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美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Stranger Things' Star David Harbour Will Take Messy Over Perfect Any Day

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'Stranger Things' Star David Harbour Will Take Messy Over Perfect Any Day

NOEL KING, HOST:

It's an explosive Fourth of July in the little town of Hawkins, Ind., but I'm not talking about fireworks.

(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "STRANGER THINGS")

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character, speaking over walkie-talkie, unintelligible1.)

(SOUNDBITE OF ROARING)

KING: You know what that music means. Mike, Eleven and their little gang of brave nerds are back. "Stranger Things" Season 3 is out today. So a monster from the Upside Down dimension is terrorizing the town again, and Police Chief Jim Hopper has his hands full. He has adopted Eleven. She's now a teenager who not only has superpowers, she also has her first boyfriend.

(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "STRANGER THINGS")

DAVID HARBOUR: (As Jim Hopper) Hey. Hey, 3-inch minimum. Leave the door open 3 inches. El, open this door.

FINN WOLFHARD: (As Mike Wheeler) What's wrong?

KING: Actor David Harbour plays Chief Hopper in the show, and Harbour says saving the world from monsters seems easier than being a dad.

HARBOUR: As bad as the superpowers were in Season 2, the boyfriend is 10 times worse in Season 3.

KING: (Laughter) Yeah, you mix hormones2 in and everything...

HARBOUR: (Laughter).

KING: ...Talk about the Upside Down, right?

HARBOUR: Yeah, exactly.

KING: So I wonder, you've been working with these child actors. This is Season 3 now. Is it weird3 watching them grow up, I mean, watching them get tall and skinny and turn into awkward teenagers, not just little kids?

HARBOUR: Yeah, I mean, weird is not even the word. It's sort of profound, you know? I mean, there are - and that, I think, is one of the most amazing things of the show this season. You watch the kids grow up in real time, and you feel the passage of time more strongly than anything you could write or act.

When they started, like, I used to look at them as - especially, I don't know. I pick on him all the time. But I remember little Finn Wolfhard...

KING: (Laughter).

HARBOUR: ...With his little, pudgy face and tiny stature4. And now he's like a rock 'n' roll god or something. He's got this band.

KING: This is Mike.

HARBOUR: Yes, this is Mike.

KING: He's tall and skinny...

HARBOUR: Yes, but...

KING: ...And good haircut.

HARBOUR: ...He's got chiseled5 features, and he's just, like, dreamy.

KING: (Laughter).

HARBOUR: So, yeah, I mean, it's very strange. And, like, I sort of mirror Hopper in a sense, where I started off with them trying to be very separate, you know, even with my work. I just wanted to be apart from them. And then as the show grows and they grow and they become more of who they are, we've gotten closer and closer.

KING: Do you give them advice, like teenagers...

HARBOUR: Sure, but they don't listen.

KING: Yeah.

HARBOUR: I mean, I don't know that they're not listening to us. That would be unfair, but I think that, as young artists, they're getting so much success. And I really want them to be the next - you know, I want Millie to be the next Meryl Streep. And I want Finn to be the next Daniel Day Lewis. And I want - I mean, I have these desires for them to be the great actors of the next generation.

And I feel like that takes work, and it takes development. And it takes acting7 classes. Even when you're paid a lot and well respected for your acting and even when it's good, at a certain level, it still takes development of that tool, of that - that, you know, toolbox.

KING: Well, we should know that you are, like, a capital A, Actor. You've done a lot of stage work. You've played a lot of serious roles. When you were coming up, did you want to be famous, or did you just want to be an actor?

HARBOUR: Well, I - of course, in the back of my mind, there was a draw to fame.

KING: Yeah.

HARBOUR: I looked at the celebrities8 that I grew up with, you know, Harrison Ford9 or Gene6 Hackman and these guys. And I looked at them as a sort of American royalty10. And then, as I've progressed, along that line, it's become more and more apparent that, you know, I want to be the messy artist that I always dreamed of being when I was a kid.

KING: Do you mean messy with your life, messy with your work, like, what...

HARBOUR: I mean messy with my work.

KING: Yeah, yeah.

HARBOUR: Especially as we move forward with these superhero movies and all this sort of zeitgeist of things happening, there's a temptation to be more beautiful and more capable. And I've always been drawn11 to characters that are less than capable, that make me feel not alone in my weirdness12, in the fact that I don't always fit in and the fact that I don't always do the right thing and in all these sort of ways.

That sort of mess, I want to bring to the screen so that people can maybe feel deeper empathy for others. We're all a bit of a mess. I mean, we're all kind of chaotically13 struggling to get through this life in various forms. And there's a lot of joy in that and a lot of sadness and a lot of all kinds of different emotions.

