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Be Here Now · 2015 — 第 2 / 27 章 · 4'22" · B2

Andy Wins the Role of Spartacus, Explained：that's how we roll

The footage follows Andy from audition to fame as the lead of Spartacus. It is a success story, but the interviews keep returning to effort: boot camp, gruelling training, and the fear of finally getting what you wanted. "We made it happen, and that's how we roll," his partner says.

あらすじ

This chapter covers Andy's rise: years of trying to make it as an actor, the audition for the lead in Spartacus, and the whirlwind that followed. It includes the gladiator boot camp, the brutal training to look the part, and interviews about what the role meant to him. It ends with the success the show brought.

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that's how we rollturn upkeep pace withlook the part

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このシーンの表現

that's how we roll

this is how we do things

Vashti recalls how the pair got Andy into Spartacus, proud and playful about doing it together.

The whole team stayed up all night, because that's how we roll.

このシーンの他の表現

  • turn up

    show up

  • keep pace with

    stay level with

  • look the part

    look right for the role

  • make a stand

    stand up and fight for it

  • identify with

    relate to it

このシーンのメモ一覧

54 行のセリフに 30 件のメモ

表現 · B1make it as something

succeed as something

I've spent the last eight years trying to make it as an actor,
発音I've spent

I've is reduced to /aɪv/ and runs straight into spent.

I've spent the last eight years trying to make it as an actor,
表現 · B1go out for something

try out for

At one point in that journey, Andy had gone out for Spartacus and he was in LA.
文法 · B1had gone out

past perfect: The past perfect shows the tryout had already happened before the moment being described.

At one point in that journey, Andy had gone out for Spartacus and he was in LA.
表現 · A2whatever happens

no matter what

Whatever happens to me, my men, their families, happen because we choose it.
スラング · A2boobs

breasts — Casual body talk among friends; too informal for polite company.

And I remember that day I wore a little note in both cups of my bra, 'cause I had boobs then, saying, "Andy is Spartacus.
スラング · A2cups of my bra

bra cups — Intimate talk; not for strangers or formal settings.

And I remember that day I wore a little note in both cups of my bra, 'cause I had boobs then, saying, "Andy is Spartacus.
表現 · B1make something happen

make it come true

We made it happen, and that's how we roll.
スラング · B1how we roll

how we operate — Casual and a bit swaggering; fine among friends.

We made it happen, and that's how we roll.
表現 · B1something is killing me

causing me pain

I started yesterday and my buttocks are killing me.
スラング · B1killing me

hurting badly — An everyday exaggeration; keep it out of formal writing.

I started yesterday and my buttocks are killing me.
表現 · A2turn up somewhere

show up

The speaker describes showing up at the set one day, casual and a little nervous.

I turn up one day going,
文法 · B2what I've wanted

noun clause: The what-clause names the very thing he has wanted, acting as the subject's complement.

" This is actually bit terrifying now because this is what I've wanted for so long and it's here and I have to deliver."
表現 · B1a six pack

visible abs

Andy literally arrived back from LA and went straight off to start shooting in New Zealand and suddenly becoming Spartacus and cutting a six pack and glutes and pecks of steel.
スラング · B1six pack

defined abs — Gym slang; understood everywhere but informal.

Andy literally arrived back from LA and went straight off to start shooting in New Zealand and suddenly becoming Spartacus and cutting a six pack and glutes and pecks of steel.
発音would've been

Would've contracts to /wʊdəv/, with been reduced almost to a hum.

I mean, I was exhausted, but I'm pretty sure anyone would've been.
表現 · B1go through something

experience

It's one of the most extreme things I've ever gone through.
表現 · B2let alone something

not to mention

You have to train your arse off just to look the part, let alone doing your own fight choreography and the long film days.
スラング · B2arse off

very hard — Rough British slang; avoid it at work or in writing.

You have to train your arse off just to look the part, let alone doing your own fight choreography and the long film days.
表現 · B1be forced to do something

made to do

The story is about an everyman who finds himself captured by the supposedly civilized Romans, and is forced to fight for his own survival.
文法 · C1who finds himself captured

relative clause: The clause describes the everyman and uses find oneself plus a participle for a sudden situation.

