Everyone seemed to enjoy those older Benedict Cumberbatch Twitter photos the other day, so here are some more for you, plus some older magazine pics. Don’t you love him? Don’t you love that this is The Gilded Age of Cumberbatch? Don’t you love that 2013 is The Year of The Batch? To celebrate The Cumberbatch Happening, The Sun has a lengthy interview with Cumby which I have significant doubts about. Is this real? Or is this The Sun pulling together old quotes and wrapping it up in a bow like it’s new? I don’t know. Some of these quotes are new to me, so enjoy:
Cumby is not a Trekkie: “Not a huge deal… I watched it and I knew of it and I’ve seen pretty much every generation of it and I’ve seen some of the films, but I have never been an obsessed fan. When I was growing up, I saw Buck Rogers as well as Star Trek on telly, and then film wise I guess it was Star Wars, really. I’ve never had that longing to be in the club, even a football club actually. I guess it’s something to do with being an only child. I was very gregarious but, I think, I never obsessed with anything, I just sort of bought the T-shirt.”
An Englishman in Hollywood: “I am very aware of the English transition of an actor being from a different culture coming over and they are being like, ‘God, this guy does theatre and c***. We’d better give him the bad guy role and a cape and just make him be really horrible’.”
But he’s still playing a villain with an English accent: “It was the pitch that JJ Abrams gave me, a couple of scenes to audition with and he fleshed out the whole world of the rest of the script, and there’s a purpose and intention to his otherwise violent and pretty distressing actions that made it really intriguing. And I thought, ‘Well, OK, there’s a purpose to this man’. The costumes look great. Some of them were very cumbersome and heavy, but some were very snug. You can almost see what religion I am.”
He’s very popular… in Japan: “I was mobbed at the airport in Japan, which was not my usual sort of thing. It’s not what I expect when I arrive at the airport. It was amazing. Lots of fans turned out when we were recording in Tokyo. Yeah, none of that is normal, is it? It’s fantastic. I think it was because there were a few people who were interested to talk to me about everything to do with my life at the moment, and to let me know that I’m very big on the internet, which I have sort of got wind of.”
His actor parents discouraged him from becoming an actor: “They just saw the pitfalls of it every day. You don’t know where your next job is coming from and it’s unstable, into which they were having a child — me — and you want stability for your children. You want something better. And everything that was bad about it for them, they wanted me to be free of for me. But I just kept on doing it, kept on doing it, at school and university. Eventually my dad said, when I played Salieri in Amadeus, ‘You are better than I was or ever will be. You will have a really good time doing this for a living.’ And I cried. And from that moment I thought, ‘OK, if I’ve got his blessing, I’m going to do it’.”
Sherlock’s ambiguity: “Sherlock is an anti-hero. He’s a lot of complicated things, morally ambiguous. He’s sided with the angels but I don’t think he’s one of them.”
OK, some of those quotes were definitely old… either that, or Cumby just repeats the same jokes in interviews (which isn’t that crazy). Like, I’ve heard that “you can see what religion I am” joke before. I loved it several weeks ago. But hearing Cumby talk about getting mobbed in Tokyo and repeating a compliment his father gave him? Meh. That sort of puffed-up part of Benedict’s personality doesn’t get me going. Don’t get me wrong, I love him and his bitchiness. But he has a narcissistic streak, doesn’t he? Maybe it comes from being an only child – and I’m saying that as an only child too. We do tend to make it ALL ABOUT US. OMG, Cumby and I would be perfect together.
Photos courtesy of Cumby’s fansite.
Love him.
That is all.
Two Cumby posts and one Elba, all in one week?! CB is the best!
ETA: the cardigan pic is featured in a twitter account called hot celebrities in cardigans, which might be the reason the Internet was invented.
*clicks follow*
It’s a nifty twitter account but it has nothing on @TheAverageShark
Seriously – this is why I am never going to finish my work this week.
So, Allons-y. Glad you’re here. I’ve finally caught up to season and don’t know if I can face seeing the death of Ponds. Is it too sad to watch?
Make sure no-one is going to see you for a few hours because otherwise you’ll have to explain why you’re crying over a tv show.
It’s always sad to watch the Doctor lose his companions… Having said that, it’s a great episode.
I adore Rory and it was only until this series/season that I could finally start liking Amy (i know, it’s unfashionable to dislike Amy but whatevs).
Ok. Good to know. I was planning on watching it during a plane ride next week, but won’t do that now.
I liked Amy, actually more than Rose, whose “gleeful joy” thing got a bit old after a while (although it was needed to counter the slightly more maudlin aspects of Tenant’s doctor). I hope Moffat finds a new formula for the companion though. He’s overused the nearly dying/something cosmically significant in ways that that nobody can quite understand strategy a little much, too.
Umm well then you should probably brace yourself for the first few episodes with the new companion, the ‘cosmically significant’ aspect is strong from the start. This could change as there have only been 2 episodes so far but don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Speaking of Twitter, Hiddles is at it again, posting inspirational messages from Alain du Botton. Which gives me an excellent excuse to post this:
http://alaindebottom.tumblr.com/
Miss Jupitero, I hope you will enjoy…
I love Tom Hiddleston. He’s a good actor and seems so lovely. I appreciated reading his UNICEF blog, but his fans go crazy with his twitter account. He panders a bit too much to them.
