Have you noticed that Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hollywood Reporter interview has been everywhere this week? He’s a thing now. No one can even say “Who IS this dude?” anymore. You might not like him, but damn it, you know his name and his beautiful lizard-alien face. Anyway, there’s a new trailer for August: Osage County and wouldn’t you know? There’s more Cumberbatch in it. Of course, there’s also way more Meryl Streep too. Here’s the newest trailer:

I haven’t read the play or seen it performed, but (SPOILER) I think he’s in love with Julianne Nicholson’s character? I’m only getting that from the trailer, so is it really a spoiler if they’re basically putting it in there? Anyway, Vulture had this AMAZING breakdown of The Cumberbatch Autumn:

The Fifth Estate

Character: Julian Assange, the prickly spiller of government secrets who founded WikiLeaks
Accent: An Australian accent, deemed “grating” by the real-life Assange
Hairstyle: A long, lustrous white mane
Monstrous family member: His mother’s ex-boyfriend, who supposedly plied Assange with drugs at a young age and abused him
Romantic attachments: None are portrayed in the film, though a closing-credits crawl notifies us that Assange was accused of sexual misconduct by two Swedish women in 2010
Special skill: At an Iceland nightclub, Cumberbatch’s Assange takes to the dance floor and busts out moves that resemble a demented, flailing octopus.

12 Years a Slave

Character: William Ford, a genteel Southerner who is the first to purchase our protagonist, kidnapped slave Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), at auction
Accent: A nineteenth-century Louisiana drawl
Hairstyle: Brown and wavy, with a forelock often coming loose just so
Monstrous family member: His preening wife, who looks askance at a grieving slave who’s just been separated from her son and daughter, purses her lips, and counsels her: “Your children will soon be forgotten.”
Romantic attachments: Ford is at least faithful to his wife, unlike Northup’s next owner, the vile Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender), who regularly rapes prized slave Patsey (Lupita Nyong’o).
Special skill: Cumberbatch’s glorious oratorical skills are in full bloom during the scenes where Ford, a Baptist preacher, reads scripture at loud and at length.

August: Osage County

Character: Little Charles, the most derided member of a family that includes his aunt, vicious matriarch Violet (Meryl Streep), as well as cousins Barbara (Julia Roberts), Karen (Juliette Lewis), and Ivy (Julianne Nicholson)
Accent: Midwestern and slightly dim
Hairstyle: Parted to one side and combed assiduously
Monstrous family member: It would be hard to select just one, but even though the hot-tempered Violet is the family’s lead gorgon, Little Charles endures most of his insults from his mother Mattie Fae (Margo Martindale), who constantly calls him stupid and aimless.
Romantic attachments: To reveal the object of his affection could be considered a spoiler, but let’s just say that Little Charles keeps it in the family.
Special skill: In the movie’s sweetest, swooniest scene, Little Charles plays and sings a song he wrote for his secret girlfriend, and even though the character is presented as unemployed and not too bright, women in the audience had to be stopped from hurling themselves into the movie screen to be with the tender Cumberbatch.

[From Vulture]

“Little Charles plays and sings a song he wrote for his secret girlfriend… women in the audience had to be stopped from hurling themselves into the movie screen to be with the tender Cumberbatch.” TENDER CUMBERBATCH. Oh, God. Now I really, really need to see Osage. And he sings too?! Mother of Batch, I need that in my life. And he dances (as Assange) like a “a demented, flailing octopus”? I don’t believe it. But YES on his preacher skills. Cumby could read me the telephone book and I would be turned on.

Photos courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter.