Here is Benedict Cumberbatch’s cover of The Big Issue, a UK publication that has been “relaunched” or something. This isn’t the first time Bendy has given a major interview to The Big Issue, and the editor even admitted that they just put him on the cover again because his issues always sell like crazy. I’m also including some photos of our Otter looking surprisingly dapper at the 2nd Annual Breakthrough Prize Awards held at NASA Ames research center on Sunday. These are the first post-haircut, post-Cumbercurl photos that I’ve genuinely liked. Cutting off the Cumbercurls was such a terrible mistake! Thankfully, he seems to be letting the bad haircut grow out. As for The Big Issue… there are some quotes. I’m not going to transcribe the whole thing (the bulk of it is about Alan Turing, much of which we’ve heard before), so here are some meager highlights:
When he was 32, he thought ‘more seismic things of adulthood would have come, including being a father.’
Talking about his private life: ‘It always come back to haunt me in strange ways. I have been judged for my relationships or for not being a father in the weirdest ways. All I’ll say is when it’s right, it’s right.’
Thoughts on life and ageing: “I’m starting to realize you can say no to things and it won’t all fall to pieces. I really want to do more, by which I mean less work and more of other things. I want to be more present for other people. As I get older I increasingly feel the need to step back, ask what I’m neglecting, what do other people need of me. I want to be more impulsive, to be able to suddenly go away for the weekend. Whenever I get the rare chance to be impulsive I grab it with both hands, which is why I do stupid things sometimes. Having said that, I don’t know how long I’ll ride a motorbike for, I’m sure if and when I become a dad I won’t want to do that anymore.”
[From The Big Issue, print edition]
Many of you are already picking apart his thoughts on impulsivity and how he does “stupid things sometimes.” Like, is he talking about proposing to Sophie explicitly? Was his engagement an impulsive, stupid thing? All I can say is that after reading the whole article – conducted a few weeks before his engagement announcement – it sounds more like a man who just learned his life is going to turn upside down by fatherhood. Yes, I think Sophie is pregnant. I thought it was just idle, somewhat insulting gossip last week – as in, “Oh, of course he proposed, she’s obviously pregnant because that’s the only reason he would propose so soon” – but now I’m kind of down with that theory. He’s not talking like a guy who has found the love of his life. He’s talking like a guy who got a girl pregnant and is trying to make the best out of the situation.
PS… MOAR Cumber to come… the LA premiere of TIG was last night, plus lots of new quotes. Stay tuned and no threadjacking.
Photos courtesy of WENN, The Big Issue.
Why is this dude obsessed with being a dad? Who is judging him for it? Is that what posh people in England do? Weird.
Why can’t a man want a child?
Nothing wrong with that. But he seems to mention it in EVERY SINGLE INTERVIEW. Like chill dude, your sperm is good for 5 more decades, it’ll happen.
It sounds to me like he wants a child more than he wants a partner/wife. And yeah that is kind of creepy to me. Like, adopt dude. Don’t make some poor woman be your brood mare
I just think he badly wants a family, as do many people (myself included). He just happens to be very frank about it.
Which I find quite lovely 🙂
I have wondered this too. It isn’t that there’s anything wrong with wanting children —it’s that he brings it up constantly. I’ve never heard anyone talk about it so much. It seems to be driving him. Maybe to distraction. It sounds to me like he has a self-imposed deadline of being a father by the time he’s 40.
But I think he’ll be a great dad.
@nya – The members of the upper class in the UK never appear to have real jobs.
I agree with the pregnant theory.
It wouldn’t be the first time something like this happens.
If he is into motorbikes, he probably won’t be able to give up that.
I said the same yesterday. People I know have used them less but it’s in your blood, you don’t just stop it. Especially someone like him who says he loves extreme sports.
He’d be better off quitting smoking if he’s thinking of doing it for his kids, or at least going on to e-cigs although who knows what they do long term (Mr Lindy uses one)
I know someone who lost a leg from a motorcycle accident. He just got a trike instead and kept on riding.
