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Benedict Cumberbatch was held back by his privileged background, his teacher says
Martin Tyrell, who first spotted his the actor's star quality as a 13-year-old at the £34,590-a-year school, said Cumberbatch was held back by his education, since it limited the range of potential roles he could expect to play.
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Benedict Cumberbatch thinks having a kid is his wife’s greatest achievement
Quizzed about whether he was looking forward to his son Christopher growing up and watching his films, Benedict replied, ‘He’s very small…’
‘Is being a dad your proudest achievement?’, Alison probed.
He replied: ‘It’s probably Sophie’s. I’m expecting a second child now… I’m still proving myself as a father.’
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Benedict Cumberbatch thinks individuals with autism are ‘very upsetting’ and ‘carried through life’; compares them to Frankenstein’s monster
BC: (talking about the [Frankenstein] Creature’s origin) It’s basically being a man child, it’s being a man infant. And then, psychologically, Danny and Nick Dear, who’s adapted the Mary Shelley novel, into a brilliant 2 ½ hour play version of it, he, they both have autistic sons. So we went to two extraordinary schools and met some high spectrum autistic kids. And it was very, very humbling and amazing and very upsetting, but very, very extraordinary as well, and inspiring. And especially the people looking after them, and these amazing life forces, but just formed with…*sigh* um, socially just things that are outside of everyday. You know, there are certain barriers that aren’t there because of the arrested development that… there was a 17 year old that had the mental age of, I think, an 18 month old. I mean, it was…
GN: Wow
BC: It’s…it’s…it’s really really extraordinary and very upsetting. And uh, it was important for them to realize that the Creature in their story was not their… the monster of old… the monster of the gothic horror stories. He’s very much an innocent. He’s very much someone who is carried through life, as someone who is so different, not only because of his appearance, but because of these behaviorial tics, which are very autistic, um, both in his understanding of the world, psychologically and emotionally, but also physically as well, how that manifests later in his body. And so that was the major part of the preparation.
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Benedict Cumberbatch thinks women’s careers are actually improved by having children
"It adds - it never takes away," says the 40-year-old actor, who became a parent for the first time last year, with the birth of his son, Christopher. "Lots of people, especially women, get told, 'Oh you know, it's going to really affect your career', and it does, but for the better in most cases that I know.
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all jokes aside benedict cumberbatch its racist and classist and also sees autistic people as subhuman so fuck him
Sources pls
sources!
racism: beaniebag’s take on the August 2011 riots ignited over racial and economic inequality when a black man was shot by police: “I’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road,” he says. “But those eejits saying they’re doing it for socio-political reasons? Fuck off, no you’re not, you’re on a jolly and you’re getting away with it. It makes me want to belt them, make them lame for a bit so they’re dependent on other people’s mercy…” (technically this one is racist, classist, AND ableist, but we’ll move on)
bramblepatch considers his roles as slave-owners to be “a sort of apology” for his entire family fortune being built on the slave trade…which is all well and good except he got paid millions of dollars for those roles. right. granted, it can only be confirmed he feels that way about his abolitionist slave-owning character, but literally anyone could have played that role?? pretty sure he didn’t seek it out specifically as a form of atonement for hundreds of years of his family working slaves literally to death.
and let’s not forget he still defends his role as khan in star trek: into darkness, which…well, given that khan (in the original context) was a character who was genetically engineered with all the best genes on Earth and the intentional choosing of a man of color for that role was essentially a fuck-you to white supremacist/white-as-default notions, it’s definitely a sore spot and worth consideration in the context of benchmarktest computersmash’s family owning black slaves
classism: revisiting the first link on racism, actually, for when bendytoot said “But my sympathy is with the people who do know what they’re talking about, who have been brought up on estates and live morally decent, contributing lives and who have seen opportunists destroying all their work.“
breadedbun talking about the Edwardian period: “There was a social structure that had to be adhered to… Everyone was held in their place, but what was honourable about it was that there was a duty of care from the top down.” (bonus: the statement he makes below this one in the linked article is fat-shaming)
ableism: bindlesnoot comparing autistic people to frankenstein’s monster because they are, essentially, ”adult children” living in arrested development; there’s far, far more at the link as well
brimbledip becoming angry when people think certain popular characters he plays might be autistic (notably Sherlock and Alan Turing–who btw was an actual historical gay/bi man and that was all but erased and twisted in the movie about him :/)– because it offers ”false hope”
this is by no means an exhaustive list, but there’re some sources for you
Benedict Cumberbatch thinks ‘posh-bashing’ is ‘so dumb,’ makes him want to move to America
"[I'm] castigated as a moaning, rich public school b**tard, complaining about only getting posh roles."