So I've always wanted to portray14 that much more than to be someone who people looked at as perfect.

KING: Well, I'll tell you something. You're doing it really well.

HARBOUR: Thanks.

KING: There's this moment in Season 3. Chief Hopper, you know, he's the chief. He's got a daughter now, but he still lives in a cabin in the woods.

HARBOUR: (Laughter).

KING: Then he gets stood up on a dinner date in a fancy restaurant. So I'm watching this last night. I'm going to tell you the truth. I started crying.

HARBOUR: Oh, no. Really?

KING: I felt terrible for him.

HARBOUR: Oh, that's amazing (laughter).

KING: I said, this poor guy in his fancy - he put on, like, a Hawaiian-print shirt, and he's sitting at the restaurant alone. I felt terrible about that, but it sounds like you're saying that's the art, right there (laughter).

HARBOUR: Oh, yeah. Oh, absolutely. Oh, I love that you had that response.

KING: Oh, gosh.

HARBOUR: That's so generous of you as a human being.

(LAUGHTER)

HARBOUR: I mean, I think one of the most fun things about this season is that, you know, in the first season, we sort of unpacked16 how he had been a man of justice, and he wasn't anymore. And he had to reawaken that. In the second season, we sort of unpack15 this fact that he was - he had been a father at one point, and he had to unpack that.

And so in this season, he kind of chaotically goes about how to become a man again. And one of those things is, yeah, he subconsciously17 is responding to television like "Magnum P.I." I mean, he shaves his beard into a mustache. He buys an '80s-type outfit18, and he tries to be like a modern, cool guy. And it doesn't succeed very well. But I like that he's trying. I love that.

KING: Yeah.

HARBOUR: I think that's very beautiful about him.

KING: I have a question for you - Season 1, deep cut, real fans are going to get it. Do you still want justice for Barb19?

(LAUGHTER)

KING: Because I...

HARBOUR: Oh, we're going to go there.

KING: (Laughter).

HARBOUR: We're going to go there.

KING: Barb, we should say for people who have not obsessively20 watched the show as I have, is the best friend of the character Nancy, a teenage girl whose younger brother is one of the main characters. And Barb goes missing in Season 1 and just meets a terrible fate, and it's all very unfair.

HARBOUR: (Laughter) It's so funny. I was just thinking about that the other day. She was such a great character, and I think each season gets better, and especially this season I think is so beautiful and epic21 and profound. And I was like, oh, we can't get any better than this. And the only thing I thought was, I kind of wish Barb was around.

KING: Yeah.

HARBOUR: (Laughter) Like that was the only...

KING: It would be...

HARBOUR: It would be...

KING: ...Better if she was here (laughter).

HARBOUR: Right? She makes everything a little better.

KING: David Harbour plays Police Chief Jim Hopper in "Stranger Things." Season 3 starts on Netflix today. David, thanks so much for coming in. We appreciate it.

HARBOUR: Thank you. That was great. Appreciate it.

(SOUNDBITE OF KYLE DIXON AND MICHAEL STEIN'S "STRANGER THINGS THEME")


