Benedict Cumberbatch News

[Carol the Dabbler]

3 hours ago, Hikari said:

We say 'purse' for 'handbag,and 'wallet' for the small receptacle that holds our money.

We may also say handbag or pocketbook, though I think those terms are a bit dated.  Purse does seem to be the generic term nowadays.

A smaller item made primarily to hold paper money I would call a billfold.  If it's also got a pocket for coins, I might call it a wallet, but I would generally expect a wallet to also have places for photos, credit cards, etc.  To me, a wallet is fatter than a billfold, and more likely to be carried by a man

Then there is the coin purse, an even smaller item made strictly for holding coins.  A coin purse, like a billfold/wallet can be carried either in one's pocket or in one's purse.

[HerlockSholmes]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2018/04/28/patrick-melrose-first-look-reviewbenedict-cumberbatch-magnificent/amp/

[Pseudonym]

Says you have to register to read it. What's the gist, that it's good?

[HerlockSholmes]

Oops. Sorry Pseudonym I didn’t notice that when I posted it. You  have to sign up to The Telegraph. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Can you give us a brief synopsis?

[HerlockSholmes]

Sorry Carol/Pseudonym,

My last post wasn’t very clear. I haven’t signed up. I can’t see the full post either. I just assumed that everyone would be able to read the full post if they wanted to.

ill pay more attention next time👍

[Hikari]

A fun and loosey-goosey interview with Ben for Avengers.  He spoofs some of his castmates and seems to have a good time.  Not to be outdone by his mate Freeman, he drops an F bomb . .no C***s though.

 

[Sheerluck]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/i-had-to-posh-up-for-latest-role-says-cumberbatch-38l7jcvrw

[Hikari]

9 minutes ago, Sheerluck said:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/i-had-to-posh-up-for-latest-role-says-cumberbatch-38l7jcvrw

Thanks for the link, Sheerluck.  With apologies to the London Times, I repost the article on behalf of readers who don't feel like going through the rigamarole of registering for an account just to get a princely 2 articles a month free.  Here is one of mine for the benefit of all.  Enjoy.  My favorite bits are in bold.

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As an Old Harrovian who counts Richard III as a distant cousin, Benedict Cumberbatch gives the impression of inhabiting the narrow end of the class pyramid.

Not so, the actor has said in an interview in which he described having to “posh up” for his latest role as an upper-class drug addict and alcoholic.

In a testimony to the infinite gradations at the top of the British class system, in which everyone but the Queen must protest that there is someone posher than themselves, Cumberbatch said that the title character in the television series Patrick Melrose was far loftier than a son of two actors.

“He’s properly posh,” he told Radio Times. “I know everyone goes on about the posh thing with me — but despite looking it, I am not that class. That class is landed gentry. I had to posh up for this.”

He drew his inspiration for the character by getting to know Edward St Aubyn, whose semi-autobiographical books were the basis of the five-part television drama. The author was born to a couple who owned homes in Britain and France and who sent him to Westminster School in London. 

Cumberbatch said that people might confuse him for being posher than he was because he had a name that sounded like a National Trust property. “Have you been to the tea shop at Benedict Cumberbatch? Fabulous cream teas. And a beautiful shell grotto!”

Cumberbatch, 41, has previously described himself as middle class. In an interview with Vanity Fair last month he said that capturing Melrose’s haughty attitude and vocal mannerisms did not come easily. “I went to a very posh public school, second to Eton, yet I had only one friend from the landed gentry,” he told the magazine. “I’ve been trying to knock the corners off my accent ever since I left Harrow.”

Dominic Dromgoole, a former artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe, prompted Cumberbatch to defend his schooling in 2013 when he said that there was a “real worry” that acting was becoming the preserve of privately educated people. The actor responded that it was a false trend.

“People have tried to pull together a pattern because Tom Hiddleston, Eddie Redmayne, Damian Lewis and I were all privately educated,” he said. “But James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Tom Hardy weren’t and they’re equally talented. It’s just lazy to try and create a private-school elite. I’m definitely middle class, I think. I know others would argue, but I’m not upper class. Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re royalty.”

He added: “OK, maybe I’m upper-middle class.”

[Sheerluck]

Thanks Hikari, I should have done that.

[Hikari]

5 minutes ago, Sheerluck said:

Thanks Hikari, I should have done that.

