Benedict Cumberbatch News

[Carol the Dabbler]

Seventeenth cousins, wasn't it?  Makes me wonder who my seventeenth cousins might be!

 

[Boton]

Seventeenth cousins, wasn't it?  Makes me wonder who my seventeenth cousins might be!

 

What is that statistic about some crazy percentage of the population is related to Ghengis Khan?  Get far enough down the line, and you're related to everyone.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

 

Seventeenth cousins, wasn't it?  Makes me wonder who my seventeenth cousins might be!

 

What is that statistic about some crazy percentage of the population is related to Ghengis Khan?  Get far enough down the line, and you're related to everyone.

 

 

According to a Google search, it's approximately .5% of the worlds's population or 16 million men as of 2010 (number is probably higher now) based on y-chromosome research so ignoring any of us ladies who could potentially be related.

 

And with math approximation, if Benedict and Alan Turing are 17th cousins their mutual great (times a few) grand parents date back to around 1500 based on Benedict's 5 generation family tree on wikipedia (and the limited information there).

[Carol the Dabbler]

You're close, more like 1400.  According to a Radio Times article:
 

... Cumberbatch ... is distantly related to Turing whom he portrays in the biopic....
 
The actor and scientist are 17th cousins, both related to John Beaufort, the first Earl of Somerset, according to family history website Ancestry.
 
The claim is traced back through both their paternal lines, linking them to Beaufort who was born around 1373 and was himself an ancestor of Henry VII.

What's really weird is, they're both in the same generation, precisely 17th cousins -- no "once removed" or anything.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I think Benedict's side has more age distance between father and son in several generations as Alan Turing is old enough to have been Timothy's father if they had been in a more direct blood line.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Presumably.  My family's like that, long generations.

 

[Inge l-w]

So, both Turing and Benedict are of the House of York, because it was through the Earl that Benedict was related to Richard III.

[Van Buren Supernova]

According to a Google search, it's approximately .5% of the worlds's population or 16 million men as of 2010 (number is probably higher now) based on y-chromosome research so ignoring any of us ladies who could potentially be related.

 

And with math approximation, if Benedict and Alan Turing are 17th cousins their mutual great (times a few) grand parents date back to around 1500 based on Benedict's 5 generation family tree on wikipedia (and the limited information there).

 

 

You're close, more like 1400.  According to a Radio Times article:

 

... Cumberbatch ... is distantly related to Turing whom he portrays in the biopic....

 

The actor and scientist are 17th cousins, both related to John Beaufort, the first Earl of Somerset, according to family history website Ancestry.

 

The claim is traced back through both their paternal lines, linking them to Beaufort who was born around 1373 and was himself an ancestor of Henry VII.

What's really weird is, they're both in the same generation, precisely 17th cousins -- no "once removed" or anything.

 

 

 

Yes seventeenth cousin. That 's what I know, that's all I know.

Apparently you guys know much more! :lol: :lol: :lol:

[sittything]

Dang! Where did I hear/read this: Ben was using dental somethings for Turing. He has definitely his cheeks filled for Black Mass. Maybe he did something similar for Sherlock? Ah, what a pity I was such a newbie at the Con. I would have much better questions now. I think I need a new Sherlocked event and a lottery win. ^_^

 

Wah?!  He had his cheeks filled?!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Yes seventeenth cousin. That 's what I know, that's all I know.

Apparently you guys know much more! :lol: :lol: :lol:

We know Google!  ;)

 

Wah?!  He had his cheeks filled?!

Relax, it's neither painful nor permanent!  Apparently they just stick these little soft pads into your mouth, between your teeth and your cheeks.  God knows how a person is supposed to talk like that, though!

 

Added:  It would seem that the pads are actually glued to the outside of one's face -- good news for talking!  (See my next post.)

 

[Arcadia]

I imagine it's rather similar to speaking with tongue in cheek.

 

(Sorry, couldn't resist! )

[Inge l-w]

As long as it doesn't lead to any added consonants in words where they don't belong, flightless birds notwithstanding!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Hmm, it seems my assumptions may have gotten the better of me.  This set of "fat cheek" prosthetics is made to be applied on the outside.  That does make more sense, talkingwise, doesn't it?

[sittything]

[Arcadia]

Sitty, ??????

[sittything]

lol.  I couldn't find a gif for marbles in the mouth... so you get cheeze wiz.

[Arcadia]

Ughgghh, I'm almost sorry I asked....

[Carol the Dabbler]

Well, look at it this way -- you saved me from having to ask!  :D

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Reminds me of the game "Chubby Bunny":  Stick a marshmallow in your mouth and say chubby bunny.  Repeat the process without chewing the marshmallows and see how many fit in your mouth before you become completely unintelligible. 

[Arcadia]

[Carol the Dabbler]

Arcadia, ??????

[sittything]

[Carol the Dabbler]

Would love to hear the audio from that one!  :D

 

 

 

Umm, we were discussing Mr. Cumberbatch's apparent cheek prosthetics?

 

[Inge l-w]

Dear fellow members, would you kindly stop fooling around? The TV Times Festival is almost upon us, with the three lovely ladies participating, Amanda Abbington has received a very callous, distasteful comment on her Twitter account amounting to a death threat, and Benedict says in another Radio Times interview that he almost turned Sherlock down, because he knew it would be a "populist" role! Tar and feathers would be in order or Irene's riding crop skilfully applied: populist, indeed! Even now NSY runs the Holmes2 software, in honour of the original "populist" character! That's one more reason to make me like Jeremy Brett more: he had gone to Eton ( light years above Harrow), but he never let his fans feel that very privileged upbringing! Yep, we like the populist Mr Sherlock Holmes: problem, Benedict?

He doesn't even have the excuse of not knowing the exact meaning of the word: he dropped History at A levels, but all the same! Apparently, the actor shares one important characteristic with his "populist" alter ego: no brain to mouth filter!

So, all the fans of the one have to do is spread hostility against the other leading actors, and S4 goes up in smoke and flames.

[sittything]