I think it’s relative. My dad smoked from the age of 15 to 63, when he had a heart attack caused by smoking. Before that, he had cancer. The heart attack finally put him off smoking. The amount of cr*p we went through was enough to convince my siblings and I to never, ever, smoke. However, one of my closest friends just lost his father in a motorbike accident. Whatever you choose to do or give up might not be enough (or nothing might happen!)
Just popping in to see if anyone else wants to bet on how many comments this thread will reach? I’m thinking 450 minimum. The B.C threads have been getting a little “intense” the last few days so I’ll be ducking out after this 😉
My impulsiveness means I do stupid things sometimes too, like look at another Bendy thread…but you are obviously giving the people what they want given number of posts..Sheer Cumbermania …
I too have that impulsivity disorder with similar symptoms. But I think it’s understandable… It’s the ‘Cumberapocalypse Now’ after all…
well there are two Cumby threads today so the post count will be split…..
I’m still catching up with the previous two…
There are two BC threads today so they can compete against one another.
Lets call one Redmayne and the other Cumberbatch and watch them fight it out until one dies of exhaustion.
Alas, there are no Redmayne threads. Let’s call one Bouncing Benny and the other Cranky Benny.
Bouncing Benny is winning. I’m disappointed in you all. No love for Cranky B.C? :'(
Well, one had “engagment” in the title, so of course it’s winning. I see we are still in the “oooh my gaaawd, Cumberbunny is engaged!!!!”-phase. 😉
You don’t have to get married to be a good father. I don’t follow him. I’m not a cumbyfangirl.. but how insulting to this woman. That she is desperate because she is pregnant and would marry this man and forgo having a man that actually loves her and wants her in addition to a child if that is in fact the case.
Nobody know this man nor do they know this woman. Maybe he is the lucky one. Maybe he is grateful that he has her. It is so weird to me that women feel like this about a man they will never have nor have a chance with.
Yeah, he seems so grateful. How obvious…
In fairness if he is unhappy right now its his own damn fault. He is nearly 40 years old, he is in a sitaution that he put himself into, he needs to man up and deal with it.
Don’t want to marry her- don’t propose.
Don’t want a baby with her- don’t knock her up.
It’s funny, because I read his comments as those of a man who has just gotten engaged and was looking ahead to the things he’s wanted all along. There was nothing in this interview that sparked my conspiracy-theory radar whatsoever.
To me, “I want to be able to take impulsive weekends away” = Now that I’m getting married, I want to spend more time with my new wife and not be working all the time. “I’m going to have to stop riding motorcycles” = I’ve finally found the woman with whom I want to start a family!
I will also say that this is a man on record forever about wanting to start a family. If his fiancé IS pregnant, why assume that she’s the one who “caught” him? Why not assume that HE stopped using condoms because HE wanted to “catch” HER? My husband used condoms until the day we started trying to conceive, even though I was on the pill, because he had a role to play in our decision not to get pregnant, too. How much MORE responsible is any celebrity for protecting himself or herself, regardless of what their sex partners might be doing contraception-wise?
Also, abortion is legal and shotgun marriages aren’t exactly a thing anymore in the UK (or the USA, for that matter). If the man didn’t want to get married, he wouldn’t be getting married, and all this talk about how sad or unhappy he supposedly looks strikes me as so much fantasy.
He’s also on record as having wanted to do Hamlet for his entire career. Rehearsals for that start in June, and performances through the end of October. Sure to be a grueling time for him, so is it really the best time to bring a baby into the picture? Not to mentions how busy he is *now* with all the projects he’s juggling. If she is pregnant I can’t imagine it was planned. And as for how unhappy he looks, just compare the way he looks now to photos of him at Comicon last June.
That’s a very good post, Ellen and I agree with you. If she is pregnant, it’s not necessarily an accident or mistake. I think he fell in love with a woman, wanted to marry her, and wants a family with her. And if he looks tired or miserable, it’s because he’s got a lot on his plate now and for the next few months.
