I remember when Twitter first started happening but there were only a few celebrities tweeting on a regular basis. I personally think Lindsay Lohan’s early days on Twitter probably did more harm than good for the cause of social media, but after a few years, everybody joined Twitter, celebrity or not. In fact, these days it’s actually sort of weird when a celebrity isn’t on social media at all. Even if you don’t want the no-filter engagement with fans or the general public, many public figures do find social media – Twitter especially – useful in promoting their charitable and professional work. I mean, even Leonardo DiCaprio is on Twitter! He just tweets about charity stuff, environmental stuff and film stuff. But Benedict Cumberbatch is no Leo DiCaprio. Benedict finds social media “ultimately very toxic,” thank you very much. From People:

His thoughts on social media: “I can’t get involved in social media because as they know, it’d be a disaster. I can’t tweet to save my life. I’d go over my character limits and never make any sense. It would just consume me and I find that whole thing ultimately very toxic. I’d much rather spend my energy doing what brought me to their attention in the first place, which is my work.”

Whether he dreams in character: “It’s usually, like a lot of actors, nightmares after the event, rather than during. It’s the way that brains work — it’s incredible, isn’t it? But you just get haunted by a moment, and suddenly you’re back playing a character that you dropped months or years [ago], and then you’re often onstage and often without a vital prop and sometimes without any clothes whatsoever and you can’t remember your lines. You’re looking at characters that are really familiar and the situation is half familiar, but suddenly you’re in a real room and the dream takes real odd turns, I don’t know. It’s so funny in the way we get haunted by our work as actors, I know I’m not alone in that. The naked thing, or running out or just completely forgetting what you’re saying is very fiercely real.”

[From People]

To be fair, considering his word-salad answers to simple questions like “are you enjoying fatherhood?” maybe Twitter is NOT for him. It would be such a chore for him to translate his alien-otter dialect into what humans call “tweets.” Now I’m picturing him tweeting sh-t like “the smooth is a good mum #motherofotters” and “My loyal, faithful and trusty Sophie understands my journey #hergreatestachievement.” He probably would be good at Instagram though.

(Seriously though, can we make #motherofotters into a thing?)

Meanwhile, Bendy is going to be on this weekend’s episode of The Graham Norton Show. Apparently, he chats about going to Comic-Con – “It is terrifying. They announce you like God is about to arrive, and you come through all the smoke and lights and booming soundtrack and just say, ‘hello.’ You feel like a tiny speck in this massive arena” – and working in Nepal and more. Eddie Redmayne is also a guest on the same episode. As is… LeAnn Rimes. Oh, God.

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