When my dog is really tired and he wants me to rub his belly, he drops to the floor, throws his paws in the air and shows me a wonderful “submission” position. That’s what I feel like doing at this point with Benedict Cumberbatch, and no, that’s not a sex thing. I just feel like, “Okay, I get it. I submit. You are reaching for that Oscar. I SUBMIT!!” These are photos of Benedict at last night’s 2014 CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute, which was held at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. I’m also including a photo of Benedict outside of The Daily Show, because YES, Benedict has been blanketing all of the New York-based media outlets this week. I SUBMIT!!! Here’s the video of Bendy on TDS:
Jon Stewart is so nice. Jon starts off by acknowledging the Cumberladies in the audience, then he lets Bendy talk about Alan Turing and the movie. I actually learned something new about “the Turing Test” and artificial intelligence. And Jon sort of wants to marry him too!
What else? Ugh. There’s a rumor that Benedict is going to be on the cover of Time Magazine this week. With a real Enigma machine, apparently. And Benedict spoke about his lover and fiancée Sophie Hunter with USA Today on the red carpet two nights ago – he explained why they decided to make their red carpet debut:
“(I thought), we’re going to be doing this for our whole lives, so sometimes, if you want to come with me, this is what it’s going to be like. She was very cool with it and loved it,” said Cumberbatch. “We both went to the London premiere but not together. We weren’t engaged and there was no reason to sort of show off to the world.”
Cough. I’m not going to participate in the Twihard Proofing of this relationship and of Sophie Hunter, but I’ll just say… any woman who can participate in sketchball, NSFW, half-naked music videos for “art” probably has no problem walking a red carpet with her fiancé.
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.
I wish Jon Stewart got as much attention here as Benedict Cumberbatch.
Self deprecating, wicked smart and lightening fast. JS is lovely. He really tries to be empathetic and understanding of opposing viewpoints too. But I wouldn’t wish the BC type of attention on anyone.
seriuosly. I wonder how he will manage to maintain his sanity and true to whatever himself he was before this madness. one positive thing about him: as rushy and odd his engagement would appear, he didn’t chose a 22 yo bimbo. that’s something in HW
@santana Her not being 22 doesn’t mean much.
+1 I’m sick of his odd face.
Very easy to avoid his face.
Don’t search for articles with it.
I like how in the end Jon mentioned another movie is coming on 28th and BC plugged for his movie saying “Rosewater”
This was a great interview
Yep, The Batch is campaigning like a Clinton. And since I have not seen any of SH’s um..artistic endeavors except for a small part in “Vanity Fair”, I bit the bullet and watched her video. I wish I had used that bullet to shoot myself in my ears. That being said, she is not wearing alot of clothes, and has a model’s body for sure. I can see him liking that. She needs to start showing it off a bit.
*sits back and waits for it*
Bahaha at “Batch campaigning like a Clinton” – that’s a mighty fine compliment you just gave Benny. And quite accurate, too.
I like the song :shrugs:
b careful what u wish for!
I don’t know what video you watched, but if it’s the “artsy” one with the dead mollusks, that isn’t her in the video; it was a dancer hired for the visual part of the music video. I saw a link recently to the dancer’s page, and she talks about the shoot.
Getting so tired of Benny… 🙁
“Used to love him, but I had to kill him, lalalalala” (in my mind….this song fits how I’m starting to feel about him…)
PS : I’m talking about my devotion to him…. ok?
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm0f4jJnQq1qdlkgg.gif
“She was very cool with it and loved it,”
She didn’t f*cking look like she did
“I thought, we’re going to be doing this for our whole lives”
That’s ambitious
Hope he didn’t impulsively put that down payment on the sea cottage if he suddenly decided that he does want to do this forever after all.
Can someone enlighten me on the sea cottage, please? I must have missed something.
I forget which interview it was but it was very recent where he basically said he was done with doing all these projects and wanted to leave to a cottage.
Thanks, Felice. ;-}
IKR? #lolatleastyoutriedBen
@lindy yr comments are perfect x
This guy irrtates me, if he was an actress they would annhathway her.
Batchaway? BennyAnnE?
hahaha like it, Batchaway all the way.
@Enastein, that’s my favorite too. I like the double meaning.
BENNYANNE!!!!!!!!! THAT’S IT!!! I liked that so much, MR, that I had to come and post on a BennyAnne thread and say so. Now I’ll go back to my man’s turf. 😀
Batchaway sounds like insect repellent. Oh, o.k.
Batchaway is GOLD^^
This should be an accepted verb. Annhathaway away, Ben.
He is starting to get annoying.
