Shadowing-Übung: What Happened To Simon Baker After The Mentalist? - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video
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This is Simon Baker in an interview from 2008, trying to convince people to give The Mentalist a chance.
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He has no idea just how big it would get, or how beloved his character, Patrick Jane, would become.
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He has no idea this is the role he'll always be remembered for.
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Seven seasons later, in 2015, the show ends, and instead of his career taking off the way everyone expected, he just seemed to disappear.
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So what happened to Simon Baker after The Mentalist, and why haven't we seen more of him since?
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To answer that, you have to go back all the way to the beginning.
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Simon Baker was born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1969, though he barely spent any time there.
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His family moved to Papua New Guinea, and then his parents split up.
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His mother remarried a butcher named Tom Denny, and the family eventually settled in Lenox Head, a small coastal town on Australia's east coast.
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He said he didn't grow up with money, but he grew up with a lot of space, right next to the ocean, which is where his obsession with surfing comes from.
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Before acting was on the table, he worked a few jobs around Australia, mixing cement as a laborer, washing dishes, working in pubs.
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He said that bouncing between all those jobs ended up being useful later, since it taught him how to read and slip into all kinds of different people.
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No, I used to work in pubs in Australia.
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You did?
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Yeah, that was kind of my acting school, really.
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Some of the shenanigans that you see.
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Then a friend talked him into auditioning for a role, and that's how his acting career actually started.
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He landed a part on the soap opera E Street in the early 90s, followed by Home and Away, and in 1993 he won a Logi Award,
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Australia's biggest television honor for most popular new talent.
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That was enough to get him noticed
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and not long after he made the move to the United States to try his luck in Hollywood.
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His breakthrough came with a small role in LA Confidential in 1997.
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Just a few minutes of screen time was enough to show his talent and put him on the radar.
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Over the next decade he built a solid name for himself.
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He wasn't a massive star yet but he was a working actor who kept landing good roles.
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He played a key part in Ride with the Devil, took the lead in The Ring 2
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and played the hero in Land of the Dead then in
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2006 he landed one of his most recognizable roles playing christian
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thompson in the devil wears prada he'd also proven he could
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lead a show from 2001 to 2004 he starred in the
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guardian playing a corporate lawyer sentenced to over a thousand hours
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of community service after a drug conviction the performance was strong enough to earn him his first golden globe nomination
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by 2008 simon baker had landed the role of his life
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patrick jane in the mentalist a former fake psychic who now solves crimes by reading people.
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What made Jane so easy to like was how Simon chose to play him.
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He could have gone dark with the character, he could have played up the grief and the manipulation, but he didn't.
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He kept it light.
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You could tell Jane was actually enjoying himself, which made it easy for everyone else to enjoy him too.
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He was always a step ahead of everyone else, but it never felt mean, mostly because of that smile he always had on.
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He'd lie straight to someone's face, playing them completely, and he'd just smile through it like was the most fun he'd had all day.
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It softened every trick he pulled, so the viewers never stopped being on his side.
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People genuinely liked spending time with this character.
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The recognition followed fast.
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In 2009, just one season in, Baker picked up an Emmy nomination.
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Simon Baker, The Mentalist.
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The following year, he was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Drama.
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He also won multiple People's Choice Awards for Favorite TV Drama Actor over the show's run, which says a lot about how audiences felt about him.
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And in February 2013, right in the middle of the show's run, he was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Walking down here and seeing all these names, and I never imagined that my name would be one of those names.
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I just, it didn't even enter my mind.
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After The Mentalist ended, everyone expected Simon Baker's career to keep climbing, but that's not what happened.
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Being the lead of a series running 20 -plus episodes a year isn't easy, and Patrick Jane was in almost every scene, which led to Simon working 12, sometimes 14 hours a day,
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five days a week, for the better part of a decade.
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Somewhere in all of that, he started noticing what it was costing him at home.
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It's been an exciting and an interesting period of time, but ultimately our family's become really close because of it,
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because we've kind of been fixed address for a little while.
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He was splitting his time between Los Angeles and Australia while the show filmed, watching his kids grow up mostly through visits and phone calls instead of actually being there.
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So when the show ended, he didn't chase the next big role.
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He said he was looking forward to spending more time at home
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and that dedicating himself to his family mattered more than anything else.
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He'd already worked hard enough as a younger actor to provide for his family
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and he just wasn't as hungry for work anymore.
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Back in Australia, Simon felt the need to help the film industry that first believed in him.
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He directed a film called Breath, an adaptation of a novel about two teenage surfers and it did well enough to win him the Best Director Award.
