Benedict Cumberbatch's VF portrait at #TIFF14. Enjoy http://t.co/SjBK7dayTg pic.twitter.com/UEgE5Ew7TU
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) September 10, 2014
Because today is Friday, I just kind of wanted to do a Benedict Cumberbatch post. Sorry for all of you who don’t care. I learned this week that I am obsessed not only with Benedict, but with his glasses too. Of course I’ve seen him with various glasses and sunglasses before. But I feel like he was really bringing the glasses p0rn to TIFF. This Vanity Fair portrait is one of my new favorites. So nerd-hot. Like if Buddy Holly banged an otter.
As for how The Imitation Game did at TIFF… most reviews and critical pieces that I’ve seen have been extremely complimentary of the film. Most note that Benedict is the strongest part of a good-to-stellar film. He’s got some pale, English competition though – many were blown away by Eddie Redmayne’s turn as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. Will Oscar voters nominate two British boys under the age of 40 for Best Actor? Will Benedict get the nomination because he has Harvey Weinstein’s Oscar campaign machine behind him? I don’t know.
Would you like to see Martin Freeman make Benedict giggle-snort? The BBC released a short blooper from Sherlock Season 3 and it’s charming. I wish I could figure out the context of what they’re saying to each other. They’re talking about ages, someone’s age and whether Benedict knows a certain person, I think?
Photos courtesy of Vanity Fair, WENN.
I love that Martin tried to keep a straight face for as long as possible.
How do you manage to write at least one article about this guy everyday? Do you get paid by his PR?
The otters have taken over Kaiser with their mind control. I was able to get out before I went over the deep end. Afraid it’s too late for dear Kaiser.
But… but… he’s so charming. Sherlock is amazing. Smart is the new sexy!
I’d rather read mundane stuff about this guy than read any post about LeeAnn Rimes.
I’d much rather read about him than the Kardashian devils.
“Like if Buddy Holly banged an otter.”
Heee hee hee
Girl you kill me!
I think that’s my favorite line.
That line made me giggle/snort. Good one, Kaiser!
Martin is asking Benedict a trivia question from the newspaper about a British actor he assumes Benedict knows. Benedict bluntly corrects him on this point, he has no idea who Martin is talking about and doesn’t know his age…
PS. I love that Vanity Fair portrait. I assume the glasses are a freebie for D&G who did some of his clothes at TIFF. But really, he needs wider frames glasses in general. They don’t really fit. I wear men’s frames usually because they are wider but a lot of designer frames come in different sizes. He needs to size up.
@MediaD
His glasses are not D&G. They are Persol. He has been wearing those Persol frames for months. He also wears Persol sunglasses.
Oh shit*t, have I not been monitoring every photo of Benedict ever published!?! MY BAD. He had some Burberry glases back in the day.
These are as ill-fitting as his sunglasses so I’d believe they are the same brand. He needs to learn a little something from Paul Newman http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TF0TBqwB6-w/SxQRGuvGpTI/AAAAAAAADEg/1cm8vI53OWE/s400/Z+(15).jpg
He needs a trip to a good optician, to either get better fitted glasses, or have the glasses he’s got adjusted so they sit straight on his head.
That said, he looks gorgeous in these pics.
I don’t get the hype about his looks. He is, however, an exceptional actor. That being said, the glasses to up his hotness factor a notch.
What does Martin say that makes Benedict crack up? It sounds like “I assumed you’d probably been ??? by him.”
Is it “christened”?
‘christened’. He’s apparently known for taking the piss out of Benedict (and others) on set and likes to poke at BC’s “posh” image and his family’s acting history.
I think this is how the conversation goes, as posted on you tube:
“Benedict: …saying sweetheart. What the fuck is that all about? I don’t know.
Martin: John Duttine, the actor.
Benedict: On a particular day in November, how old was he?
Martin: No no. How old did he become in March this year. How old?
Benedict: I didn’t even know who John…John Duttine was. I thought you were making shit up.
Martin: Hmm, I assumed you’d probably been christened by him.
Benedict laughs
Director: Action
Benedict still laughing take cut
Martin: I thought you knew every actor over 50…. I thought there was a by-law.
Director: Action!
Benedict laughs take cut
Benedict: I’m so sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.””
Because Benedict’s parents are both actors, Martin is assuming/making fun of the fact that Benedict probably knows every actor in Britain over the age of 50 and this John Duttine could have christened him. Martin loves taking the piss out of Benedict as Miss Mary said.
I love Benedict laughing it is so contagious.
@MAGGIE thanks so much for the caption! I read it then watched the video so I didn’t miss a single word. That was so funny lol
He does look yummy in the Vanity Fair pic.
Awww, that is adorable. Actually, I think they’re both adorable in that clip!
Me, too. Really cute.
He does not look good with those glasses. The only time he’s ever been sexy to me was in Star Trek.
Kaiser, I can always count on you to write a post that’ll lift my mood!
This made my day.
I’m crazy about him, so Kaiser you’re A+ in my book. Although, when I’m knee deep in a celebrity crush I can’t be objective…
There were some other Getty images of him from TIFF that are just gorgeous (sans eyewear) but I think he looks good no matter what.
I love him. He is not only my cup of tea, he is the entire caddy. I was so excited about Sher lock when it debuted. When I saw him for the fist time I actually looked at my friend and said,,,,,,”What the fuck IS that?!?1 What a strange creature!”. Within 5 minutes I was spellbound. Sad, but true……
@Kri. Can I just say ITA with every single word you wrote including being captivated within the first several minutes of Sherlock. I had the exact same reaction you had! 🙂
Not sad at all; true for me as well.
