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Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Not quite Daft Punk no, but looks like Benedict is trying to Get Lucky.
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Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Monday, 10 June 2013
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YOU CAN’T DO THIS TO MENOPE
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I’d quite like to have Benedict Cumberbatch’s arms around my neck and have my hand on his thigh too….](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_s2JKDmufVH7sTVHvPSzcR8oS-BeQ22iQFgF86VPk5rfN36yllY_4JToM8dW3i08zP9_mz3imZF81qi2QBRVw77OtBOYx3_GMeLeQ0zLCi9fAvCE7_dhIZUJSZNCtLlDLBpIj8eNBaCh-kgyxO2jIskGgdb06CLlJe7Mm-7HRx-FbE=s0-d)
Benedict Cumberbatch attending a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace, London
source: londonphile, zimbio
Benedict Cumberbatch as Humphrey Bogart in an Electric Cinema trailer
http://vimeo.com/55092090
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@DES_perate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3b4CoOHSDE
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@DES_perate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3b4CoOHSDE
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6 hour lunch at Fat Duck. And Benedict almost vomming with delight :) Fun day, immense food.
https://twitter.com/JRhodesPianist/status/343053295499239424/photo/1
anindoorkitty:
“… And it’s absolutely true to say this, that between 8:30 and 9:30 on that Sunday night, Benedict Cumberbatch became a star, and it’s the sort of thing that’s only supposed to happen in stories.” - Mark Gatiss on the success of Sherlock….”
Mark discussing Sherlock at the ‘Creating Sherlock’ panel during CrimeFest at the International Crime Fiction Convention June 1, 2013.
News on Burlesque Fairytales
BURLESQUE FAIRYTALES - behind the scenes
”We’re releasing the film internationally via streaming first, followed by download so online with additional content.” (x)
”We’re releasing the film internationally via streaming first, followed by download so online with additional content.” (x)
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
JJ Abrams swooning over Cumberbatch again in a new interview…
“Benedict Cumberbatch is truly one of the greatest actors I’ve ever seen. And my favorite thing about him in this movie is that instead of his bad guy being adorned and wearing some crazy mask and costume and hair… he is just a simple man standing in a black shirt and black pants, just a common man… and his performance is so powerful in it’s simplicity… and that to me was an incredibly exciting thing to see: how little he needed to be that powerful.”(Source: cobra.be)
I really liked this article by vulture.com, lots of interesting tidbits.
Not only did Cumberbatch have to follow an animal act, but Letterman, who began by referring to Star Trek as Star Wars, asked his guest—a veteran of twenty movies, including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and War Horse—if he was new to major motion pictures. (The actor, being the polite, Harrow-educated Brit that he is, jumped in to save his host: “This major? Yes!”) I tell Cumberbatch that, given Letterman’s cluelessness, I was surprised there weren’t the usual efforts to wring a laugh from his name.
“Well, since he couldn’t even say it,” says the actor. “At one point, before I came on, he announced me as ‘Benedict Cumber… ,’ and his voice sort of trailed off. My friends said, ‘What the fuck was that? It was like his batteries ran out.’ But that’s the sort of thing that’s been happening here, where I’m not as well known,” he continues. “It’s strange to be 36 and still explaining the weirdness of my name.”
“Well, since he couldn’t even say it,” says the actor. “At one point, before I came on, he announced me as ‘Benedict Cumber… ,’ and his voice sort of trailed off. My friends said, ‘What the fuck was that? It was like his batteries ran out.’ But that’s the sort of thing that’s been happening here, where I’m not as well known,” he continues. “It’s strange to be 36 and still explaining the weirdness of my name.”
Little Favour
At 4 am London time, B and the Little Favour gang are still shooting.
source: londonphile
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More STID reviews, collected by the lovely Cumbertrekky. http://cumbertrekky.tumblr.com/tagged/stidreviews](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sh3HWCg8yDOpn8rAyWYP__6cxr1-iSUov3sREwpLxm-I9gN-o6y39ObIjEdWLOB5cDsHh7uvWsFCVaxAfiOH9DzMSJpH9td1x9u-cZi7H53xfjlIExoy-1lO-sfyinCEYnmMbb5WOE16YGn7hPcIFMY7zRoAOksrV2zlnqRoEYJR8=s0-d)
Mr. Cumberbatch and I hard at it tonight. Great fun, good work, top man.