And, oh this tumblr is brilliant! You should also look into http://hipsterttoi.tumblr.com/. It’s pretty much Thick of It Quotes with unrelated pretty pictures. (not for those sensitive with bad words)
Is The Thick of it any good? I can’t get it on Netflix, so have to decide whether it’s worth digging around for. I hear very complimentary things about it.
I love the Thick of It. It’s not for everyone but if you’re into political satire I recommend it. Peter Capaldi’s Malcolm Tucker is a wonderful and diabolical whirlwind of abuse. Incidentally, Batch’s ex Olivia Poulet is in it and she is hilarious.
Both accounts have been followed, thank you ladies. I’m now even less likely to do any work today (hilarious as I’m actually *at* work).
I didn’t even get a whiff of bitchyness in those quotes, I actually found the one about his Dad quite sweet. This being The Sun however, I would be very surprised if an interview ever actually occurred.
I think it’s is just a bunch of older quotes thrown together too. I’m not complaining. Batch posts on CB is like my mecca.
I know – all the more so for the fact that it brings out all of my favorite people!
I know! I’m loving the fact that Celeb$#chy loves Cumberbatch and Elba just as much as I do.
That last bit about the angels is straight from the Sherlock script just before he jumps. Pretty sad and kind of amusing if this interview pulled quotes from character dialogue and not just old interviews.
… and if he ever does a movie with a child costar, I might die. He looks a different person when there are children about.
The quote about his father’s praise is also recycled from a previous interview.
Who is that pretty little girl with him in the third photo? Is she a fan?
Is he a only child? I though he has a sister (being his niece is his assistant)
He has a half-sister from his mother’s first marriage, but she is so much older than him that she was already an adult when he was born. She is in her middle 50’s right now. They were never growing up together, probably didn’t even live in the same house, so that may feel like he was an only child. My sister is only 10 years older and I often feel like that.
The Sun is notorious for, this quotes from other places and taken out of context. They get away with it because they keep the story pretty neutral. Real journalism continues to die a slow painful death.
That pic of him with the little girl is precious!
I don’t get the obsession, but I watched “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” last night and thought of you ladies. ha. The readers of Celebitchy are on my mind…I think I need to get out more!
That movie was a smorgasbord heap of AMAZING BRITISH ACTING CHOPS!!!!
Oldman, Firth, Hurt, Hinds, Strong, Hardy & Cumby! How does such a small place produce so much talent??
Only Cumby could make that Mr. Rogers sweater look hot :).
And he may sound a bit conceited here, but he managed to not curse out or trash anyone else’s work in this interview. So, progress!
Ha. Although now it’s a little more boring to read. I think people should start getting him drunk before they interview him.
And as someone who works almost exclusively in a library, that tie/cardigan combo is totally hot. He looks like the young English teacher that all the fourteen year olds fancy.
Cumby is not on my list of hot guys I would like to shag but he can give you eargasms with that voice.
This is where I am with him as well. What does that make it, the Hit List and the Lay Back and Listen List? Doesn’t roll off the tongue smoothly, does it? Maybe if Jaguar Holmes said it…
It falls under the Listen List. He would be on the other end of the phone while I pleasure myself as he’s talking dirty to me. I know TMI but that’s where he stands with me. I hope Eve doesn’t see this and find out that I’m using her man for phone sex. LOL
Oh Cumby talk dirty to me…….
V4 – she shouldn’t get upset if you don’t touch him. I think that is her only rule.
BUT, I could picture The Jag starting in his dirty phone call and then something goes wrong – someone texts him mid-sentence, he is reading a Sherlock script while talking and he doesn’t like a line, his dryer pings that his laundry is done – and he loses sight of the task at hand (if you will allow me the pun) and he gets miffed. So he starts being bitchy, which only makes the whole call hotter, and then when you start groaning or whatever, he snaps back “oh what are you on about!” Which, of course, is all you need.
You know, The Jag works on so many levels, really.
Ladies, please. I really have to get some work done today. Now, whenever I look at that cardigan photo, I just imagine Jaguar Holmes telling me off. Which is a VERY good thing.
Sorry TFan – I behaved myself for an entire week – it almost killed me.
@T FAN & J. I’m LOL for real.
But T Fan I bet he would be getting you off while he’s telling you off. Plus Sex don’t get any safer than that.
Oh, Mr. Bendydick Cum-On-My-Back how I love thee……as an actor and person. I still can’t bring myself to want to tap that though. Great actor, but his face? Eh.
Sigh…
This is mostly old quotes, like they cobbled together an ‘interview’… but still! Cumberbatch! the hotness on my desktop is lovely…
Ugly lizard creature.
I will have him one day. Mark my words. He will be mine. You will be mine, Cumberbatch!
The Sun… what a piece of trash. Those quotes are old. And I think it is hard to not sound self-centered in interviews or profile pieces. I mean, the “journalists” literally want you to talk about yourself. Eh. Whatever.
Ugh, Cumby & Cardigans! Hot. Especially with the Trek Super Bowl trailer still reverberating in my ear. This man has tremendous sex appeal.
Also, it seems he already signed the dotted line for The Imitation Game and is ready for selling to distributors.