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1 unintelligible sfuz2V     
adj.无法了解的,难解的,莫明其妙的
参考例句:
  • If a computer is given unintelligible data, it returns unintelligible results.如果计算机得到的是难以理解的数据,它给出的也将是难以理解的结果。
  • The terms were unintelligible to ordinary folk.这些术语一般人是不懂的。
2 hormones hormones     
n. 荷尔蒙,激素 名词hormone的复数形式
参考例句:
  • This hormone interacts closely with other hormones in the body. 这种荷尔蒙与体內其他荷尔蒙紧密地相互作用。
  • The adrenals produce a large per cent of a man's sex hormones. 肾上腺分泌人体的大部分性激素。
3 weird bghw8     
adj.古怪的,离奇的;怪诞的,神秘而可怕的
参考例句:
  • From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来,他好像有点怪。
  • His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
4 stature ruLw8     
n.(高度)水平,(高度)境界,身高,身材
参考例句:
  • He is five feet five inches in stature.他身高5英尺5英寸。
  • The dress models are tall of stature.时装模特儿的身材都较高。
5 chiseled chiseled     
adj.凿刻的,轮廓分明的v.凿,雕,镌( chisel的过去式 )
参考例句:
  • Woltz had chiseled the guy, given him peanuts for the book. 乌尔茨敲了这个作家的竹杠,用了他的书,却只给微不足道的一点点钱。 来自教父部分
  • He chiseled the piece of wood into the shape of a head. 他把这块木头凿刻成人头的形状。 来自辞典例句
6 gene WgKxx     
n.遗传因子,基因
参考例句:
  • A single gene may have many effects.单一基因可能具有很多种效应。
  • The targeting of gene therapy has been paid close attention.其中基因治疗的靶向性是值得密切关注的问题之一。
7 acting czRzoc     
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
参考例句:
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
8 celebrities d38f03cca59ea1056c17b4467ee0b769     
n.(尤指娱乐界的)名人( celebrity的名词复数 );名流;名声;名誉
参考例句:
  • He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
  • a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目
9 Ford KiIxx     
n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
参考例句:
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
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n.皇家,皇族
参考例句:
  • She claims to be descended from royalty.她声称她是皇室后裔。
  • I waited on tables,and even catered to royalty at the Royal Albert Hall.我做过服务生, 甚至在皇家阿伯特大厅侍奉过皇室的人。
11 drawn MuXzIi     
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的
参考例句:
  • All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
  • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
12 weirdness 52f61ae314ff984344d402963b23d61f     
n.古怪,离奇,不可思议
参考例句:
  • The weirdness of the city by night held her attention. 夜间城市的古怪景象吸引了她的注意力。
  • But that's not the end of the weirdness feasible in evolutionary systems. 然而这还不是进化系统居然可行的最怪异的地方呐。
13 chaotically 95f7438d0994f27e43fcab072976fd5e     
参考例句:
  • His thoughts churned chaotically in his brain like snowflakes whirling about in the north wind. 头脑里,情思弥漫纷乱像个北风飘雪片的天空。 来自汉英文学 - 围城
  • In metal the atoms are arranged not chaotically but in even rows, forming a crystal lattice. 在金属里,原子并不是杂乱无章地排列而是排成平整的行列,构成一个晶格。 来自辞典例句
14 portray mPLxy     
v.描写,描述;画(人物、景象等)
参考例句:
  • It is difficult to portray feelings in words.感情很难用言语来描写。
  • Can you portray the best and worst aspects of this job?您能描述一下这份工作最好与最坏的方面吗?
15 unpack sfwzBO     
vt.打开包裹(或行李),卸货
参考例句:
  • I must unpack before dinner.我得在饭前把行李打开。
  • She said she would unpack the items later.她说以后再把箱子里的东西拿出来。
16 unpacked 78a068b187a564f21b93e72acffcebc3     
v.从(包裹等)中取出(所装的东西),打开行李取出( unpack的过去式和过去分词 );拆包;解除…的负担;吐露(心事等)
参考例句:
  • I unpacked my bags as soon as I arrived. 我一到达就打开行李,整理衣物。
  • Our guide unpacked a picnic of ham sandwiches and offered us tea. 我们的导游打开装着火腿三明治的野餐盒,并给我们倒了些茶水。 来自辞典例句
17 subconsciously WhIzFD     
ad.下意识地,潜意识地
参考例句:
  • In choosing a partner we are subconsciously assessing their evolutionary fitness to be a mother of children or father provider and protector. 在选择伴侣的时候,我们会在潜意识里衡量对方将来是否会是称职的母亲或者父亲,是否会是合格的一家之主。
  • Lao Yang thought as he subconsciously tightened his grasp on the rifle. 他下意识地攥紧枪把想。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译
18 outfit YJTxC     
n.(为特殊用途的)全套装备,全套服装
参考例句:
  • Jenney bought a new outfit for her daughter's wedding.珍妮为参加女儿的婚礼买了一套新装。
  • His father bought a ski outfit for him on his birthday.他父亲在他生日那天给他买了一套滑雪用具。
19 barb kuXzG     
n.(鱼钩等的)倒钩,倒刺
参考例句:
  • The barb of his wit made us wince.他那锋芒毕露的机智使我们退避三舍。
  • A fish hook has a barb to prevent the fish from escaping after being hooked.鱼钩上都有一个倒钩以防上了钩的鱼逃走。
20 obsessively 0c180424cba71c2e5a90cdda44a64400     
ad.着迷般地,过分地
参考例句:
  • Peter was obsessively jealous and his behaviour was driving his wife away. 彼得过分嫉妒的举止令他的妻子想离他而去。
  • He's rude to his friends and obsessively jealous. 他对他的朋友很无礼而且嫉妒心重。
21 epic ui5zz     
n.史诗,叙事诗;adj.史诗般的,壮丽的
参考例句:
  • I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗,而写了这个小故事。
  • They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。
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