I’ve stopped trying to rationalize it.
I resisted the urge to watch Sherlock for a couple of years. I also didn’t get the attraction of BC, and I thought everyone who thought he was “OMG, sooooo hot” was blind.
I lasted a bit loner than you – I think it was about 15 minutes into Sherlock when I went “Ah, NOW I GET IT.”
That’s easily my new favorite portrait of him now. I LOVE his glasses and I totally got a Clark Kent vibe from the blue suit and specks. He’s got that natural little curl too.
This is one of my favorite looks of his. I hope he sticks with something similar. For me he can totally work those frames.
I could feast on that yumminess. Ba-dum chhhhhhh.
I like him with glasses, but they are a tad too small for his face that he is wearing them on an angle or something and it’s annoying me because I can’t unsee it.
He can leer at me through his glasses and call me “sweetheart” any time….
I’m with you, Encumbered. ANY time. ;P
I’m pretty sick of looking at his mug.
I don’t know if he’s a good actor because I don’t watch many films. The last movie I really even cared about was Evil Dead.
Is this the new Evil Dead remake or the original. I hated the new one. Graphics were awesome, but beside that I didn’t enjoy.
I’d much prefer to see Cumberbatch’s mug over the Kardashian she-devils anyday. Maybe, he’s not the most attractrive, but at least he had the talent.
Next time, instead if posting a passive-aggressive (at least that’s the way it came across to me) watch a movie or something of his or just ignore the article.
I loved the remake. 😀
I’m not being passive aggressive. I’m openly sick of looking at him in general. I realize that like every pop culture blog ever, Celebitchy has formed and set in its bias toward some public figures and I’m not expecting to change any minds, but I’m not willing to censor my opinion to ingratiate myself to an online community that frankly doesn’t make me feel welcome anyway.
I think my comment was fair enough. I never called him a bad actor. I never made any judgments about him except for how I *feel* about seeing him all over the place before even getting the chance to form an actual opinion, and that’s just it; my feelings and maybe a slight impulse. I wasn’t presenting it any other way except for that. I’d watch a project of his if it interested me, but that’s yet to happen and it’s completely subjective. Should I apologize for that?
For the record, I am very moody. I’m likely to disagree with most people depending on how I’m feeling at the moment.
Kaiser, your cumberlitis seems to be in its acute phase 😛 Beware: if you don’t do something ASAP, it’ll become chronic.
On the topic.. Erm. What’s the topic again?
Ben snorting and Eddie taking his Oscar’s votes away from him? 😉 I’m not sure if the latter will really happen. Yes, people in Hollywood already know him from Les Mis. But people in Hollywood might also know Ben from 12YAS. But what’s in Ben’s favour: TIG has all the ingredients for an Oscar movie – tragic lifestory, Nazis, homosexuality, problems with society. And of course a serious plot, otherwise these ingredients would have also (somehow) applied to Captain America. I don’t want to shade the importance or quality of the movies recently made, but when even Quentin Tarantino knows exactly what to put into his movies to get some Oscar nominations, then the Academy is not extactly surprising.
The “problem” I also see for Eddie is that by the time of voting the ALS ice bucket challenge might be old news again and therefore won’t work as PR for a movie about someone suffering from ALS.
And yes, I realise how cynical I sound.
Too hard to tell. Ben had the buzz coming off Telluride and Eddie out of TIFF, which makes sense since TIG was a Telluride opener and TTOE was a TIFF one.
Will say TIG is definitely winning the critics’ war. Not to say ER’s performance isn’t Oscar-worthy but it sounds like the film itself may drag it down.
@Isadora: it seems that overall TIG got better reviews than TTOE, even though TIG’s less stellar reviews started coming namely from TIFF. I don’t know, I think that Cumberbatch still has bigger chances than Redmayne, given all circumstances (Weinstein’s PR machine working full-time included).
I am following many film-related accounts on Twitter and the interesting thing is that few paid a lot of attention to TIG or TTOE. Now that TIFF is nearly over, critics start posting their top 5’s and TIFF discoveries and whatnot and a lot of them mention Phoenix, Foxcatcher (yet again!), Tokyo Tribe, The Look of Silence, Force Majeure, The Duke of Burgundy (which I’m dying to see since it’s produced by Wheatley AND stars Sidse Babett Knudsen from Borgen), also Nightcrawler and Jake Gyllenhaal are getting tons of buzz from the critics, BUT. They are not speaking about possible Oscar noms, of course – which usually tend to be more on the crowd-pleasing than critics-pleasing side lol.
Yes, the Academy is a different thing than film festivals – and I’m very glad about that! Especially the last few years Oscar’s have been very predictable to me, while most film festivals are a good place for great discoveries.
I guess we’ll have to wait for the Golden Globes to see how they’ll both do at the big award shows… My money’s on TIG though. 😉
I may be late to the party but I just read an article about the embarrassing “Cumberbitch” who asked him if she could have some of his ” yummy-ness” at a Q & A for his latest film . He answered that he was TAKEN and steered back to the topic of Alan Turning, the man he portrayed.
Sassy, there’s a video online where you can see him gesturing between himself and Keira as he says “sorry, I’m already taken”. This comes right after him making a comment that Alan Turing is yummy, and the whole audience laughed so it was just a joke about the Alan/Joan relationship and a way to kindly deflect the weird question.
I’ll just leave this here:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/mystery-sherlock-star-benedict-cumberbatchs-4256469
I saw this last night and fully expected to wake up this morning covered in ash from the apocalypse…
Eh ehehehe…. 😉
Well, it appears that I DO find Benedict Cumberbatch attractive… when wearing glasses. Yum!