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British actor Daniel Radcliffe (MARK VELTMAN/THE NEW YORK TIMES)
Now just a muggle, with song
and dance
JEUNE PREMIER. On l’a découvert enfant dans l’adaptation cinématographique du plus grand succès littéraire de ces dernières années. Aujourd’hui, Daniel Radcliffe a grandi et se lance dans une comédie musicale jouée à Broadway, un pari risqué mais nécessaire. Comment survivre à Harry Potter et faire, enfin, ses preuves en tant qu’artiste ?
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Now just a muggle, with song and
dance
Un simple moldu, mais qui chante et
qui danse
(dans l’univers d’Harry Potter, un moldu est une
personne ne possédant pas de pouvoirs
magiques)
to barrel (barreling, US= barrelling, GB) foncer / diner restaurant / wintry/wintery hivernal, glacial / desperately désespérément,
terriblement / to crave for avoir envie de / waffle
gaufre / bleary-eyed les yeux larmoyants /
scruffy débraillé / stubbly mal rasé/avec une
barbe de plusieurs jours / slightly légèrement /
winded essoufflé / to rush se ruer, se précipiter / previous précédent / leak fuite.
2. to slip se glisser / unnoticed inaperçu, incognito / backup de secours / location endroit /
threat menace / winkingly avec un clin d’oeil
/ to acknowledge reconnaître, avouer / travails
difficultés, épreuves / to tear, tore, torn into se
précipiter, se ruer sur / to power alimenter en
énergie / rehearsal répétition / musical comédie musicale / amount quantité / maple syrup
sirop d’érable / to freebase lit. chauffer de la
cocaïne et en inhaler la fumée, ici avaler, dévorer (comme un accro) / pint pinte.
24 • VOCABLE Du 14 au 27 avril 2011
BY DAVE ITZKOFF
EW YORK – The most famous 21-yearold on the planet came barreling into
a West Village diner one wintry February morning, desperately craving Belgian
waffles. He was bleary-eyed, scruffy and stubbly but energetic despite the early hour, and
slightly winded after rushing from the previous restaurant chosen for him, which was
closed because of a gas leak.
2. Slipping unnoticed into a backup location
that presented no imminent threat of explosion, he winkingly acknowledged his
morning’s travails – “You were trying to kill
me, weren’t you?” he said through a smile –
and before tearing into the breakfast that
would power him through that day’s rehearsals for his new Broadway musical, offered the following warning: “You will see
me probably drink an obscene amount of
maple syrup. I’ve never had maple syrup before about three weeks ago, and now I could
freebase it. Pints of it.”
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“How to succeed”. (SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES)
Growing up
3. It seems fair to say that Daniel Radcliffe
– who is about to leverage the decade he has
spent playing the title character in the “Harry
Potter” film series and take on the starring role
in a stage revival of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” – has not grown
up quite like any other young star before him
and has not turned out like anyone expected.
4. Certainly the success of the “Harry Potter”
movies, which were adapted from J.K. Rowling’s novels and have grossed more than $6.3
billion worldwide, has yielded unparalleled
recognition and astronomical wealth for Radcliffe. He is said to be earning $20 million to
$25 million for each of the
last two films and may be
worth more than either
Prince William or Prince
Harry (countrymen who
never had to earn their status by slaying basilisks or destroying Horcruxes).
5. When it comes to his career
– which will veer into uncharted territory when
the eighth and final “Harry Potter” film is released in July – Radcliffe is deeply, preternaturally serious. Explaining why he chose to bid
farewell to his beloved boy-wizard character
with a 50-year-old all-American satire of the corporate world, he spoke, with an almost religious sincerity, about his need “to prove that
a child actor can go on to have a career with
longevity.”
6. “If I can actually do it,” Radcliffe said of his
latest stage adventure, “having been in one
of the biggest franchises ever, then that can
end the debate. It is possible. That’s what’s my
mission is.”
gle that “Equus” required him to sing. Word
spread that he was not crooning only to paying audiences and perhaps possessed greater
ambitions.
9. “We knew some of the horses in ‘Equus,”‘
said Craig Zadan, who, with his producing partner, Neil Meron, is among the producers of
“How to Succeed,” “and they revealed to us that
he was running around backstage singing the
score of ‘Sweeney Todd.”‘
10. In a meeting with Zadan and Meron, Radcliffe said he wasn’t sure he was qualified to
carry a Broadway musical. And when he was
approached separately by the director and choreographer Rob Ashford, who said he wanted
to make him a triple threat,
Radcliffe recalled, “I was going: ‘OK, yeah, I’ll do dance
lessons, fine. But you are
swimming against the tide
here, Mr. Ashford.”‘
It was, as Radcliffe realized,
a very strange project for
him to take on. “I think to a
lot of people it’s a slightly confusing choice,”
he said, “but I like that.”