Why would he say he wants ‘weekends away’? He doesn’t have a mon to fri job and she doesn’t seem to have any job at all. Besides, it was only a few weeks agai he was saying he was booked up until 2016
And why on earth are people so convinced she’s pregnant? Seems odd.
I’m sorry but I just can’t with the “Hamlet is not the best time for a baby.” Babies are born every single second of every single day to parents who work far more grueling and demanding jobs for far less money than an actor prancing around on a London stage wearing tights and spouting Shakespeare. And if having a baby within the next year was something he didn’t want, then he should have made sure that he didn’t make someone pregnant. Not that he necessarily did because there has been no declaration of a pregnancy.
I agree, there is no perfect time to have a baby unless you both have more money than god and don’t do anything all day and have zero fears or reservations about it.
Agree, Lilacflowers. Military families have children through deployments for goodness sake. So do families where both parents work and the mother doesn’t have maternity leave, meaning both parents rush back to work as soon as possible. Being on stage every night might be stressful, but it’s not as if that’s some sort of total barrier toward having a child when the other parent is not working and you can hire all the staff you could possibly need.
Well as far as I am concerned if she is it was planned. Benny just does not give a feeling of spontaneity. It is one of the reasons his performances have a tendency to be predictable. I have always thought his insults are designed to get maximums publicity for what ever he is publicising. He has just exchanged them with comments about himself.
Lilacflowers I am afraid here we are looking at the let your nanny bring up baby brigade.
But I a on the not pregnant side unless they plan to call it Oscar.
What Lilacflowers said. Yes, he is doing Hamlet, but at least he is in London and comes home every night. Would it be a better time to have a kid when he’s away filming god-knows-where? And even in such a situation people become parents (like lunchcoma said, military people for example).
So he is booked until 2016, okay. But he will still be at a critical point in his career by then – he might be just after an Oscar nomination or at least on the brink of becoming truly famous and he will have new, demanding projects for 2017 and 2018. What do you think, that he will be busy until 2016 and then have 4 years of break for making a few babies? I can’t imagine it, to be honest.
@lisa2 – Maybe they are both lucky to have each other but by all appearances………
I hate to say it but I’m starting to think maybe she is pregnant. I wonder if she’ll show up with him when he comes back to the States on Friday. (Not sure if I’ve got that right. Supposedly he went back to the UK and is coming back here Friday.) I was thinking maybe then Sophie would show up and maybe he’d be happier. I don’t know anymore. Whatever way I turn the situation. something is definitely off.
I don´t know if she is pregnant. If she has a child and stares at it as she stares into cameras, I pity the poor baby. It will think his /her mother hates him / her.
BC is so old-fashioned that I can image that even nowadays he would marry a woman just because she is pregnant with his baby. Not the best decision.
If she’s pregnant I think he’s going to LOVE this baby. Loving the mother could be an other story.
Zazie, you’ve seen that collage of her staring into the cameras at events too? It genuinely makes me laugh.
@Lindy: I saw it. Very strange!
I went away for a week and the Otter got engaged?
And the world as you know it ceased to exist.
Run. Run while you still can. Run hard. Run long. Just run…. 😉
Morning GNAT! You join us in the aftermath of the internet’s meltdown.
Help yourself to a mimosa (or anything with gin if you’re needing something stronger) and then grab a broom; the clean-up begins.
Or maybe we can coerce the Lord of the Dragonflies into getting his forest friends to do it for us…
The Lord of the Dragonflies is working and has no time for this. Colin Firth, my butler, has been sending staff around to clean-up and has been keeping the sideboard stocked with food and beverages.
You missed the rolly polly fish heads, too.
Which were not to be missed.
Dammit.
It’s a black hole here, gnat. Once you climb into the vortex you may never escape.
Ok, I had to pop in for 2 seconds. If Sophie is pregnant, I hope B.C isn’t a red carpet belly cupper.
