Twitter knows me too well. The Fifth Estate producers know me too well. I swear, every day, I’m getting tweets from The Fifth Estate’s Twitter account with new and beautiful photos of Benedict Cumberbatch. So I thought I would share them with you. We’re having a bit of a lull these days, gossip-wise, so why not just stare at photos of our lovely Cumberbatch? You know what I like about these promotional pics? His eyes. Benedict’s eyes are so enchanting.
Benedict was also photographed a few nights ago in London, at the Justin Timberlake concert. Benedict was seen smoking a cigarette and hanging out with Chris Pine, his buddy from Star Trek Into Darkness. GO HERE to see the photos. I have to admit something… Benedict looks more into Chris Pine than Pine looks into Cumby. I mean, it’s cute that they’re concert buddies and everything but Cumby looks like he has a dude-crush on Pine. Is that cute? Or is it just… I don’t know, weird?
In other Cumby news, Benedict will make another appearance on The Graham Norton Show to promote The Fifth Estate (and probably 12 Years a Slave too). Benedict will appear on the season premiere episode on October 11th – two Fridays from now. Hopefully by then we’ll have some premiere photos or some new interviews or something. I’m going through Cumberbatch Withdrawal over here.
PS… Is this a “Would You Hit It?” kind of post? Sure, why not? And of course I would hit it, even when he was wearing his Assange wiglet.
Photos courtesy of ‘The Fifth Estate’.
I actually think he looks better with longish hair (e.g. second-to-last pic)…
*hangs head in shame*
Yes. I still would.
The trailer for Hobbit: Smaug just dropped and his voice is like spicy honey in that.
I second that opinion. Best thing about the trailer.
I think I like “spicy honey” as a description of his voice as much as “jaguar in a cello.”
*sigh*
I actually like how he looks in the third picture (and I’m not into blondes or whatever the hell Assange’s hair colour is).
But I’m over him.
I swear.
Really, I’m over this motherf*cker.
The third picture, where you can barely see his face? 🙂
Eh, I might if I’m bored. (I’m bored)
To be honest, I also like the first and second ones.
But I insist that I’m over him.
P.S.: I’m kinda bored, too…*nudge, nudge, wink, wink*
Let me entertain you, and we’ll have a real good time, yessir!
@Eve
Oh stop. You guys are just fighting but you still love him deep down inside lol,j/k. But to be serious continue to post here. Your humor is gold.
I would hit it too, I even kinda like the ones with the long hair. Sigh, between this and my growing hiddles fascination I don’t think i’ll have the energy for all the exuberence.
Really? Even when he’s in leather and brandishing the leaf blower and sense of genetically engineered superiority?
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Superiority of any kind gets me every time.
Really, I swear…*shifts eyes rapidly*
Come back! Together you and I can rule the kingdom!!! When he’s annoying us, we can just stuff him in the attic for a while.
Using CumberKhan to lure me back in is not fair.
ugh… Cumberkhan is my favorite flavor!!!
(what that says about me, I’m not really sure. I like hair extensions and appreciate a nice jacket?)
@Eve, we can pretend that you don’t take him back 100% – you can just have some steamy moments with CumberKhan in a space capsule now and then, just for the old times sake. That could work as a cover-up story for your deep burning desire…
@ Vesta:
Nope, after the RovaGate/PR disaster I’m not taking him back 100%. That sh*t was embarrassing.
It’d be more like a hatef*ck type of situation.
@Eve I know he has lost his chance for your real love, I’m just teasing here 🙂
Ah, hate/shamef*cks work very well around here. And he sure is collecting more of those hate/shamepoints once again with his JT music taste…
ummm the white hair doesn’t look that great on him as his natural hair colour. My worry is THAT voice will it annoy me for 2 hours.. so a big old NO for me. I am not over him YET but if I hear anymore stupid stories I might be.
“I am not over him YET but if I hear anymore stupid stories I might be.”
I feel the same way as you.
Let me clarify something: I’m half serious, half joking (so, basically, trolling) when I say I’m over him.
Sephora Wilson (above) was the only one who saw through my bullsh*t.
@Eve – yes I am not over him yet.. but I go on/off. His smoking puts me off as if I’d get that close LOL.
Doesn’t suit him at all although the long is WAY better(does it even suit Assange?) but still looking forward to watching this.
Cute little extra to add here about the pics of Ben with Chris Pine. The shirt that he is wearing in the pics was actually sent to him by fans. I believe they sent him that shirt, a tie, a pair of socks and a scarf. How awesome to send something to someone you admire and actually see them wearing it. No wonder his fans love him so much!