It’s not compulsory to click on the links…
^^^This.
Starting😰
“We both went to the London premiere but not together. We weren’t engaged and there was no reason to sort of show off to the world.”
Maybe it’s just me, but I find this comment really, really odd.
Lots of actors attend events with girlfriends they are not engaged to. In fact, BC himself has done that many times. It’s normal behaviour for a couple who want to support one another, not ‘showing off to the world’. Is this the 1950s, and it’s not done to appear in public together unless you’ve got an ‘official’ relationship?
The more I read about this engagement, the odder it all seems.
It’s bullpoop.
He’s trying to answer the weirdness around his soon-to-be fiancee being visibly there, walking out the hotel in front of photographers, having her own car, and marching down the red carpet with her own handler, instead of quietly going with his other friends and family in her Where’s Waldo dress.
It’s ridiculous, isn’t it?
You’d swear no actor ever had a girlfriend before. You’d swear the earth was going to tilt off its axis if Benedict the Great was seen with a …… woman!
Every time I see his miserable gob these days, I feel like shouting ”Get over yourself, love!”
Where’s Waldo dress….oh Lindy, I bow to you oh queen of ‘batch terms.
“The more I read about this engagement, the odder it all seems.”
don’t you mean the otter it seems 😉
😘
It’s also wtf because he attended plenty of red carpets with ex’s and friends so does that mean he was engaged to all of them? Or is he throwing shade at them?
Good thing his exes have moved on with their merrily lives or else I would see them going “Ummmmm excuse me?” But maybe they also know the PR game and are just shaking their heads.
Like Lindy said, it’s just a lie to address the oddness of the situation. And it doesn’t make any sense because it’s a lie.
Truthfully, it really hasn’t made any sense to analyse his statements post-enGAGment because they are all just bunch of PR crap.
He gets briefed about the questions raised and he addresses them during his next interview. It’s very clear. However, because this situation really is *ridiculous*, so are his explanations. If even Ben himself can’t make sense of this, no one can.
I need a Benny break. Thank God, his US promo is over(-ish) for now.
I know 99% of people don’t analyse his interviews like we do, but still, his saying they weren’t together at the premiere because ” there was no reason to sort of show off to the world” line is almost admitting that this is all about PR (the ‘engagement’ that is, not neccessarily the entire relationship, FWIW).
How about you wanted to be with your almost fiancee because, oh I dunno, you love each other and wanted to be together at an important event in your career? Don’t most people want to support their partners at such times? It would be one thing if Sophie weren’t at the premiere at all – maybe she was busy, sick, had family commitments, whatever. But the fact that she WAS there – but not with him – is bizarre given that they announced their engagement just weeks later. No wonder his rambling answers make no sense at all, because the whole thing makes no sense at all.
She wasn’t with his family and friends either and she also looked pissed off according to people who saw her.
@Etheldreda – “is almost admitting that this is all about PR”
Yes, our boy is slipping.
I truly think the whole LFF thing was supposed to make headlines but PR miscalculated it badly. They though tabloids would be all over her but in reality none of them did and she was even mistaken for a different actress (talk about embarrassing). They realized that no one gives sh*t about her, so they had to up their game. If she was fiancée, not a GF, people would pay attention.
The situation is messy because of the miscalculations and hasty adjustments.
Its also bizarre since he mentioned or confirmed her by name in the vogue interview (being published next month) which was done around the same time as London and not mentioning hide nor hair of her before that in interviews that were published pre-engagement.
Almost as if he knew they’d be going public by then. But how could he have known that? What kind of psychic intrigue is this? He is truly magical.
*scratches head*
@Ingrid
Interesting theory.
Maybe he thought the papers would be intrigued with this ‘are they or aren’t they’ game. Instead, people thought ”So Sherlock may or may not be dating some posh dilettante? Meh”.
@lindy
Couldn’t Vogue have contacted him for an updated statement after the engagement was announced?
It could’ve been an updated statement, but if they were mentioning the Botanical Gardens, wouldn’t the person know that there were no pics there? That it was just some twitter stuff? They knew about it, but not enough? But they’re the one updating the VOGUE statement?
*tinfoil hat firmly in place* I think the b. Gardens was a pap opportunity that never materialized. They knew there was going to be an engagement announcement at that point. They were prepping.
Lindy, I thought the name dropping in Vogue was evidence that the timing of the engagement and announcement was prearranged for maximum impact prior to his US press tour.
I just get this overwhelming sense that Wein-Batch & Co are constantly trying to manipulate & pull the wool over my eyes. It’s exhausting and every time I feel it, I like him less and less.