HOWEVER
If there was a wedding photo released like this, I take back all aspersions on belly cupping by the male. Mostly because I would want to see tumblr burst into flames squeeing.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/14/article-0-1F9C5A8B00000578-995_634x861.jpg
A heart made with your hands
Sh-t just got serious
Don’t worry about that, BC hasn’t been able to master the ‘normal’ heart sign (remember last year’s TIFF?), let alone he’ll be doing that. He wants to be private now people!!!!!!!!!!! (LOL!)
https://38.media.tumblr.com/ba8b5e0da58284992ed4af4fda442ba7/tumblr_msrklitGbL1qdghnpo6_500.jpg
P.S. Enjoy the scary difference between a BC attempting heart signs to show his love to fans/the crowd and, erm, well, late 2014 BC. YI to the KES.
“I have been judged for my relationships or for not being a father in the weirdest ways”
But you don’t read about yourself on line…Nope…not one bit…not at all.
His persona is falling apart more and more as he continues…
I’m mildly entertained. Carry on.
I think he judges himself more than anyone else.
That is a very odd comment, isn’t it? How is he being judged for not being a father? Cumby’s got some wild OCD about being/not being a father. He should let some of that pressure out.
I believe some of this is a result of all of his friends getting married and having young children. He feels left behind, somehow. He sounds pre-occupied with it now.
Relax a little bit, Cumby! It will happen. Take a nap now while you still can.
It proves to me at least that he’s more than aware of comments about him and it affects him a great deal more than he lets on.
He’d have to be aware of the comments even if he doesn’t Google himself or check social media. Your PR makes sure you are.
We all know PR people check online sites. He’s always claimed he pays no attention to it though…
I think his mother brings up her desire for more grandchildren in every single conversation she has with him.
That has to be true to some extent, Lindy79, otherwise, he’d be seriously screwed up by now. But I’m sure some of the odder stuff, like that Daily Mail psychoanalysis, is a bit piercing.
Yes, Lilacflowers, so true!
Mr Lindy gets it a fair bit from his side, not mine as much. We also got non stop “would you not get engaged” when we moved in together..we even got a mass card sent down to us, I kid you not. It didn’t rush us and we got engaged and married when it suited us.
You do it when you’re ready, which hey he could very well be now. I hope it’s not that the pressure got to him.
To be fair, even George Clooney got married before he did. That’s gotta hurt.
I think he might be talking more about his parents and friends. I know I get it from mine. 🙁
He once talked about how people found his face unattractive. My heart broke for him.
Ugh, Benedict. No one would have judged you for not being a father if you hadn’t kept talking about it in the first place. We get it. You’re broody. You want kids, you always have. Of course we’re going to wonder why you still don’t have them and what was stopping you.
Well, it looks like you’ll have one soon.
Oh god, best comment!
I read someweher that he explained the wedding announcement ad in the Times as follows: it was a good way for them to inform friends whom they hadn’t told about the wedding yet. He also said that where he’s from, it’s perfectly normal to announce your wedding that way.
Up until then I quite liked him, but all I could think of when reading that explanation was ‘dude, if you want to inform your friends about your upcoming wedding, write them an EMAIL.’
and um……she doesn’t seem to have any friends
Or, you know, pick up the phone. Why wouldn’t you tell your friends before putting it in the papers? So confusing to me.
Exactly. Those friends aren’t completely cut off from the world and unreachable apart from a random newspaper coming out on a random day.
It’s like a Russian spy code!
Phonecall, Text, email, whatsapp, viber, skype, word of mouth, carrier pigeon, smoke signal, morse code, telegram.
Yes I can see how an announcement in The Times was truly his only option. How horrid for someone so private to have no other choice and have to do it because it’s normal and tradition.
It’s written in the Cumberbatch family Manifesto that he’ll get his head shaved and his chamray shirt and tiny hats confiscated if he didn’t do it.
Maybe send a raven from Winterfell? So many options.
Or use an easel like the royals do 😀
THAT would have been classy.
