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Gold started casting while still at Cambridge University, where she studied French and Latin.[qh]
戈尔德还在剑桥大学学习法语和拉丁语时就开始了选角。[qh]
A friend in London asked her to be an extra in a Feargal Sharkey video, and then to recruit some twentysomethings in leather jackets for an AC/DC video.[qh]
伦敦的一位朋友请她在费格尔·夏基的录像中担任临时演员，然后为AC/DC的录像招募一些穿着皮夹克的二十多岁的年轻人。[qh]
The friend left the job and Gold kept going, casting music videos and commercials.[qh]
这位朋友离职了，而戈尔德继续坚持，为音乐视频和商业广告选角。[qh]
In 1992, she cast a McDonald's advert directed by Mike Leigh (the one when the kid goes to get a Big Mac and comes back to find his granny playing his Game Boy).[qh]
1992年，她出演了迈克·李执导的一则麦当劳广告（就是那个小孩去买巨无霸汉堡，回来发现他奶奶在玩他的Game Boy游戏机的广告）。[qh]
Both had issues with taking the job.[qh]
两人都对接受这份工作有顾虑。[qh]
Gold had to talk round her Greenpeace activist partner, Frank Hewetson, and Leigh had to get a queasy blessing from Ken Loach (“If you don't take the money off these capitalists, somebody else will”).[qh]
戈尔德不得不说服她绿色和平组织活动家丈夫弗兰克·休伊森，而利则不得不从肯·洛奇那里得到一个令人不安的祝福（“如果你不从这些资本家那里拿钱，别人会拿的”）。[qh]
But a few years later, Leigh gave Gold her break, bringing her in to help him cast Topsy-Turvy, her first major film.[qh]
但几年后，利给了戈尔德一个机会，让她来帮他为《酣歌畅戏》选角，这是她的第一部重要电影。[qh]
“She has an uncanny ability to get it,” he told me.[qh]
“她有一种不可思议的能力，能够理解它，”他告诉我。[qh]
“To differentiate at the most subtle and refined level between one actor and the next.”[qh]
在最微妙和精致的层面上区分一个演员和下一个演员。”[qh]
The covert work of good casting means that its value to a project is often overlooked, the job only conspicuous when done badly.[qh]
出色的选角工作是隐性的，这意味着它对一个项目的价值常常被忽视，只有在做得不好时才会引人注目。[qh]
(Gold's process isn't foolproof: after a creaky Game of Thrones pilot a number of actors - including Jennifer Ehle as Catelyn Stark - had to be recast.)[qh]
（戈尔德的方法并非万无一失：在《权力的游戏》试播集播出后，包括饰演凯特琳·史塔克的詹妮弗·埃勒在内的许多演员不得不重新选角。）[qh]
But for the most part, casting goes unnoticed.[qh]
但在大多数情况下，选角并不会引起注意。[qh]
It is the sole creative department not to be given an award at the Oscars, much to the profession's indignation.[qh]
这是唯一一个没有在奥斯卡颁奖典礼上获奖的创意部门，这让该行业感到非常愤怒。[qh]
(The Casting Directors' Guild have recently launched their own ceremony to fill the gap.)[qh]
选角导演协会最近推出了他们自己的颁奖典礼来填补这个空白。[qh]
Two years ago, Bafta tried to make amends by giving Gold a “Special Award” which sits on a shelf in her office not far from a Darth Vader mask made of black glass that someone mysteriously sent her from Turkey.[qh]
两年前，英国电影和电视艺术学院试图通过授予戈尔德一项“特别奖”来弥补过失，该奖项放在她办公室的架子上，离一个由黑色玻璃制成的达斯·维达面具不远，这个面具是有人神秘地从土耳其寄给她的。[qh]
(“It's traditional to thank your life partner,” Gold said in her Bafta speech, “but my one is always in prison.”[qh]
“按照传统，我应该感谢我的人生伴侣，”戈尔德在她的英国电影和电视艺术学院奖获奖感言中说，“但我的伴侣总是在监狱里。”[qh]
Hewetson, with whom she has two children, was one of the Arctic 30, jailed for three months in Russia in 2013.)[qh]
休伊森是“北极30人”之一，2013年在俄罗斯被监禁三个月，她和休伊森育有两个孩子。[qh]
One producer I spoke to suggested an unspoken sexism might explain the lack of recognition: casting directors are mostly women and this fact, and the more mundane aspects of the job – organising auditions, negotiating actors' contracts – has led to a perception of casting as glorified administration.[qh]
我采访过的一位制片人认为，一种不言而喻的性别歧视或许可以解释这种缺乏认可的现象：选角导演大多是女性，而这一事实，以及这份工作中更为平凡的方面——组织试镜、协商演员合同——导致人们认为选角只是一种美化了的行政管理工作。[qh]
To many film-makers, this is sacrilege.[qh]
对许多电影制作人来说，这是一种亵渎。[qh]
“Directing is 90% casting, right?” said the Game of Thrones showrunners, David Benioff and Dan Weiss, over email.[qh]
“导演工作有90% 在于选角，对吧？”《权力的游戏》的节目制作人戴维·贝尼奥夫和丹·韦斯在电子邮件中表示。[qh]
Gold describes casting as “turning the abstract into something living and breathing”.[qh]
戈尔德将选角描述为“将抽象的东西变成有生命和呼吸的东西”。[qh]
Her material is human flesh.[qh]
她的材料是人类的肉体。[qh]
There is risk involved, and taste, though Gold denies preferring a certain kind of actor and says she simply wants to find the right one for the part.[qh]
这其中存在风险，也关乎品味，尽管戈尔德否认自己偏爱某种类型的演员，并表示她只是想为这个角色找到合适的人选。[qh]
Many of her collaborators told me that Gold has a gift for surprise, the kind of curatorial eye that is able to see things others can't.[qh]
她的许多合作者告诉我，戈尔德有制造惊喜的天赋，她拥有那种策展人般的眼光，能够看到别人看不到的东西。[qh]
For example, John Lithgow playing Winston Churchill in The Crown.[qh]
例如，约翰·利斯高在《王冠》中扮演温斯顿·丘吉尔。[qh]
“All Nina's idea,” Claire Foy told me.[qh]
“这都是尼娜的主意，”克莱尔·福伊告诉我。[qh]
“No one else would have come up with that.”[qh]
“没有人会想到那个。”[qh]
There's no formula to it, no shortcut.[qh]
这里没有公式，没有捷径。[qh]
“The algorithm would probably be not quite as interesting as somebody who's a tiny bit off algorithm,” said Gold.[qh]
“算法可能不会像稍微偏离算法的人那么有趣，”戈尔德说。[qh]
“Can I also confess that I don't actually know what an algorithm is?”[qh]
“我也可以坦白说，我其实并不知道算法是什么吗？”[qh]