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Tuesday, 28 May 2013
'Merlin' star Rupert Young dishes on his fellow knights
Colin Morgan, who played Merlin
"One of the most hardworking, welcoming people I've ever met. I think one of the best actors I've ever worked with. I would say that the reason the show is as successful--a major part of that is because of him. He was always on there and welcomed everyone to the set even if they're there for one scene or for a few years," Young said. "And he would just always give you so much. If you had a scene with Colin you would be better, I think. He's genuinely one of the nicest people. He loves acting so much and so committed. He gave his life over for the eight months we filmed. He's someone I am in awe of. I'd like to be a bit more like him."
double barrel @double_barrel1
Countdown has begun to the official release of BURLESQUE FAIRYTALES - watch this space! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Double-barrel-productions/116203225191753 … pic.twitter.com/p0stRf1o5w
Monday, 27 May 2013
Way Back When: Benedict Cumberbatch
‘Fields of Gold’
Benedict Cumberbatch’s first role was in the TV movie ‘Fields of Gold,’ which explored the effects of genetically modified crops and big pharmaceutical companies — you know, stuff that’s really bad for you. In it, Cumberbatch plays Jeremy, a reporter:
‘Tipping the Velvet’
Up next was ‘Tipping the Velvet,’ a BBC miniseries about a lesbian love affair between a woman named Kitty Butler, who masqueraded as a male performer, and her lover, Nan Astley. Cumberbatch appears in the first episode, and you can watch all of his scenes below. Don’t worry, he only gets just under three minutes of screen time:
‘Silent Witness’
The BBC series ‘Silent Witness’ has been on the air since 1996, making it the British answer to ‘CSI’ or something. Cumberbatch plays forensic student Warren Reid in this two-parter about a body found decomposing in the wall of an old factory building, and a simultaneous break-in on the school campus resulting in the theft of drugs.
‘Cambridge Spies’
In 2003, Cumberbatch starred as Edward Hand in the second episode of the miniseries ‘Cambridge Spies.’ Yes, it was on the BBC — are you sensing a pattern here? The show takes place in 1934, when four Cambridge University men are recruited as spies for Russia. Scandal!
‘Fortysomething’
Cumberbatch plays the son of Hugh Laurie in this miniseries, about a 40-something doctor who lives with his wife and three sex-obsessed sons. Cumberbatch plays sex-obsessed son Rory, who has sex-obsessed problems or something.
‘Hawking’
In 2004, Cumberbatch had the distinction of playing renowned British theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant people who has ever lived. The film follows Hawking on his quest for answers to the mysteries of the universe. Hawking was diagnosed with a degenerative disease, the first symptoms of which occurred when he was 21. We’ll never know what his real voice sounds like because the disease left him unable to speak, and he now does so with the aid of a computerized voice — but Cumberbatch helps us imagine:
‘Atonement’
Cumberbatch plays a wealthy gentleman who’s made his fortune in the chocolate business in Joe Wright’s ‘Atonement.’ Yeah, the clip below is cute and all while he’s describing his favorite drink, a “choctail,” but please be advised that Cumberbatch is a total creeper in this movie. Sort of like Willy Wonka for British period drama:
‘The Other Boleyn Girl’
In 2008, Cumberbatch starred as William Carey in ‘The Other Boleyn Girl,’ a movie that totally botches history — for fun! See, Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman) was supposed to be offered as the new mistress to King Henry VIII, but she messed it up and was sent away to learn some ladylike manners in France; meanwhile, her family offers up her sister Mary (Scarlett Johansson) instead. But that’s not all! Mary’s own husband (Cumberbatch) is totally down with it because who doesn’t want to live in a castle?! When Mary has the king’s baby, Anne comes back and steals the king away, leaving Mary, her simple husband and her bastard son to move back to the country.
source: screencrush.com
Saturday, 25 May 2013
Nice to see Third Star get a mention. Anyone who has not seen this movie must watch it immediately!! Although make sure you have plenty of tissues at the ready, waterworks are pretty much guaranteed.
An absolutely crazy fangirling panegyric piece about Benedict Cumberbatch in a Russian magazine. Translation by Scimommy. Alexey Vasiliev. About new stars. Benedict Cumberbatch
It is a widely held misconception that the acting craft can be learned. It serves to console a broad segment of people attempting the profession, and is also financially profitable for makers of films and TV series – as long as it is physically impossible for the large number of films and TV series currently produced to all star Benedict Cumberbatch. When in “The Hound of Baskerville” he delivers the phrase, not the most dramatic one in the world, “I have no friends”, he spurts out the word “friends” like a rabbit suffering from hay fever. Watson is mortally offended, but at that same moment we all wish for no friends as well. Don’t try to rehearse this in front of the mirror: you won’t succeed. To be able to do this, you need that blunt, wide, prominent rabbit nose that leads to the unyielding, lazy face: the mouth skewed down toward the neck, where the slightest dissatisfaction forms a triple chin, and the flying apart eyebrows, under which diamonds of gray-gray-blue eyes hide tiny dots of pupils. (How would you solve the problem without these eyes if, as did Cumberbatch in “Third star”, you got the role of a man on morphine? Would you have had lights flashed at you until you went blind? But for brown eyes that would be useless.)