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From there, he kept showing up in smaller and more personal films, the kind of projects that never made headlines in the U .S., but let him work as an actor,
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producer, and director without the pressure of being the face of a hit show.
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I finished The Mentalist, I went back to Australia, I did a couple of, did a few jobs in Australia to sort of support my industry there.
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And then this came up and I thought, you know what, it's been a while.
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And now, over a decade after The Mentalist, Simon's returning to a major Hollywood role in a new series.
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It's starting to look like the comeback everyone expected years ago might finally be happening.
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That's what makes Simon Baker so special.
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He had one of the biggest shows on television, and instead of chasing the next big thing, he walked away from it.
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For his kids.
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For time, he knew he couldn't get back.
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That's not the move people expect from someone at the height of their career.
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Fame doesn't usually get put on hold, but his did, and over a decade later, it's hard not to see that choice as the right one.
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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion
Dieses Video enthält 76 Sätze und 1195 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 5:37. Der Sprecher spricht schnell, etwa 213 Wörter pro Minute – rechne mit verbundenen und verkürzten Lauten. 84 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen; den Rest solltest du dir vor dem Üben ansehen.
Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video
15 lernenswerte Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| baker Substantiv | /ˈbeɪ.kɚ/ | Bäcker, Bäckerin |
| chase Verb | /t͡ʃeɪs/ | jagen, verfolgen |
| devil Substantiv | /ˈdɛvəl/ | Teufel, Tüüfel |
| globe Substantiv | /ɡloʊb/ | Globus |
| pub Substantiv | /pʌb/ | Kneipe, Bar |
| nomination Substantiv | /ˌnɑmɪˈneɪʃən/ | Nominierung, Aufstellung |
| earn Verb | /ɝn/ | verdienen |
| trick Substantiv | /ˈtɹɪk/ | List, Falle |
| recognition Substantiv | /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/ | Erkennen, Wiedererkennen |
| wash Verb | /wɑʃ/ | waschen, spülen |
| hungry Adjektiv | /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ | hungrig, Hunger haben |
| producer Substantiv | /pɹəˈdjuːsə/ | Hersteller, Herstellerin |
| solve Verb | /sɒlv/ | lösen |
| slip Verb | /ˈslɪp/ | ausrutschen, ausgleiten |
| opera Substantiv | /ˈɒp.ə.ɹə/ | Oper |
Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst
| Wort | Bedeutung |
|---|---|
| come up Verb | erscheinen |
| end up Verb | sich herausstellen, am Ende irgendwo / etwas sein |
| get back Verb | zurückkommen |
| go back Verb | zurückgehen, zurückfahren |
| grow up Verb | aufwachsen, erwachsen werden |
| look forward to Verb | sich freuen auf |
| pick up Verb | aufheben, aufnehmen |
| take off Verb | ausziehen, loslösen |
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
|---|---|
| Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut | be remembered · was born · was nominated |
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | haven't we seen · It's been |
Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest
Der Sprecher verwendet 17 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel he'd, didn't, wasn't. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.
- Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: nomination /ˌnɑmɪˈneɪʃən/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, wash /wɑʃ/, dish /dɪʃ/, conviction /kənˈvɪkʃən/
- Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: nomination /ˌnɑmɪˈneɪʃən/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, adaptation /ˌæd.æpˈteɪ.ʃən/, manipulation /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/
So übst du mit diesem Video
- Höre dir das ganze Video einmal an, ohne zu sprechen, und notiere die Wörter, die du nicht kennst.
- Beginne mit 0,75-facher Geschwindigkeit, sprich Satz für Satz nach und wechsle zur normalen Geschwindigkeit, sobald es leichtfällt.
- Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie baker, chase, devil.
Was ist die Shadowing-Technik?
Shadowing ist eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Sprachlerntechnik, die ursprünglich für die professionelle Dolmetscherausbildung entwickelt und durch den Polyglotten Dr. Alexander Arguelles populär gemacht wurde. Die Methode ist einfach aber wirkungsvoll: Du hörst englisches Audio von Muttersprachlern und wiederholst es sofort laut — wie ein Schatten, der dem Sprecher mit nur 1–2 Sekunden Verzögerung folgt. Anders als passives Hören oder Grammatikübungen zwingt Shadowing dein Gehirn und deine Mundmuskulatur, gleichzeitig echte Sprachmuster zu verarbeiten und zu reproduzieren. Studien zeigen, dass es Aussprachegenauigkeit, Intonation, Rhythmus, verbundene Sprache, Hörverständnis und Sprechflüssigkeit signifikant verbessert — was es zu einer der effektivsten Methoden für die IELTS Speaking-Vorbereitung und reale englische Kommunikation macht.