So, if he’s that considerate…
*jumps into a post parcel and mails herself by express to Cumby’s bedroom*
Ha, girl! I did it first!!!!
Yes, you did, Kronster 🙂
So it’s only fair that now it’s my turn!
Aaah, damn you!!! ^^
Fantastic. While you girls are sitting in the post office during the government shut down, I’ll take a cab over there and surprise him by hiding in a giant gift-wrapped sock.
Oy, nice try @T.Fanty — But since Cumby lives in London, my parcel is bound to travel only in Europe (and is coming from a shorter distance anyway) – it will be MY super-duper hot night this time!
I’m sorry to tell all y’all this, but this has been done & done to death.
Have you forgotten that Lindy & I contorted ourselves & dislocated some limbs in order to fit into Cumby’s suitcases a few weeks ago? We were carried right into his hotel suite, pretty as you please.
Yes, we could have used some oxygen. Sometimes you don’t think of every little thing. Word to the wise.
He didn’t seem ~that~ unhappy, but the next day he did say he didn’t want to open any more steamer trunks, wooden crates, or voluptuous birthday cakes & hear “Surprise!” He said it was fun the first couple of hundred times; now he just needs his sleep.
An update: Lindy is almost able to straighten her legs again, & my shoulders don’t pop out of their sockets as much now— thanks for asking.
@EsCon – 🙁 Don’t be mad… You’re responsible, you know. If you write those stories here, kids are going to copy your dangerous ideas.
Truth to be told, your suitcase-acrobatics were plain scary. I’m never going to forget that horrible crackling sound of twisting ligaments…
Post parcel is just a healthier option, and since the opportunity came once again, we had to grab it. Cumby is not bored, at all, he just needed some new flesh.
Yep, still would – but I’d close my eyes and think of Sherlock hair.
As Assange?! Dear god no I would not hit it, that wig in terrifying!
Include Chris Pine in the deal and I’ll think about it… 😉
I actually like that he is friends with Chris Pine am I the only 1? I don’t know why I just do.
It hasn’t been a story on Benedict in awhile. It’s been quiet around him since he’s been filming the IG movie. As much as I love Benedict I have no desire to see this film though. I’m more excited for August Osage County.(which is sad). I wanna see some cumber-singing and playing that piano.
I get what you’re saying @Sephora, dude friendships are cute. Although it better not be a bromance or Zachary Quinto will kick Cumby’s butt. 😉
He really looks into people. Like, *really* looks into them… in interviews, even with fan encounters.
The DoS trailer just came up and I checked CB and this was just posted. Assange with Smaug voice? Freaky!!! Haha. He really looks good in that headshot. He needs to take a bath though.
*wince* No. In any other scenario, even with the bad porno stache he had in Atonement, yes, like a screendoor in a hurricane, but i just can’t with him looking like Assange.
Always. I’d ride him until his wheels fell off.. If you are all giving up on him there’s more auburn dong muff for me. 😉
.. And thanks for the link to the pictures of him sm
…
Can I just say that “auburn dong muff” is just about the best phrase I’ve read all day? 😄
Bloody iPhone!
Thanks for the smoking pictures. Cumberbatch smoking is a peculiar fetish of mine.
I’ll be in my bunk.
Yeah, their smoking looks SO badass *giggles*
Ain’t nuthin’ but a B thang…
I can’t explain it. He looks like a dork in these pictures, but give him a cigarette and I go all wobbly.
I know. To me he looks deliciously bitchy when he lights up a ciggie. I get this weird feeling that I want him to blow that smoke to my face…
Yes! You just hit the nail on the head.. That’s it exactly.
I also love the fact that like me, he’s still smoking when most have quit..
No, not at all. I’m getting a ‘Village of the Damned’ vibe from him in that wig. (the original, not the crappy remake)
And now, how I shall always see Cumby
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Haha,yep that’s the one. I was scared of tow-heads for days after watching it. I didn’t ruin him for you did I?
After all these negative comments I’m starting to wonder if a) I need new glasses or b) am just really slutty.
I have no problem with the answer being ‘both’.
I love this place, I had no clue the DoS trailer was released!
I love that you can still tell it’s him even with the effects.
“Benedict was also photographed a few nights ago in London, at the Justin Timberlake concert.”
First a Lady Gaga concert, now Justin Timberlake’s…DUC’s musical taste has been consistently disappointing me.
I’m hoping it was a “got free tickets, a lot of friends are going and I need a night out” situation.
He also saw Elton John recently. Don’t forget that in spite of everything, there’s still a “down with da kidz” math teacher inside that man, struggling to be free.