The story is about an everyman who finds himself captured by the supposedly civilized Romans, and is forced to fight for his own survival.
表現 · B1as something continues

as it goes on

And I think as the show continues,
文法 · C1of which they had no control

preposition plus which: The preposition plus which clause describes the circumstances they could not control.

his passion to help liberate all the people trapped by circumstances of which they had no control becomes something that he can really put his energy into.
表現 · A2how much longer

how long more

How much longer?
表現 · B2sit back and do nothing

do nothing

He just can't sit back and take the abuse.
文法 · B2However many times

concessive clause: However many times means no matter how many times, setting up the concession.

However many times they knock him down,
発音knock him down

The h in him often drops, so knock him blurs into knock-im.

However many times they knock him down,
発音get up

In American speech the t in get up flaps, sounding like ged-up.

he will get up and fight and fight and never, never, ever stop.
表現 · B2identify with someone

relate to it

After describing Spartacus's defiance, Andy admits some part of him connects with it.

And there's certainly parts of me that I can identify with that.
表現 · B2have something at one's feet

within one's grasp

And to have a show so well-received and successful, I sort of had everything at my feet.

「Andy Wins the Role of Spartacus」を読み解く

What's really going on

Under the triumphant surface, the chapter is about how much work winning costs. The audition and the boot camp come first: Andy arrives and jokes that his body is already wrecked, and the interviews stress the physical price — "It's one of the most extreme things I've ever gone through." Even after he is cast, the show keeps demanding more: training "just to look the part," fight choreography, long days. The materials around him are careful not to make it only about discipline, though. They describe Spartacus as an everyman who fights for people trapped by circumstances, and Andy says parts of himself connect with that. What emerges is a portrait of ambition that is both personal and physical — he wanted the role, and he rebuilt himself to deserve it.

Theme

AmbitionAndy spends years chasing the role, then rebuilds his body and pushes through brutal training to hold it.
DreamsThe chapter frames the lead in Spartacus as a dream role finally within reach, and shows what reaching it costs.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A small aside between partners can carry the pride of a whole shared project.
  • The training talk is a reality check under the show's glamour.
  • Spartacus's refusal to stay down is the show's emotional engine.
  • Success felt like everything at his feet, but only briefly.

発音のポイント

  • I've spent — I've is reduced to /aɪv/ and runs straight into spent.
  • would've been — Would've contracts to /wʊdəv/, with been reduced almost to a hum.
  • knock him down — The h in him often drops, so knock him blurs into knock-im.
  • get up — In American speech the t in get up flaps, sounding like ged-up.
We made it happen, and that's how we roll.

A statement of shared will. It credits the couple with manufacturing the opportunity rather than waiting for it, and the slang gives it a confident, swaggering edge.

he will get up and fight and fight and never, never, ever stop.

A description of the character, and by extension of the actor. The piled-up repetition matches the show's speeches, but the meaning is simply endurance.

You have to train your arse off just to look the part, let alone doing your own fight choreography and the long film days.

The physical bill for a lead role in this show. First comes looking right, then stunts, then the schedule — a list that grows heavier with every clause.

It's one of the most extreme things I've ever gone through.

Andy's own summary of the training and shoot. It is not a complaint so much as a measure of what the role demanded.

I think Spartacus is a unique show.

A simple verdict on the series, delivered as the footage shows its blend of action and drama. It doubles as a claim about the role that defines him.

このシーンについての質問

Why did Andy's partner write 'Andy is Spartacus' on notes?

As a private show of confidence. She kept the notes in her bra and emailed him calling him Spartacus before he had the part, treating the role as something the two of them had already decided he would get.

What is the gladiator boot camp?

It's the punishing training the show put the actors through before filming. Andy jokes that he had only just started and his body already ached; the interviews call it one of the most extreme things he had done.

Why does Spartacus keep getting up to fight?

Andy describes him as an everyman captured by the Romans and forced to fight for survival. Rather than accept the abuse, he makes a stand for everyone, getting up again and again as long as blood is still pumping through his veins.

What did the show's success bring Andy?

He says Spartacus was well received and successful, and that he had everything at his feet. It was the dream role that finally delivered the career he had spent eight years chasing.

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