购特价品。

4 wigs   

n.假发，法官帽( wig的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They say that wigs will be coming in again this year. 据说今年又要流行戴假发了。 来自辞典例句
• Frank, we needed more wigs than we thought, and we have to do some advertising. 弗兰克，因为我们需要更多的假发，而且我们还要做点广告。 来自电影对白

5 fabulous   

adj.极好的；极为巨大的；寓言中的，传说中的

参考例句：

• We had a fabulous time at the party.我们在晚会上玩得很痛快。
• This is a fabulous sum of money.这是一笔巨款。

6 awe   

n.敬畏，惊惧；vt.使敬畏，使惊惧

参考例句：

• The sight filled us with awe.这景色使我们大为惊叹。
• The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。

7 rendering   

n.表现，描写

参考例句：

• She gave a splendid rendering of Beethoven's piano sonata.她精彩地演奏了贝多芬的钢琴奏鸣曲。
• His narrative is a super rendering of dialect speech and idiom.他的叙述是方言和土语最成功的运用。

8 stunning   

adj.极好的；使人晕倒的

参考例句：

• His plays are distinguished only by their stunning mediocrity.他的戏剧与众不同之处就是平凡得出奇。
• The finished effect was absolutely stunning.完工后的效果非常美。