黄金配角“虫尾巴”饰演英国最牛风景画画家特纳

British actor Timothy Spall may be popularly known as Peter Pettigrew in the "Harry Potter" franchise or Winston Churchill in The King's Speech, but now in his latest biographical movie, he plays one of the greatest artists in history, J.M.W. Turner. "I had a little bit of information about the fact that he was an incongruous genius, that the work that you saw and the man who did it were actually in a sense contradictory and that led on us the path to find out how absolutely contradictory he was.Originally it was a barrier, but once we broke through that barrier we realized that that was his key, not his impediment." Following the last 25 years of the painter's life, the movie Mr Turner portrays him as an enigma, who doted on his father yet derided the woman with whom his affair resulted in two daughters. Meanwhile, Turner also took his housekeeper for granted, while he developed a close bond with a woman he eventually lived with by the sea in Chelsea, where he died. The film, which was the official selection from this year's Cannes Film Festival, is the work of the director Mike Leigh. He says like many of his characters, Turner was perplexing. " He can be very much a man who celebrates and enjoys solitude, but at the same time, when you see him going into - with these mates at the Royal Academy - he is both an insider and still an outsider. He's very complex." In one of the more dramatic scenes of the film, Turner has himself tied to the mast of a ship for the inspiration behind his famous work about a snowstorm. As a boater who navigated the North Sea and a man who painted a copy of Turner's work, Spall says he clearly got the emotion of the scene. "The combination of my experience at sea and learning about how to paint like - attempt to paint like Turner - I understood that whether he was on top of the mast or whether he was on the bottom of it or what but he had experienced totally, viscerally, emotionally an experience, which resulted in that magnificent masterpiece." Spall is winning critical acclaim for his portrayal of Turner. He snapped Best Actor at 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was recently named Best Actor by the NY Film Critics Circle Awards. "Mr. Turner" opens in limited release in New York and Los Angeles on Dec. 19. For Studio Plus, this is Wu You.