Of course BC’s comment seemed weird because it is. Lots of people take SOs to premieres. BC has done it himself, multiple GFs, over multiple years. He just trying to get by with some half-assed explanation about why she was never around before and now she is. This wouldn’t be the freak show that it’s become if they’d just behaved like a normal couple. Just ignore the paps and go about your business. Other celebrities do it all the time. The paps’ll get bored and move on to the next it couple. Heck at this rate everyone will get bored of BC and move on.
I think I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’m just a Sherlock fan, rather than a BC fan. I love the whole cast. I’ve followed Martin, Rupert, and Mark Gatiss all for years. Though I can’t bear to watch it lately. Too much BC overload. We can’t miss you, Ben, if you never go away!
Is anyone excited to see TIG? I thought the other clip BC was using for interviews was boring, but the one they showed on The Daily Show? That was actually worse. His acting was just so stilted and emotionally vacant. If the rest of the movie is like that I can’t see him getting a nomination, let alone the Oscar. But then I absolutely hated Parade’s End for the same reasons. There’s a lot of buzz around TIG but I’m just not getting it. Maybe his people are just choosing bad scenes? Bored now.
i dnt get it either. saw the muvi. soul-less overacting
@justme
I do think BC has started to believe all the hype around him. He really seemed to think that half the female population of the world would rush to commit suicide just because he had announced his engagement. I think he fancies himself as Paul McCartney, and SH as Linda Eastwood circa 1968. In reality, he’s just a 38 year old actor with a hit TV series but not a whole lot else to his name. Oh sure, he’s flavour of the month right now, but that goes with the territory of being an Oscar hopeful in a Harvey Weinstein film. Who knows if anyone will be talking about him 5 years from now?
To repeat my imaginary rebuke to him ”Get over yourself, sweetheart!”
@Just me: I have the same impression of his acting in TIG from all the clips I’ve seen. It looks like trying too hard. A few months ago, when I was in the full bloom of my Cumbercrush, I finally got to watch “Parade’s End” after hearing so much about it and reading so many things where Cumby said how much he admired Tietjens. … And I was surprised to find that my reaction was not to be moved and impressed by his performance but to say to myself, “What happened to his face? Why is his acting so stilted? I do not understand this character at all.” And it’s not because I don’t understand the great British upper-class traditions and mores, blah blah etc., that he and Tietjens hold so dear; I’ve been steeped in it through a lifetime of reading English literature. The production wasn’t well-served by the weird Stoppard adaptation or by the disconcerting performance of Rebecca Hall, either, but I just wasn’t into Cumbers as Tietjens at all.
I agree that he seems to believe, at the moment, that the world is revolving around him and his 5-eva love. But it’s not just recently, I noticed. A while back, earlier this year, he was on some U.S. talk show—was he on Ellen? Maybe it was Ellen—the one where they asked him if he preferred dogs or cats. Anyway, he was also asked about what music he liked, and he looked at the audience with a small sweeping gesture and suggested that they would know as well as he did what type of music he was into, and … crickets. He really expected everyone to be his fangirl. 🙁
I don’t get it either, he does know he’s not an actual 19th century gentleman, does he? He sometimes comes across as one, like a bemused time traveller. Sir, Ichabod Crane you are not. (Sleepy Hollow reference…)
I somehow think he’d be odd in 19th century too, except back then people would just call him an eccentric and let him be.
‘A bemused time traveller’
Oh god how I love this description of him. It’s cute as hell.
I don’t care about anything. I loves him and all his …quirks. 😉
@Grace Hahaha, probably! They’d go out of his way and he’d probably be some obscure scientist/novelist. Alternative timeline Benedict for the win!
@Marvel I have to say, I love me some bemused time travellers personally. Most of them fictional atm though. 😉
His explanations are as ridiculous as his behavior. Dude needs an intervention.
I wonder who’s idea it was not to show it off to the world? And isn’t this where she paraded down the red carpet by herself? Maybe she demanded that they appear together, he said go eff yourself, so she did a “I’ll show you” and went her darn self. Then she was so pissed off that she didn’t go to the after party. Along with the restaurant scene where he left her in the car and went into the building, these two sound like they’re on the same page. 😉
and thn BAM engaged..apology engagement anyone?
@Lucifer – They’re engaged because he needed the image makeover from teeny bopper idol to serious actor. Without this PR engagement he would had a few interviews and then gone home. With it he’s everywhere. HW is going to get his money.
“The more I read about this engagement, the odder it all seems.”
