Nov 11, 2022
There are rumors that after Tom has said too much about the filming of the movie, he is now allowed to give interviews only when accompanied by a nanny Benedict, so that he has time to close his chatty mouth.
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There are rumors that after Tom has said too much about the filming of the movie, he is now allowed to give interviews only when accompanied by a nanny Benedict, so that he has time to close his chatty mouth.
Adorkable
From interviews for The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, December 2013
And this was the one I’d originally set about to post today, but my old blog post of this only had static photos, so wasn’t much help for analysis. A little digging on Google Images netted these - I’m not sure who actually made them to begin with though. And as usual, Martin was asked a fairly innocuous question about how they got along and assumed they were asking about sex. He does this. A lot.
Again, tagging @welovethebeekeeper (who does this for a living) for her take.
Through the years
Yup
-Interviewer: name?
-Ben: Benedict Cumberbatch..yeah..b, a, t, c, h. Cumberbatch
-Interviewer: So you have your curriculum?
-Benedict: oh yes! Here you go
-Interviewer: but there’s no picture in it
-Benedict: shut! Hummm no problem... I can always can count with Tumblr... They have the best pictures of me always, ALWAYS
Cumberbatch sees some of that same prejudice today in Hollywood, a subject he’s discussed at length with his friend Zachary Quinto (the two met on the set of Star Trek Into Darkness). “I think if you’re going to sell yourself as a leading man in Hollywood,” he says, “to say ‘I’m gay,’ sadly, is still a huge obstacle. We all know actors who are [gay] who don’t want to talk about it or bring it up, or who deny it. I don’t really know what they do to deal with it.”
Benedict Cumberbatch, OUT Magazine interview, October 2014
Benedict on being a leading man in Hollywood - you can’t get the parts if you’re perceived as gay.
While there was experimentation [at Brambletye], it had never occurred to me as Oh, this is that. It was just boys and their penises, the same way with girls and vaginas and boobs. It wasn’t out of a desire.
Benedict Cumberbatch, OUT Magazine, October 2014
This is that. Not ‘that was that’, or ‘that’s what that is’, ‘that’s what’s going on’ or even ‘that’s what they’re doing’... This.
“The same way with girls and vaginas and boobs.” Not to say there isn’t any experimentation, but where are you extrapolating that from, Ben?