There’s an interview with Benedict Cumberbatch over on the Out website that is a must-read for fans, although it does show him in quite an impatient light.
Highlights include an impassioned rant about Alan Turing—whose life he inhabits for his current movie The Imitation Game—a few thoughts about the problem of being, y’know, BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH in public, including an illustrative (but polite) refusal to have his picture taken while the interview took place—a request that clearly happens all the time—and this worried dissection of the hysterical crush surrounding his appearance at San Diego Comic Con:
“People were literally dragged off the streets [crying], ‘I just wanted an autograph.’ It’s horrible. And then I get into the back of an SUV, going, ‘Sorry,’ and this one girl goes, ‘Yeah, whatever,’ with tears in her eyes. It’s not…me.
“I can’t control an ex-military security man who’s just had a whole day of it, and just thinks he’ll lose his job if he doesn’t punch some poor teenage girl in the face to give me an inch more room to breathe.”
And then there are the fans whose appreciation of Sherlock blurs the line between fact, fiction and other, more animal emotions.
“People keep coming up to me and saying, ‘Oh, he’s so sexy, do you think [Sherlock would be] interested in me?’
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There’s an interview with Benedict Cumberbatch over on the Out website that is a must-read for fans, although it does show him in quite an impatient light.
Highlights include an impassioned rant about Alan Turing—whose life he inhabits for his current movie The Imitation Game—a few thoughts about the problem of being, y’know, BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH in public, including an illustrative (but polite) refusal to have his picture taken while the interview took place—a request that clearly happens all the time—and this worried dissection of the hysterical crush surrounding his appearance at San Diego Comic Con:
“People were literally dragged off the streets [crying], ‘I just wanted an autograph.’ It’s horrible. And then I get into the back of an SUV, going, ‘Sorry,’ and this one girl goes, ‘Yeah, whatever,’ with tears in her eyes. It’s not…me.
“I can’t control an ex-military security man who’s just had a whole day of it, and just thinks he’ll lose his job if he doesn’t punch some poor teenage girl in the face to give me an inch more room to breathe.”
And then there are the fans whose appreciation of Sherlock blurs the line between fact, fiction and other, more animal emotions.
“People keep coming up to me and saying, ‘Oh, he’s so sexy, do you think [Sherlock would be] interested in me?’
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