Hahaha, yes, his PR quotes are getting worse and worse. I repeatedly stated that I won’t speculate about his or her emotional investment (I don’t have a crystal ball and I’m not really into astrology, except just for fun), but whatever his or Harvey’s PR strategy with the whole engagement and serious actor routine was, he’s not very… let’s say he is hardly a PR expert. *lol* Benny.. the things you say. *smh*
If he keeps going like that he will reach Kristen Stewart levels of awkwardness. Isn’t she also campaigning this year? Wouldn’t it be nice to have KStew stutter through her acceptance speech while judging people hard and Benny thank the “Cumber-bitch of his own”. *rofl*
Another Ben article–must be a day that ends in ‘y’ !!! ENOUGH ALREADY!!
I’m sick of this man, why did you post something about him every single day!!!!
2 posts about Angelina Jolie today = total 86 comments
2 posts about BC yesterday = 900+ comments
It’s not a tricky questions, why CB keeps posting about him. If you’re not interested, don’t click and don’t comment. Jeez
@flavia_deluce
That seems to escape some people, that an average of 200 to 900+ comments means you are going to get more CB posts because OBVIOUSLY someone is interested.
What do you mean there are only 12 comments here?! For the love of God, what does Benedict Cumberbatch have to do to get some attention and some COMMENTS?!
Is everyone taking a nap? Putting together an engagement scrapbook to be sent to His Lordship? Making fresh calimari? What?!?!
I’m just completely bored with His Weirdness. He needs to get over his self-importance.
I’m LOLING hahahahahah
Random note – I was looking for a baby shower gift online and I kept seeing all these Octopus themed toys. The Cumberbabies and the Cumbermama will be so happy.
P.S. Not a baby shower gift for the Cumbermama btw, ahem. But I’ll of course buy them all of the Octopus themed toys may the time be there. I’m a good fan everyone…he and Sophie must luvvvvv me. 😉
One of the best things we got was that octopus that says colors in three different languages. That thing was cute.
🙂
Jon was crushing hard on Cumberbatch last night and I do mean HARD. It was cute.
Interview went well so it’s all good.
It was funny when they joked about how they could kill not just the internet, but make satellites fall out of the sky by having His Otterness pose like Kardashian.
That made me laugh.
This was a great show though. The Jonathan Gruber material was funny and BC’s interview was amazing. All about Turing and one jab about the engagement. It should always just be Turing but noooooooo.
Just wrote a long comment on the other thread, so I’m pretty much Cumbered-out for the day, but I agree that this whole campaign plays so much better when it’s actually focused on TIG and Turing. And it’s a hell of a lot more interesting. The JS interview was refreshing. Shame his team’s PR game seems to be about anything other than the movie.
Also wondering whether BC has somehow convinced himself (or someone else has convinced him) that TIG is his one and only shot at an Oscar, which is why he seems so hell-bent on campaigning. I get that this is HW and campaigning is part of the deal, but the whole thing just seems so…desperate.
Other than that, I think I’m done speculating. We’ll just have to see how it all plays out, I guess.
I don’t care about his engagement. I don’t hate his fiancee. I hate his fans sucking up to her and his weirdness around it. Also his very dickish comments like degrading his own fiancee down to his fan name. I guess with that, I indirectly care about his engagement but I never thought I had a chance with him lol. I met him twice and I’m good with that lol. I can’t wait for Awards season to be over lol. I saw the movie at TIFF it’s so great.
@Floribunda
This has Harvey’s fingerprints all over it. I knew were going to go down this path when The Weinstein Company out bid four other production companies for The Imitation Game. Harvey is savvy, ruthless and he wants his $7 million dollars worth and more. But let’s face it, not even God has more influence over the Oscar outcomes than Weinstein.
I’m not going to throw any shade at Cumberbatch, if you want an Oscar this is what most actors have to do to get one. This kind of material doesn’t come an actors way often so you better get it while the getting is good.
Noticed that Jon ran 2, count ’em TWO! ToE ads, including the long running one. He may have been kissing Ben booty on air but we know where his loyalties lie IRL. If his movie can’t win, he wants Eddie to win for sure! Don’t think for one second, HW wasn’t shelling out money to be nice. I bet Conan refused to cave and that was what that little skit with Andy Richter was all about! HW was probably very clear, ask my questions or you don’t get my star. Don’t expect to see him on Colbert.
Most likely Focus paid a shitload of money to run two trailers. Also, Ben has so much more promotion to do yet (Hobbit and the wide release of TIG in the States)
Whenever I see the Oscar’s movie selection I wonder – why would anyone want to win this award so badly? It has nothing to do with art and craft, like most european movie awards. But then why do actors go to Hollywood? Right.