I think that’s the case. There’s a Katy Perry concert coming up, too, so I imagine he’ll be there as well. And now I’m picturing him singing along to “California Gurls.” LOL
@ Lindy79:
I hope so — But I’d still say “no” to that if I were him (also, slap whoever invited me).
@ T.Fanty:
You know, TommyAnne once tweeted a “song of the day” and that was simply “Downtown Train” (by Tom Waits). I love Elton John, but Waits belongs to my own personal “Holy Trinity” (Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Nick Cave).
So…surprisingly TommyAnne totally wins this one.
@T. Fanty – And don’t forget that dorky match teacher is ALSO struggling against DUC.
I’ve bought TommyAnne songs before. Sometimes his choices are really fun. I think that we might be able to use his wardrobe as an indication of Cumby’s musical tastes.
@GG, Looking at the Pine pictures last night just makes me want to take the niece out and get her drunk. You know she has some great stories.
Go ahead, TFanty.
Looks like she could murder a triple vodka. Working long hours and going to Timberlake concerts to chaperone her uncle clearly wasn’t in her contract.
Yeah, I have a feeling she thought she’d be answering the phone, get to travel a bit, and maybe pick up his dry cleaning. And yes, she needs a girls’ night out!
I would happily take her out, and force her to ignore the phone when DUC calls because he’s sitting in the living room and can’t find the remote control. And wants to know if we’re talking about him. And then wants to come out and meet us because he can’t turn the telly on and is bored.
Oh God, T.Fanty – you see right through DUC.
Hater! Lady Gaga and JT rock! His taste in music just makes me like him even more 🙂
He’d make my day if I found out that he owned a few Britney albums, lol.
Hmmmmm, free tickets or cool math teacher… As much as I try to understand, I agree that it’s EXTREMELY hard to find an acceptable excuse for going to a Justin Timberlake concert.
His music preferences are all freaking over the place. He was at Sigor Ros and then classical concerts. Loves dancing though, lol.
You’re consistently disappointed by him, and yet here. you. are…
*busted*
Totally over, I swear.
Seriously, who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
There are worse shamef&cks to have, Eve. It’s not like you’re lusting after Franco or anything.
But I like Franco! It’s just that I’ve never been attracted to him (I mean, technically he would never be a shamef*ck).
And DUC is not a shamef*ck…didn’t you read what I typed, like, a hundred times? I’m over him. When one types something that many times, it must be true, right?
@ Eve,
That comment actually had very little to do with you. I was baiting the Mad Scientist (who, in spite of my repeated requests, has still failed to produce an anatomically accurate FrankenHiddles).
Oh…
I can’t figure out where my comments are going.
@Eve,
The concerts—I know. I’m shocked. Can’t he be reasonable & go see Leonard Cohen or someone good?
@Fanty,
Not Math, Fanty! How many times have we been over this?! He says he’s terrible at Math!
I thought we sorted this out when we listened to him trying to recite Ode To A Nightingale in Math instead of English.
He looks ridiculous with that long hair… so glad it’s a wig.
I’d hit it after he took it off, lol.
Thanks, Kaiser! I apologize for having complained about the lack of Cumby pictures on the Hiddles post.
Would I hit …? Yeth. Yeth. Of courth.
Kaiser can blame herself – she has spoiled us and now we just NEED our doses quite often…
Curls, I hope I didn’t interrupt your working mode in a bad way by chanting CUMBERBATCH. These are not his best pictures today, but of course all Cumby pics help a girl to carry on with her work, non? (Although let us pray there’ll be no beardy phases to come)
Those uncle-ish concert shots – I’m not too happy that he hangs out with Chris Pine; I don’t want him to learn too many Lothario-tricks from Pine.
I’m sure they’re discussing nothing but the absolute respect and desire they have for smart women. While checking out models.
Hahaha! Yeah poor innocent Cumby! What exactly gives you the impression he needs instruction in being a Lothario? 🙂
That said, if either he or Pine need help practicing their seduction skills…I am available!
You’re totally right. And checking out not just any models, but especially those “motherly type” ones…
@Mia4S – that’s true 🙂 He probably won’t need help, except some expert tips on how to recognise the most clingy fame ho’s in advance.
EDIT (above) just to be sure: and OMG I really don’t mean you @Mia4S (if there’s any chance it could be read that way) – I’m talking about that certain lately fashionable KE sort of model.
@Vesta: You just call out his name and you know wherever I am, I´ll come running …
I usually have a very strict no facial hair policy, but Cumby being Cumby and me being me I might stretch a point.