He added: "So domestic, and so dumb. It makes me think I want to go to America."
Cumberbatch has previously complained about being typecast because of his upbringing.
"Being a posh actor in England, you can't escape class-typing, from whatever side you look at it," he said last year.
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Benedict Cumberbatch was jealous of Jonny Lee Miller also playing Sherlock, and implied Miller only took the role for the money
From a Shortlist interview:
What do you make of the new US modern Sherlock Holmes adaptation, Elementary?
Jonny [Lee Miller] asked me if I was all right with him doing it. I said, “What are the similarities?” And he went, “Well it’s modern...” I went, “Oh.” Then he said, “Lucy Liu’s going to play Joan Watson...” And I went, “Oh.” I got hold of the pilot script just to check it out. I don’t know, we’ll see. I think there’s room for us both to coexist. I don’t feel threatened by it and I wish him the best, which is as diplomatic as I can be.
It’s a strange position to be in...
It’s very odd. I did say, “Well, I’d prefer you didn’t do it but you’ve got a kid to feed, a nice house in LA and a wife to keep in good clothes.” When you get used to a certain standard of living and they waft a pay cheque at you, what are you going to do? I think Jonny was like, “Mate, I’ve got the f*cking mountain to climb here [to reach the acclaim of Sherlock], you’ve got nothing to fear.” I wish him the best of luck, but I’m a bit cynical about why they’ve chosen to do it and why they cast him.
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Benedict Cumberbatch wants to ‘belt’ poor people who don’t protest the way he thinks they should
“I’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road. But those eejits saying they’re doing it for socio-political reasons? Fuck off, no you’re not, you’re on a jolly and you’re getting away with it. It makes me want to belt them, make them lame for a bit so they’re dependent on other people’s mercy… It’s very hard for me to talk about it, because I came from an incredibly privileged bubble so the minute I open my mouth I can sense the comeback of, ‘What the fuck do you know?’ And that’s fair. But my sympathy is with the people who do know what they’re talking about, who have been brought up on estates and live morally decent, contributing lives and who have seen opportunists destroying all their work.”
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Benedict Cumberbatch’s family wealth was obtained through slave labor
[Cleland Plantation] was home to a community of disenfranchised men, women and children who — in one of history’s most shameful passages — were treated as property, and often worked to death, in service of the British Empire.
‘I sometimes think about what went on here, and it brings a tear to my eye,’ says Mr Tempro. ‘Thinking of the struggles of the people who occupied the place can be very emotional.’
Intriguingly, almost every single one of the brutal slave masters who held sway here boasted the same, highly-distinctive surname: Cumberbatch. ...
Cumberbatch has also revealed that his mother, the actress Wanda Ventham, had urged him not to use his real surname professionally, in case it made him a target for reparation claims by the descendants of slaves.
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Benedict Cumberbatch thinks England’s Victorian class system was 'honorable’
On why he thinks Downton Abbey was “atrocious”:
"You rarely see a piece about this class of people that's this accurate, funny and pointed. We're not making some clichéd comment, 'Oh, isn't it awful the way there's this upstairs-downstairs divide'...
Everyone was held in their place, but what was honourable about it was that there was a duty of care from the top down.”
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Benedict Cumberbatch is a dick.
He’s a privileged asshole. And this blog will be documenting why. I’ll be starting off with older news, the kind of stuff that made me realize what a dick he actually is, and hopefully following along as he spends interview after interview revealing his dickishness. Enjoy.