Have the guy in the funny hat shout it from the front of the National Theatre
https://communities.bmc.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-5967-53723/606x341_233012_royal-baby-birth-announcement.jpg
It’s not like she’s working right now (that I can gather). She has plenty of time to send emails with the glad tidings! Hell she could have sent save the date cards in the mail to relay the message before anyone got that grainy photo of her ring (that we still don’t have).
Does he know that his friends and wider family automatically check the Times for wedding announcements? If not it seems a rather flawed plan that they’d all see it, if you believe him.
@Zapp Raven from Winterfell, that made me laugh out loud!!!
Here to represent the mail owls from the Harry Potterverse. Carry on…
(Btw, forever annoyed that he never had a part in the Harry Potter movies. *Thinks about making a Dementor joke re. engagement that’s not particulary nice, decides not to*
I assumed he meant their parents’ friends and people who’d known them as children. That’s who announcements are usually for. But I’d agree it doesn’t go well with the claims of privacy – by its nature, an announcement is something that brings the public into your engagement.
This was my theory 2 threads ago. I think they are traditional enough to want to do the marriage even if it was an oops baby. He looks miserable.
December wedding!! Saying this for so long it might as well become true
Yep. December 7, I bet – the day of infamy. They’re on a 30 day roll-out, so…..
His comments in the past lead me to believe that HE is traditional and would not want a baby out of wedlock. Sophie is “appropriate,” I guess.
‘We’ve both found Sophie’s ‘ said Cumberbatch to Matthew Goode last night in the press line. Wouldn’t Matthew have already known that – it was only one month ago that BC and MG were at TIFF together.
If she is pregnant – I will side eye so hard. I don’t believe it’s promo but I do believe he is settling.
Also – what is it with some journo’s and fans saying his eyes are glistening and he is clearly happy – are they seeing something I don’t?
Oh!! he is beaming with happiness..I am personally being blinded by the beam..
Matthew said that. BC can’t mutter her name it’s too much privacy.
The article says BC said it.
In the LAX photo I swear he looks like he had been crying. Could be fatigue or just woke up but he looks so sad.
@Moodgirl: Exactly what I thought
I wouldn’t read too much into the LAX photos. Aggressive paps + long flight would piss off anyone.
However on the red carpet during this week he almost looks like he’s about to burst into tears. But maybe that just me, or the flashes or something…
Chateau Marmont pap photos from the previous (?) thread were in the Alec Baldwin pap photo territory. Scary.
I don’t think she’s pregnant.
Geemoney, why don’t you think so?
For the record, I don’t either.
I think so many things right now…
I just don’t. I have my theories on what I think is going on here… the biggest is that this woman is all wrong for him, and this bad relationship is pushing him down a path that is leading him away from who he really is. It’s making him cranky, angry and unpleasant. I think he got tired of waiting for the one, and Sophie is a close enough match to what he wants that he just threw his hands up in the air and said “I surrender.”
I think she’s just using him, and using the “idea” of a family to try and get whatever she can from him. And I feel like I’m the only one who can see it.
He needs to get away from her. And take a break. And calm down. The right one comes along when you least expect it. He’s just being impatient.
I hope this all works out in the long run. Valentine is out there somewhere.
@geemoney, interesting insight, thanks.
I haven’t seen love, but he walked into this. Why walk into something that makes you that miserable?
If we can see it and it looks bad, imagine what his loved ones are seeing.
They are the ones I feel for the most! They are probably heart broken.
Hopefully he’ll wake up. He’s a smart guy, and is too old to be letting his emotions get the best of him at this point in time in his life, although I can sympathize with him. I’m getting older and I’m still single, and wondering if I’ll meet the right person, too.
I hope I do. But it has to just happen naturally. We can’t force these things or choose the wrong person just b/c we are afraid it’ll never happen. All a person can do is just focus on being happy and be hopeful.
And most of all… be patient.
I think he’ll be one of those fathers who does “fun stuff” with the kids but magically disappears when disciplinary action has to take place/kids are going through terrible twos/any work is involved.