It’s good for one’s career and helps to get better parts and higher salary. Sandra Bullock wouldn’t have gotten Gravity without the Oscar helping to get people to take her seriously and Lupita wouldn’t be getting offered lead roles now without an Oscar win/nomination and the subsequent publicity.
Kkkk, I wasn’t really asking. Everyone knows that the only way to make it big is to do Hollywood.
John Stewart is paid to love him and make him look good.
@icerose
Yes, because if it had been TH it would have been “tru wuv”. LOL!
Ben looks hot here. Navy suits him.
“We weren’t engaged and there was no reason to sort of show off to the world.”
So what you’re saying is the relationship is irrelevant until you put a ring on it? I’m genuinely amused by his naivety. Does he think everyone around him is really that dumb? If you love the girl, you’ll show her off regardless. Fact. My husband is the least sociable person I know but when we were first dating, all he’d want to do was introduce me to people. I’m really just so…confused.
I didn’t think this made any sense either. Strange behavior all around.
He went to plenty of events with Olivia Poulet and Anna James, et al. He wasn’t engaged to them, either.
More like stupidity. He sure is dump sometimes. Or many times of late.
notice the PURSING of the lips while saying this and head tilting
It’s like he’s trying to convince himself more than anyone else.
duly noted:)
In the Vogue article he admitted they had been only dating a “few months.” I think that was a slip up because she is now described as his “long time girlfriend.” It is very difficult to keep lies straight and this is a good example.
He needed maximum impact and if they appeared at LFF as dates then it would negate the shock value of the already planned PR phony engagement the would come before the US tour.
She was pissed that she was wearing a Erdem dress and she was going to walk the red carpet, Ben’s a@@ be damned. Then, to teach him a lesson, she went home. They sound just wonderful don’t they?
I’m just here for the pictures. All of the pictures.
Dissecting his personal life is just too exhausting. I’ll leave that for the more ardent ladies. Just keep giving me pictures and chances to hear him speak. 🙂
“We both went to the London premiere but not together. We weren’t engaged and there was no reason to sort of show off to the world.”
Erm… What? *rubs her eyes hard and stares at the screen again* Did he really say that??
Beginning to suspect that he really is an alien and doesn’t quite get normal human behavior.
I love this. He really is the alien lizard king.
It’s like watching a car crash slowly -really is , seriously I’m despairing that comment is appalling 😓
I think it’s more of a train wreck.
🙁
Let’s say he has some rest and re-group…
Benedict was papped at JFK Airport with Karon.. They are heading home. Doesn’t look like Sophie was with them.. So she popped up for the Premiere and that was it?
This is information the WORLD needs to know:
“It was controlling it and letting the WORLD know but in a quiet and sort of sober and traditional manner.”
“We weren’t engaged and there was no reason to sort of show off to the WORLD.”
OMG Linz, I laughed irl …
Oh, Ben…bless you:)
This is information the WORLD needs to know:
“It was controlling it and letting the WORLD know but in a quiet and sort of sober and traditional manner.”
“We weren’t engaged and there was no reason to sort of show off to the WORLD.”
LOL. Maybe he is an alien and he’s been cloned. Only each clone is getting different scripts from his PR. Makes as much sense as anything else.
Of course BC and SH don’t fly together. They want to keep their relationship private and avoid attention. Oh wait…
hahahaha. i bet she stayed @ her NYC musician’s place hung out in the downtown
LOL. She probably took the last flight out of NY that same night…
It seems so weird to me that they did’t fly back to London together. I really don’t understand True Wuvv. I’m doomed.
whts her prob? she has not got enuf casual leaves? 😉
Maybe she wants to get away as quick as she can so she can miss him? Absence makes the heart grow fonder….I see a lot of absence in their future.
😉
@Lucifer Casual leaves? I can’t breathe, LOL!
oh she is not working!! silly me!!
😛
I think it’s, ah, interesting she wasn’t seen from the after party onwards. He was papped in SoHo on his own, around town the next day on his own (Well, with Karon), and then at JFK… on his own. Did the Academy screening without her, ah, support and the CNN shindig without her presence (and others DID bring their SO’s). So… either she booked it back to London, went to hang out with a friend (*cough*), just flat said “Nope, I’m only here for one red carpet, you pick which one and that’s it,” or her contract only extends to certain events. The last one brought to you by my tinfoil hat, my first class tickets on the conspiracy train, and me being a catty b*tch.
@MissMary – Quid pro quo. Personally, I would take appearance fees with contract renewal in January.