No worries.  I wasn't complaining.  I was breaking the rules, actually.  The London Times would take a dim view of me if they knew.  So we won't tell them, shall we? 

Since I only get one more free article this month (and May is long) I put it here so I can enjoy it again later, along with the rest of the forum.

[Sheerluck]

1 minute ago, Hikari said:

No worries.  I wasn't complaining.  I was breaking the rules, actually.  The London Times would take a dim view of me if they knew.  So we won't tell them, shall we? 

Since I only get one more free article this month (and May is long) I put it here so I can enjoy it again later, along with the rest of the forum.

I'm a subscriber so I don't think about it.

[J.P.]

As long as it lasts…

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

As long as you don’t have a US ip it might work for a bit.

[HerlockSholmes]

https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2018/may/16/benedict-cumberbatch-to-play-vote-leave-dominic-cummings-channel-4-brexit-drama

[Hikari]

23 minutes ago, HerlockSholmes said:

https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2018/may/16/benedict-cumberbatch-to-play-vote-leave-dominic-cummings-channel-4-brexit-drama

BC adds another real person to his resume of Real People He Has Portrayed Onscreen, but I feel this particular one is going to lack the edge-of-one's seat drama provided by Alan Turing, Richard the Third or even Julian Assange.  Not exactly a scintillating post-Sherlock career so far, IMO. 

[Sheerluck]

Bit soon for a Brexit drama yet I think. This will probably be as well received as a shit lolly.

[HerlockSholmes]

Can’t see people stampeding to the cinema for that one?

[Pseudonym]

It's Channel 4, so TV drama I think. Doubt I'll be tuning in though. 

[Pseudonym]

2 hours ago, Sheerluck said:

This will probably be as well received as a shit lolly.

Yum!

[J.P.]

How is he able to make all those projects? I feel exhausted just looking at it.
http://rox712.tumblr.com/post/173981868596/benadlct-benedict-cumberbatch-over-the-years-x

[Hikari]

 

8 minutes ago, J.P. said:

How is he able to make all those projects? I feel exhausted just looking at it.
http://rox712.tumblr.com/post/173981868596/benadlct-benedict-cumberbatch-over-the-years-x

I diagnose one of the following:

A long-standing usage of the Seven-Percent Solution

Super blood (Khan's)

He doesn't actually sleep like a normal human--he spends about 2 hours a day in a hyperbaric chamber, and he can do that in his dressing room between takes.

[Arcadia]

Well, let's see ... they act for a few minutes, then wait around for the lighting to be reset. Then act a few minutes, then wait around waiting for makeup to be redone. Then act a few minutes, then wait around for..... It must be exhausting.....

[Hikari]

29 minutes ago, Arcadia said:

Well, let's see ... they act for a few minutes, then wait around for the lighting to be reset. Then act a few minutes, then wait around waiting for makeup to be redone. Then act a few minutes, then wait around for..... It must be exhausting.....

Yep.  Waiting around on-call constantly is not the same as having actual 'free time'.  I hate waiting around in doctor's offices, in lines at the post office, etc.  A film/TV actor's life seems to consist of maybe 20% actually 'acting' . . 20% 'getting ready'--hair/makeup/costume, usually at ungodly hours . .and 60% just waiting around.   You may have to report at 5am for hair and makeup to make an on-set call at 7am . . .and they don't actually need you on camera til 11am.  Then you break for lunch and wait around some more in full costume for another 20 or 30 minutes' worth of intensive takes  . .which have to be reshot due to a technical problem . . and 14 hours later you finally get to fall into bed . . up at 4am and it starts all over again.  I couldn't stand it.  I get the appeal of live theatre, which is exhausting in a different way, because it's continuously intensive for 3-4 hours with very few breaks, and no do-overs if you muff it, you just have to keep going.  But once you're 'on' you get to stay 'on' for the duration--and generally you do not have to report to the theatre until 4 . . .PM.

P.S. to add--I think the stress of waiting around coupled with the boredom is why so many actors are chain-smokers.  Hopefully Ben's packed up since the bambinos. 

[J.P.]

And not to forget: all those promotion tours, jetlag, strange food you have to eat before the camera, jokes you have to laugh at, making yourself into an idiot on  ridiculous late night shows, and the endless row of questions, one more dumb than the other, from journos who still ask him about the name of his female fandom…