Cumberbatch is a great actor because you can follow the activity on his face with unflagging interest until you keel over. This is a nature’s gift. Then there is the superior body language and noble deportment of a grandson of a prominent British Army officer active in two World Wars (precisely the capacity in which the meticulous Spielberg used Cumberbatch in “War Horse”, a film about World War I). Now, certainly, there are other actors, those who train and toil, gain weight and glue on fake noses, and who do get some love, money, and even sometimes Oscars, but to have a face that can be read like a hefty detective novel or contemplated the way the Japanese contemplate cherry blossoms – that one can only be born with. Directors happily integrate that face into scenes of a universal scale. In “Third Star” his face emerges in the starry sky without disturbing its harmony like it had always been there. In the film’s conclusion Cumberbatch’s character accepts death of his own free will, going under water with the facial expression of a babe unborn – this is how we see embryos in test tubes. In the prologue of “Sherlock” Watson complains to his therapist: “Nothing happens to me”, and then across the backdrop of the London panorama – voila! – Cumberbatch’s face appears – and we immediately get it: “Something is about to happen – something huge!” In “Star Trek Into Darkness” he gazes through the windshield of a helicopter in flames – surely this is how God gazed at the Earth while creating volcanoes.
Easily blending into the landscape, that face itself can become a landscape with a changing weather and an interplay of light and shade. In the prologue of “Stuart: A Life Backwards”, Cumberbatch’s character is behind the wheel, listening to an audiotape with the voice of a deceased friend – an alcoholic sociopath (Tom Hardy). In the span of half a minute he covers a whole octave, all four seasons-worth of emotions, from an uncontrollable smile of a person hearing a beloved friend’s “Hello”, to eyes dripping with tears. People who have questions about Cumberbatch’s acting technique can be directed straight to that scene. “Golden”, says a fly-by American girl about his Luke behind his back after he returns from working as a policeman in Malaysia for a bit of a life pause in his English home village, in an adaptation of Agatha Christy’s novel “Murder Is Easy”. “You’re just too nice for this world”, tells him Anna Chancellor who plays his mother in the incomparable six-part Hugh Laurie comedy “Fortysomething”. In that scene Cumberbatch’s hair is hidden under a thick knit cap that resembles a condom. It’s remarkable – watching his STID colleague Chris Pine you constantly think how unlucky the guy is: he could have been very handsome if not for his too high forehead. Yet Cumberbatch’s high forehead in the “condom” only makes him more handsome. Then again, the streaked with highlights fringe of a British intelligence officer issue 1973 in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” enhances his looks as well. And Shelock’s curls, and Alexander’s glasses in “Stuart”, and the hat the hero dying of sarcoma in “Third Star”… Everything suits him. Because it is impossible to disfigure the sea or the sky.
In “Sherlock” Cumberbatch transforms the world for which he is too nice into a series of exaggerated, clichéd facial expressions. Here is how one smiles while offering a coffee (to check whether the sugar contains a drug). Here is the look to wear while asking to be let into the door (to search an apartment). The means of facial expression are as well worn as those of words. Cumberbatch is an actor, and he shows us that people by and large are living others’ lives using traditional actor tools – borrowed facial expressions. This is what he makes a mockery of. Where did you learn this ingratiating look, that polite smile – from your mother, the electrician, or the TV presenter? In this case facial expressions are a symbol. Behind this wicked parody of the shared facial vocabulary he hides a question for everyone: where are you yourself? Maybe you should reassess and realize yourself as Sherlock realized himself in creating a previously non-existent profession – that of a consulting detective. (In “Third Star” Cumberbatch delivered the reverse story, a deafening tragedy of not getting to realize yourself.)
If you don’t feel sorry for yourself, feel sorry for God who created you precisely for – what? Before going into acting, not having the looks or even the name equivalent of our hero’s looks and name, ask yourself that question; it can lead you to yourself and therefore to freedom and truth. Freedom and truth are brilliant! But leave the screen to Cumberbatch – this is what he was born for.
source: cumberbatchrus
Thursday, 23 May 2013
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