This x1000.
Very well could be pregnant, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing or he didn’t want it or he’s miserable or that she trapped him. Presumably, they both knew the risks of..whatever they did. The timing is not ideal since he has so much work and Hamlet coming up, but I don’t think he’d think of a baby as a bad thing. Could be he fell in love with Sophie (sometime in August maybe) and they both tried to get pregnant after that.
And yes Lucifer- I’m with you on a December wedding.
I know this is off beat but I just do NOT understand how grown women ‘accidentally’ get pregnant? Like, do you not know birth control of so many sorts exist? And you’d think at 30+ you’d really be smarter than just having unprotected sex for SO many reasons, not just pregnancy. It is just beyonddddd me how it happens so often. Like, oopsie! pregnant! It’s embarrassing how irresponsible people can be (both men and women). Sex feels great, obviously, but it also brings babies, in case they didn’t know.
Condoms break, a woman may forget to take her pill one time. It happens.
No method of birth control is 100% effective. When I was on one of my chemo medications that caused increased fertility (just what you want after going through a bout with cancer), I was directed to use double barrier.
Oy, I’m sorry Lilac 🙁 I don’t mean to be harsh about it, it was just a general confusion. I understand that condoms break etc. but the off chance of that happening (1% or less apparently) are mind boggling. Especially with pills – if you’re taking them religiously and miss 1-2 days, it doesn’t throw off your hormones and bam pregnant, especially as you age.
@Dani, all is well. I didn’t take your post as harsh. But although most birth control is really effective, if used properly, nothing is 100% and people don’t realize that. And given how much sex happens, 1% can still mean a lot of unintended pregnancies.
I have never understood it. My co – worker said she had two pill babies because of body chemistry but I don’t understand how especially older women can be careless. SH lived with a guy and assuming she has had various relationships throughout her 36 years she should know the deal.
On the other hand she is 36 and decided maybe take a chance knowing how he would respond. IF she is pregnant he is doing exactly what I would expect a man in his position to do. My friend got pregnant because she really wanted a baby but she was broke and jobless without an education. The father was a bum. She made it but she was working day and night. I can’t see it.
LOL! Years ago my group would go out to a club and my friends grandmother would shout “You all know where babies come from right? Do l need to give you a refresher course?” We were in our thirties.
Oh, I know LOTS of women who’ve gotten accidentally pregnant in their 30s. They’re in serious relationships and not using condoms, and they forget a pill like anyone else might. It’s just that those pregnancies aren’t so visible as being unplanned because to anyone who doesn’t know the couple, it’s just a family having a third baby or some newlyweds having a honeymoon baby. Or there’s no baby at all. Older people tend to be a little more prepared to deal with unplanned pregnancy than younger ones, so fewer friends and family members get brought into the loop.
Or are we just copying the plot of Parade’s end with this whole SH is pg theory?
well, he has said that he admires Tietjens more than any other character he has played
Which is upsetting on so many levels. Won’t get into how much Tietjens pissed me off — even though Ben was amazing in Parade’s End.
I kept expecting something to fly out of his mouth, whatever he had in there to change his speech was very distracting. He was good in it but I’m really pissed off that wench who cut down the tree……
Just thought I would mention that The Big Issue is a magazine sold by homeless vendors so I think it’s great that he does interviews with them. I always think it’s really weird that people try to ascribe reasons for celebrity marriage to actors, like he knocked her up, of course he has to marry her. She might be pregnant, but this is 2014, maybe he just loves her?
I’m not going back up to quote him exactly, but he said something like “I’m always being judged on my relationships..”and apparently, he is right. Some of the comments since his engagement was announced have been wild. We don’t know much about them as a couple. They kept it on the low. So what. They announced it in a manner that is quite ordinary in their circle. They are both posh and artsy, not a glittering power couple like Bey & Jay. I don’t see Si getting onstage and yanking her jacket open to show off a (possible) bump. Bottom line-they are two adults who are engaged. Congrats, love the Batch, SI is lucky. The end.