Sophie appeared at the NY premier to shut everyone up. It was a last minute decision and that is why she wore the same dress – they didn’t have time to properly prepare. Not to mention the old switcheroo with the ring. I’ve seen bigger rings on 20 year olds. He must be cheap or they borrowed a ring from someone else.
My spanish teacher had a larger engagement ring. It was 3 1 karat diamonds on one band. It was ridiculous.
The HU-MAN needs to know this information. HU-MAN media outlets will be briefed according to the needs of the world, as determined by what we are reliably informed is your leader, the Weinstein Organization.
/Cumbers out
Awwww, after Lucifer mentioned yesterday that this blog needs my sane point of view… I couldn’t help but post. I’ll try and keep my posts upbeat, but definitely honest. I call things like I see them. I can’t help it.
I read that Ben is off back to London. Here’s wishing him some needed rest and piece of mind in these crazy PR times.
Cut Sophie loose, dude. The strain of that “relationship” is putting a large dent in your career. You can’t be fake, and you can’t sell a relationship that really isn’t a healthy one. And especially, you can’t sell a relationship with a woman you don’t truly love.
And don’t let HW steal your joy. You’re too good for that.
PS – Jon Stewart rocks!
ohh i missed ya. 😉 😀
@GeeMoney: Yessss, all of this. I think that, maybe he bit off more than he could chew, believed assurances that he could handle a Weinstein Oscar push, and is finding out now that he wasn’t ready. I think he’d be less wtf if this was an Oscar push from any other company, really.
i think the holidays will speak a lot for this weirdness. There i said it. If you’re reading this book a nice cottage in Greece and tell them to cuddle up at the seaside. BOOM u got another article kaiser
Uhm…I think he’ll disappear, he’ll have to shoot Sherlock in January and — finger crossed — promotion for — other things.
I don’t think he will disappear. He is still shooting Hollow Crown. (He said it was a 5-6 month shoot) Promotion for The Hobbit. Then the Sherlock Special in January. Somewhere in there is The Lost City of Z.
I really don’t think LCOZ is happening.
I wonder if he will look back at these interviews and this time, maybe sharing this moment w his children, telling them about the moment his career dreams started to take off
and baby that’s when i started to act like a douche-nozzle and alienated my fan-base which made me…
LOL, Lucifer… that was cold…
Linz: I meant that he won’t be as visible…hopefully….:)
I think LCOZ is off the list–last I heard, it’d be changed on IMDB from pre-prod to “in development” again. He’ll be plenty visible though, but I think we’re about to hunker down for a long game if he/HW want the nomination. Sure the wtf reaction isn’t widespread in the mass media but PR is noticing (at least if we go by the weird responses and reactions that seem to come a day or so after people online wondering about certain points, ex being SH’s absence then appearance, etc), so we’ll likely be seeing a lot more sit-down serious interviews, less “TWILTWIPT” soundbites, and we won’t see her unless it’s a premiere.
i do hope he looks back at his behaviour this week, and particularly the slagging off his fans and has a real reflection on it. at some point he will need them back again, and they may not materialize. but also it’s just not cool to be rude to people who have supported you, supported your charities, crowd-funded your company projects, etc.
@MissMary.
(November 13th)
“He is currently shooting “The Hollow Crown” for the BBC and Neal Street Productions, in which he plays Richard III. Next he will shoot “Lost City of Z,” based on David Grann’s novel for director James Gray, where he will play British explorer Percy Fawcett, who set out to discover the City of Z in the Amazon in the 1920s.” (Source – Variety)
I was going by what it says on IMDB about it being back in development. Maybe they scooted things back into place. I haven’t heard about Yellow Bird in a while so maybe he opted out of that one to do LCOZ if things got moved around.
MissMary: that would be perfect…
Even though I think BC is an unbelievably skilled actor, I still think Eddie Redmayne should get the oscar. His portrayal of stephen hawking is uncanny! T-I-G is a good film, but I don’t think it has the WOW factor of Eddie Redmayne’s performance. Plus, Redmayne is so much more humble, I like that.
from the tumblr QnA
massive dickension
“When did people start recognizing you on the streets?
sherlocksteress
When my parents first took me out in the pram and they recognized me as my parents’ son. It was a heady moment. I’m still trying to get my little heady around it.”
???
Put on your detective hats and analyze what you see in this video re: the interaction between Mam’selle and BC and BC and others he is photog-ed with…..
http://www.contactmusic.com/celebrity-videos/the-imitation-game-premiere-benedict-cumberbatch-kiera-knightly-charles-dance-part3_191803
Oh my god, oh my GOD, that is so WEIRD! He’s actually directing her! Telling her to look up and look right, etc. Which makes sense, I guess — yes, she’s been on red carpets, but I don’t think she’s ever experienced anything like that, has she? I kind of get why her face looks so inauthentic now. She looks completely overwhelmed.
