吉姆·帕森斯——“謝耳朵”的爆炸人生

吉姆·帕森斯因出演大熱美劇《生活大爆炸》（The Big Bang Theory）而大紅大紫。他成功塑造了劇中的經典角色謝爾頓·庫珀（Sheldon Cooper）——一個集超級怪咖、自戀狂外加強迫癥于一身的天才科學家；一個智商超高，然而情商卻為零的頂級宅男。如果你還沒看過這個極品宅男科學家的故事，那你可就真的out了！謝爾頓在劇中搞怪、無厘頭、令人哭笑不得的行為為他贏得了大批觀眾的喜愛，中國觀眾們甚至親切地稱他為“謝耳朵”；而吉姆·帕森斯憑借在劇中自成一派的嫻熟演技，對謝爾頓的完美詮釋更是為他斬獲了艾美獎、金球獎等眾多獎項。真是人如劇名，吉姆·帕森斯的生活隨著《生活大爆炸》一起爆炸了！本期我們就來一探這位“怪咖天才”背后的真實人生。

He’s the 1)geeky star of The Big Bang Theory， one of the most successful comedies on television.

(In TV Series， The Big Bang Theory)

Penny: Whatcha doin?

Sheldon: I’m attempting to view my work as a 2)fleeting 3)peripheral image so as to engage the 4)superior colliculus of my brain.

Obsessive is surely one way to describe Sheldon Cooper...

(In TV Series， The Big Bang Theory)

Sheldon: You know me to be a very smart man. Don’t you think if I were wrong， I’d known it.

...the role that’s made the 38-year-old actor famous. Though Parsons says， in real life， shy was the way to describe him as a child growing up in Houston.

Jim Parsons: My first role ever was in first grade. The Elephant’s Child was the play， and I was the Kolakola Bird.

Interviewer: What is a Kolakola Bird?

Parsons: Hell if I know. For me it was something with wings and yellow tights and a black mask on my head that my mother built. You don’t forget your first experience in 5)pantyhose.

Interviewer: Was there a point that you thought， “I want to be an actor?”

Parsons: Yeah， I had act…I had been in plays though elementary school. I had been in plays through high school， and I had a very 6)torn relationship with it.

(In TV Series， The Big Bang Theory)

Penny: I was wondering if you could maybe teach me a little physics.

Sheldon: A little physics?

It was at one of those casting sessions five years ago that Parsons landed the role of a lifetime—Sheldon， a brilliant， if awkward， physicist.

Parsons: It’s always exciting to me. It’s always a stretch.

Interviewer: Why is it a stretch to play?

Parsons: He’s a genius， which I’m…I’m just not. He’s got…his mind works in these ways that I don’t even have the first way of understanding.

Interviewer: How do you memorize Sheldon’s lines? You look at some of the words that you’re saying， some…

Parsons: They’re terrible!

Interviewer: …speeds out of your mouth…Parsons: They’re terrible!

Interviewer: …It’s amazing!

Parsons: One of these days they’re going to break me， I’m positive， but in the meantime， I’m a big notecard 7)fiend.

(In TV Series， The Big Bang Theory)

Leonard’s Mom: I’ve been meaning to thank you for your notes on my paper disproving 8)quantum brain dynamic theory.

Sheldon: My pleasure! For a non-physicist you have a remarkable grasp of how electric 9)dipoles in the brain’s water 10)molecules could not possibly form of those 11)condensate.

Parsons: Yeah， I have the note…I have a little 12)cue on the first side， and on the next one will be my entire line all written out， and I will pace around my house， and I just…that’s what I do for hours on end. And I’m telling you， it is…it’s like memorizing the symbols on the 13)periodic table.

Interviewer: You have won a Golden Globe， you’ve won an Emmy for your 14)portrayal of Sheldon， you are so wellknown for this character.

Parsons: Yeah.

Interviewer: Is there a danger in that?

Parsons: I’m sure there is. I’m sure there is. And here’s why I don’t worry. I will find a way to work whether it’s back in my mother’s back yard making my sister put on a show with me—although she probably wouldn’t be willing now; she has two kids—anyway， I’m going to keep doing it. In what form I’ll be had in…in whatever project they’ll allow me to work， that’s where I’ll end up being.

Interviewer: Even if it’s your mother’s back yard.

Parsons: That sounds sad， so maybe not that far， but something’ll happen.

For Jim Parsons， it’s safe to say something probably will.

他是《生活大爆炸》中那個令人討厭的角色，也是電視上最成功的喜劇演員之一。

（電視劇《生活大爆炸》中）

佩妮：你干什么呢？

謝爾頓：我在嘗試以瞬時環形影像來審視我的工作，以此來激活我的上丘腦。

自戀——絕對適合用來描述謝爾頓·庫珀。

（電視劇《生活大爆炸》中）

謝爾頓：你知道我是個非常聰明的人。如果我錯了，難道我會不知道嗎？

這個角色讓這位38歲的演員一炮而紅。然而，帕森斯說，在真實生活中，在休斯頓長大的他，小時候的一大特點就是害羞。

吉姆·帕森斯：我的第一個角色是我在一年級的時候獲得的，那出戲叫《大象的孩子》，而我在里面演的是“可樂可樂鳥”。

采訪者：可樂可樂鳥是什么？

帕森斯：天知道是什么。對我來說，那就是一雙翅膀、黃色緊身衣，還有一個我媽媽做的扣在我頭上的黑色面具。……