Radcliffe drew
widespread attention
as well as
critical praise.
On stage
7. The revival of “How to Succeed” is not
Radcliffe’s first trip to Broadway. He made his
debut in a 2008 revival of Peter Shaffer’s psychological drama “Equus,” which transferred
from the Gielgud Theater in London. Playing
the disturbed youth Alan Strang, a role in
which he briefly appeared naked, Radcliffe
drew widespread attention as well as critical
praise.
8. From that embryonic experience Radcliffe
obtained an appreciation for New York’s theater scene and, more practically, the vocal lessons he was assigned to master a candy-bar jin-
What’s next
11. Momentarily letting down his manic
guard, Radcliffe confessed that he was anxious
about how he would be received in “How to
Succeed.” Asked what specifically made him
nervous, he rattled off a rapid list: “Fear of failure. Fear of mediocrity. Fear of not meeting the
goals that I have set myself. Fear of failing in
my mission.”
12. He was steadfast, however, in his certainty
that he would not be saddened by the release
of the final “Potter” movie, having shed his
tears when the majority of his filming was completed last summer. “For me I’m done, I’m finished,” he said. “People have to remember, we
are not mourning the death of an actual person. There is not an appropriate grieving period which I have to observe.”
13. Radcliffe said any number of films, ranging
from a comedy to a remake of “All Quiet on the
Western Front,” could come next. What was certain was that the young man who played the
Boy Who Lived was ready to do some living of
his own. “When I’m 30-something and got kids
or whatever, I probably will want to take it a bit
slower,” he said. “But this is the part of my life
where I have to be as busy as I can.” ●
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3. fair juste / to leverage utiliser (force de levier,
influence), user du poids de, profiter de / stage
scène, théâtre / revival renaissance, ici reprise.
4. to gross rapporter (brut) / to yield produire,
engendrer / unparalleled (US)= unparallelled
(GB) sans précédent, inégalé / recognition reconnaissance, notoriété / wealth richesse / to be
worth valoir / countryman compatriote / to
slay, slew, slain tuer / basilisk basilic (reptile
auquel les Anciens attribuaient le pouvoir de
tuer par son seul regard) / Horcrux dans Harry
Potter, objet hautement maléfique dans lequel
un sorcier dissimule une partie de son âme,
s’assurant ainsi l’immortalité lorsque son corps
vient à être détruit.
5. to veer s’orienter, ici basculer (dans) / uncharted inexploré, inconnu / to release sortir / preternaturally extraordinairement, incroyablement
/ to bid, bade, bidden farewell dire adieu /
wizard sorcier / corporate de l’entreprise.
6. actually réellement, effectivement.
7. widespread large, d’un vaste public/des
médias / critical praise critiques élogieuses.
8. appreciation goût / to assign to soumettre à
/ to master maîtriser / candy bar barre de friandise / word spread la nouvelle se répandit / to
croon chanter (langoureusement).
9. backstage dans les coulisses / score partition / Sweeney Todd nom d’un tueur en série du
folklore anglais dont l’histoire a donné lieu à
des adaptations au théâtre et au cinéma
(notamment Le diabolique barbier, film de Tim
Burton, 2007).
10. to approach contacter / director metteur
en scène / triple threat lit. triple menace, expert
en trois domaines (ici jouer, danser, chanter) /
to swim, swam, swum against the tide nager à
contre-courant / confusing déroutant.
11. to let, let, let down one’s guard baisser la
garde, se laisser aller / manic (psych.) maniaque
/ to rattle off débiter, réciter à toute allure /
failure échec / to meet, met, met a goal
atteindre un objectif.
12. steadfast ferme, inébranlable, constant / to
sadden attrister / release sortie / to shed, shed,
shed tears pleurer / to complete achever / to
mourn pleurer (la mort de) / actual vrai / grieving period période de deuil.
13. to range from... to aller de... à / All Quiet on
the Western Front A l’Ouest, rien de nouveau,
roman d’Erich Maria Remarque (1929) et film de
Lewis Milestone (1930) / The Boy Who Lived
Harry Potter (titre du premier chapitre de Harry
Potter à l’école des sorciers) / to do some living
of his own vivre sa vie / 30-something trentenaire / whatever n’importe quoi (d’autre) /
busy occupé.
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