This is why you take her to smaller things first, to get used to being in public together. 🙂
@Encumbered Where do I get to see the video of BC and his fiancée… ?? In this link you posted I don’t seem to find anything…
solanaceae – the BC and SH automatons can be seen starting at approx. 01.16 minutes in.
vid doesn’t seem to play on safari. try firefox.
if there was any doubt there is zero chemistry there, watch this video. and then contrast with how he acts with keira and his co-stars. there is almost relief on his face when she leaves.
It didn’t work for me in Firefox, but if you have IE, that worked for me.
I don’t know how anyone puts up with that red-carpet photo-call BS. It is positively barbaric, like a zoo full of mad animals.
Well, it doesn’t work for me, can’t find any video, just plain photos, there’s no link anywhere… Maybe it’s not open to all countries… 🙁
That, or I’m getting really dumb with age… lol
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Given that she has *no* problem posing for pics in the past (she sure hit the mark on the pics from LFF for the paps and media photogs, and in earlier pics from parties and such with official media paps, she knew how to pose and where to look), that’s just *weird*.
What I noticed immediately was the lack of eye contact between he and SH even as he “handed her off” to Karon. I swear they didn’t even look each other in the face at all–unless I missed a glimpse? I don’t know what to make of that. As his SO, I would have wanted at least a reassuring glance as I left the carpet, a wink, a grin, a smile….something??? And he is so overtly lovey-dovey with other cast members. Huh….
Yep. He immediately relaxed when she went off, too. I get it would be a difficult situation, but (if you were actually in love) you’d be a bit more supportive of your extremely overwhelmed fiancée in that moment.
@Encumbered & Sighs –
YES TO ALL. Especially the more supportive part.
Ok I’m so sorry for doing this but that video legit freaked me out. #jawseyes #jawseverything.
It reminded me of a video i saw ages ago of Hiddles and his ex girlfriend at the BFI. Not a fiancé, a girlfriend. He holds her until he goes and then glances back, there is genuine affection there.
http://youtu.be/qOPgZM-yyf8
http://images.starpulse.com/pictures/2011/10/13/previews/Tom%20Hiddleston%20and%20Susannah%20Fielding-LMK-049603.jpg
Two very similar situations, less famous woman who posed and then went off while their blokes did their thing. The difference is f*cking mindblowing. I know who I’d rather be with. Even the second couple on the video are laughing, smiling and checking each other.
(Who are the adorable old couple just before the House of Wax folks appear? Her jazzy hat is everything.)
@lindy. House of Wax folks! Yes, and they reminded me of when I went to Disneyland when I was 10 and the creepy Hall of Presidents thing freaked me out. That’s what BC and SH reminded me of in this video, 2 stiff Disney robot figures.
Thanks for the vid of TH and his date. That was so much better. 😄
Wow Lindy….just…wow….the body language, the closeness…the intimacy. Yes, they were aware of the camera, but they had a little *moment* right there, just the two of them. I don’t know who she is — but wow…
\mind blown
She’s Susannah Fielding, TH’s ex girlfriend, they dated for not even 2 years …
The TH video is cute, he really seems like a charming guy. But I always have to laugh at around 00:20 when he goes off and her face goes from 1000-watt-smile to resting-bitch-face in 0.2 seconds. *lol*
@Lindy79. The older woman is Rosemary Harris, I believe, but I don’t know who the man is. I don’t know what they were doing there; maybe one of them was in the film, too.
To be fair, he’s just coordinating so they would look at the same direction to get a good photo. That’s normal red carpet behavior.
I’m more interested in how his demeanor changes when he’s with Keira or other cast. So much more relaxed. He’s so stiff and wax doll like with SH. (EDIT: what Encumbred said above, ITA)
Also, found a video of Smiley Batch. Well he was with Josh and Malkovich and no enGAGment talk, so of course he’s happy 😀
http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/1101541/benedict-cumberbatch-avoids-doctor-strange-question.jhtml
Oh, I totally agree about the normal red carpet behaviour, and it makes sense that he’s directing her. I just hadn’t ever realized before what it would be like to be in that situation. And I agree that his terse reaction to her obvious discomfort is incredibly strange. I actually feel kind of sorry for her.
I’ll ask you all one question after seeing that video: does it look like this man loves and adores this woman? Objectively, what do you see?
No eye contact, no loving touches, nothing that is comforting or reassuring. He said she is the most incredible woman he’s ever met. Is he acting that way?