Self fulfilling prophecy in a way. The only judgment about his relationships that I saw before this debacle was the awful Mail psychoanalytical piece about him a few years ago. That seems to have touched a raw nerve. (I can understand why because it may have hit on things he thought about himself at his lowest points.)
Now, people are judging him. Poor thing, really. But something’s up. It’s almost like he’s defensive. Yes, he’s working hard, but his plate has been loaded before.
@kri I am in total agreement. Prior to the engagement, I used to think that their relationship was weird. I sat on the fence as to whether they were or weren’t a couple. Now, I think they are just in love and getting married. No speculation required. So his actions aren’t reflective of his words spoken in the past, this man flip flops, nothing new there. I think it’s best to say, whatever is happening is probably the opposite of what everyone here believes.
When it seems complicated, make it simple.
God, so much this. I have NO idea where any of you are getting any of this gossipy speculation. Or why. Presumably, you’re fans of his, so why are you all so eager to indulge in nasty little idle speculation about his personal life? You know he’s a real person and not an idea, right? and that gossip like this can actually hurt him? I don’t know where anyone is getting this “bad relationship/loveless marriage/pregnant” stuff. You don’t know him. You don’t know her. You know nothing whatsoever about their relationship. Just STOP. GOD.
He’s being judged for not having children? By yourself, dear boy, finding the right person isn’t something you can force, it just happens when it happens. Or you knock up a girlfriend by “accident” and then you have to make do. Long long side eye to the whole thing. I think he could have done better than the pretentious pretender she seems to be.
@OhHey
My friend’s and I completely agree. Like I’ve been saying in other threads, this isn’t mean to be. Other posters seem to echo my WOC opinion. From what my girlfriends have pointed out, I think he’s miserable because he’s not being “who he really is.”
Of all the gorgeous pictures out there of him, why did they pick this one? Close up and not smiling is not a good look for him. Who would look good like that? He has those adorable dimples. Smile!!
I think she is pregnant. I have no idea why he is so miserable. Even if he were not happy with getting married, it should not put him in the most foul mood that lasts for months. There has to be something wrong with him. He is an actor. He should ACT happy. You have to put on a happy face in life. All of us do.
I think the “I do stupid things sometimes” would be a reference to thrill sports and such events as deciding to stay late and drive back at night that night in South Africa, leading to a frightening, life-threatening situation.
“I do stupid things sometimes” as a reference to a spouse would be once the ink has dried on the divorce papers, not 5 minutes after the engagement, methinks. Right now hope still springs eternal there, I imagine.
You can read about it in this old Hollywood Reporter interview:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/benedict-cumberbatch-confessions-fifth-estate-625408?page=1
which also features these freshly salient quotes:
…the Internet, where vitriol “is horrific. You can’t win. It’s like a new form of bullying. I find it quite despicable.”
“I’m not like Holmes,” he says. “I don’t have his capacity to compartmentalize.” Cumberbatch adds, “I’m now haunted with, ‘But he did want children, and now he doesn’t? What’s gone wrong? Is he gay? Can’t he commit to relationships?’ All this speculative sh-t. There’s a point where I just go, ‘I’ve said all I have to say.’ “
Lookin’ good.
I just typed his name into Getty Images and then under the specific person tab I clicked on her name to see a grand total of 9 images of her connected to him. However, only 7 of them have them in the same shot. The other two are from their outing to that restaurant last month. Keira Knightly has 279. Sad when your co-star has 270 more pictures than your SO. Also, I am throwing this out there (I don’t know if anyone else has). I also saw the black dress that Keira was wearing at the last event and thought that she might be pg, so my theory is that he has a thing for Keira (he punches a reporter and defends her when another says that she looks tired). His words were something along the lines of “that’s rude to say to one of the most beautiful women in the world”. Since she is married and he can’t have her and if she is pg. It really pushed him over the edge.