With regards to JB and the mirror, I get the impression it was a momentary thing, a shock after having been looking at someone else for a while. If he had a real problem with it I doubt if he could have worked with director Peter Hammond, whose obsession with any shiny surface is legendary, as often as he did on the series.
The anecdote itself is from David Stuart Davies's Dancing in the Moonlight and runs as follows:
"Jeremy got very nervous about being himself on screen. We were filming the scene in Scandal in Bohemia where he takes off the groom's make-up sitting in front of the mirror at 221B...he was sitting there removing his make-up, using greasepaint and then suddenly he just dried. This was very unusual because Jeremy was a very professional actor. I said, 'Jeremy, what's the matter?' and he said, 'I looked in the mirror and I suddenly saw Jeremy.' And I said, 'But Jeremy is Sherlock - you are Sherlock - and that's who you see.' Because he was taking off an extreme disguise he was so alarmed to see himself."
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With regards to JB and the mirror, I get the impression it was a momentary thing, a shock after having been looking at someone else for a while. If he had a real problem with it I doubt if he could have worked with director Peter Hammond, whose obsession with any shiny surface is legendary, as often as he did on the series.
The anecdote itself is from David Stuart Davies's Dancing in the Moonlight and runs as follows:
"Jeremy got very nervous about being himself on screen. We were filming the scene in Scandal in Bohemia where he takes off the groom's make-up sitting in front of the mirror at 221B...he was sitting there removing his make-up, using greasepaint and then suddenly he just dried. This was very unusual because Jeremy was a very professional actor. I said, 'Jeremy, what's the matter?' and he said, 'I looked in the mirror and I suddenly saw Jeremy.' And I said, 'But Jeremy is Sherlock - you are Sherlock - and that's who you see.' Because he was taking off an extreme disguise he was so alarmed to see himself."