You know? Back at LFF premiere, I watched the video of Ben and Keira under the umbrella, and I noticed how it was natural to him to shield her from the rain, it stuck me as something natural. Not a big deal, I know…but it was sweet…
Now, I don’t “ship” Ben and Keira…but I would hope to see something similar or, well, more toward his fiancee…
weirdness
Id be interested to see if we have any lip readers here. I made out a lot of it as him directing her where to look.
I know he doesn’t so much as glance at her but does he even say anything remotely supportive or affectionate to her on there? Or anything that isn’t bloody stage direction?
Coming Soon: Benedict Cumberbatch in “Jaws 5. This time its PR!”
@aly, I agree about Ben and Keira during the LFF red carpet. A loving couple should look like they did. Ben and Keira clearly have genuine affection for one another but I personally don’t see the same mutual affection between BC and SH. i felt uncomfortable watching that video.
@Lindy, I don’t read lips but I’ve seen a lot of human behavior in my life, both personally and professionally and these 2 freak me out a little. They don’t seem to have spent much time together or have much genuine affection between them. #Disneyautomatedrobots
Not a lip reader, either, but I’ve seen clips of him with fans where he’s directing them “Look up” and such during pics and he’s less robotic than that. And he has no knowledge of who the fans are outside of those two seconds for the pic.
Lindy- maybe we’re all just pawns in the making of the Jaws 5 movie. Like a twilight zone documentary.
@Renee, I just posted a somewhat similar comment on the other thread (I can’t keep up haha) about that video. It’s just the entire thing. It all seems so stiff and rehearsed. He visibly relaxed when he joined Keira and the other co-stars. As a ‘good fan’ I should probably say ‘nerves’, but I don’t know. I’ve been thinking a lot about certain anecdotes of friends of BC who got to hang out with him and how he was so very affectionate with them. Like a lot of hugging, just being very lovable etc., in the light of that this all seems so very off. I just think he’d be beaming around the love of his life, esp. in the head over heels in love phase? And that has nothing to do with wanting to keep it private imho. You just can’t hide certain emotions. And it’s also hard to fake them…
@Cate, I can’t keep up with both threads, lol…but, yes, I agree with you. BC has shown much more affection towards others…co-stars, random fans, etc so it’s not his normal behavior to be so…wooden…Some have said maybe she was nervous. But she’s been in front of cameras before and unfortunately I’ve seen her videos so she clearly isn’t shy so I have to conclude that something isn’t right with these two. I would much rather he keep his private life private because I’ve had my fill of the weirdness that is Ben and Sophie. As I’ve said before, I’m also fed up with his public grouchiness. I’m still a fan of his work but I wasnt sorry to see him go home. (Without SH apparently. Whatever.)
Not a glance, or a nod or a little wink to say “you ok?”.
I actually think #Jawseyes is too warm for this. Im being entirely unfair to the shark. At least the shark let people have a bit of fun before he popped up. He even let them sing Show Me the Way to go Home.
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omg that was cold. and WTH is he saying to her constantly. and she never talks.too shy to open her mouth??
Things I wonder when I need sleep… Maybe HW offered “help” with throwing some projects too small for his company towards Sunny March? BC’s been mentioning it in a few interviews when it never really came up before except as a sidenote… Might sweeten the pot for him to “play nice.” Or maybe I’m just adding new cars to the conspiracy train lol.
It’s almost bittersweet that it’s gonna be quiet on the conspiracy train for a while now that he’s back in London. Unless more foot in mouth contradictory interviews come out. 😛 Does your crystal ball say anything?
I think he taped/gave a lot of interviews, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this Cumberonslaught continues.
What tasha_nat said, lol. And also, I’m sure he’ll give some soundbitey things when TIG opens on Friday here in the States–someone will ask him something.
@missmary maybe that was part of Adam’s visit to LA
@felice it won’t be long….The Hobbit is coming up soon.
Can we take a break from Cumbers for a bit and talk about Rosewater? I saw it, and…how the heck is Gael Garcia Bernal not more famous? He’s gorgeous and a fantastic actor! He’s also as politically aware, if not more so, than Benedict. 🙂
I’m looking forward to seeing Rosewater 🙂
“Cough. I’m not going to participate in the Twihard Proofing of this relationship and of Sophie Hunter, but I’ll just say… any woman who can participate in sketchball, NSFW, half-naked music videos for “art” probably has no problem walking a red carpet with her fiancé.”
Right so that’s almost universally agreed on, so why does she look and act like it is a problem?
I keep thinking back to that Bob Dylan post where he lived with the woman for seven years, and as soon as they got hitched her true colours as a golddigger came out.