Can you even imagine those two talking about women?! Actually, I get into a fit of giggles thinking about Cumby talking about women with just about any male celebrity.
@curls – Winter, spring, summer or fall, all Ka1ser have to do is call, and we’ll be here, yeah, yeah, yeah
You know Cumby’s Van Gogh-beard, it’s not that bad!
@GG – Cumby is probably whining how tough time he’s having with women now that he is famous 😉
@Vesta: The Cumberbabyface with THAT Van Gogh beard is heartbreaking.
I am dreading a remake of “Cast Away”.
Would I hit it? Not with that ridiculous Lucious Malfoy-esque greasy hair perched on his head. I thought his Atonement look was gross, but I think this one is even worse.
I think the obvious question, that I demand a visual answer to, is did he go full method with the blond hair this time?
Thanks for making me snort my coffee! 🙂
Yeah, he really opened the gate with that comment, didn’t he? Oh, I just pray that Graham Norton asks him something similar next week.
Blond Dong Muff!
(The eagerly anticipated and critically rated album from ‘Auburn Dong Muff’)
I should stop posting & do some work….
“Blond Dong Muff”.
I’m reading that in Zoidberg’s voice.
I’m just coming back to say that I honestly <3 all of you and that work would be awful and mind-numbing without all you awesome commenters, who are funny and snarky and have actually taught me quite a bit (recepie for a FuzzyTombanger for one thing.)
*hugs for all*
No. Not as Assange and not as himself.
OK, since I am being asked or invited to opine… I might be tempted to “hit” it if he were perfectly disguised as a young or middle-aged Alain Delon.
Or Colin Firth (at any age).
Or Gregory Peck cca. 1953.
Au naturel – him looking like him – instead of hitting it, I might be tempted to hit HIM.
(Not really; it’s just a pun.)
Seriously… I’ve never seen anything this person ever played in (not that i am aware of): I only know him by sight and name, from the rags.
But I doubt anything he could do or say could change my opinion that he has one of the most unfortunately interesting faces I’ve ever seen – and I’ve lived on three continents.
(That’s long-hand for “weird-beyond-any-possibility-of-attraction”.
To me, obviously.)
You are not alone.
“”You know, TommyAnne once tweeted a “song of the day” and that was simply “Downtown Train” (by Tom Waits). I love Elton John, but Waits belongs to my own personal “Holy Trinity” (Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Nick Cave).
So…surprisingly TommyAnne totally wins this one.””
Amen to that.
Just one more reason not to rush out and see Assange-that look is just so washed out and creepy dispite the false tan. Even Assange himself looks better than that. No wonder he was begging Benny not to take the part
On the plus it makes him look younger in an “I am just not hot way”.A good actor but pretty low on the would I scale.
Sorry ladies,but I just don’t see the attraction.He just looks weird to me,but to each their own I guess.
My feelings too. But looks like we are in the minority. Oh well…
Just curious: have you ever been attracted to someone solely on account of their brains, talent, and personality … even though they might not have been your preferred type in the looks department? I’m genuinely curious because it strikes me as odd how many women need to put down BC’s looks as if he’s the first man in the world whom women liked despite how he looks.
I’m sure that he is very talented and smart and no I don’t judge people based on their looks but like most people on Celebitchy people have a preference that’s all.I like Hugh Jackman, but I understand if not everyone feels the same way I do and I respect that.That’s why I wrote to each their own.
I have never found conventionally good looking men or actors attractive but am drawn to talent and passion regardless of the physical attributes. But saying that I tend to be more attracted to long lean men who are witty as well as intelligent. But Benny just does not do it for me based on his public personae and over all looks.For some reason I do not get a lot of passion from him. Some people like Colon Firth can play buttoned up and still ooze passion and sexuality but so far I have not seen that in any of his performances Maybe if I met him in real life and he was caring, funny and engaging his attraction might grow on me who knows.
Pssst…Aqua….I’m with you and Mel.
i still don’t get it too. his face is looks unreal and weird. *peace*
Behind great sexy voice there’s not always great sexy face. No offence.
In my country, here in Indonesia he’s not that very popular. many friends of mine didn’t know him aniway. Tom Cruise and Vin Diesel way more wellknown and popular.. LOL
Yes. Even [dramatic pause] as Assange.
Benedict has won the EMPIRE Magazine’s Poll for sexiest movie star in the world.
And so have Robert Patterson and Tom Hiddlston won sexiest man /actors awards but I take those polls with a pinch of salt as it is all about the fan campaigns at the time and with Sherlock coming up and his presence in the media its not surprising.
I can understand that he has appeal he just does nothing for me I the charisma/sex appeal bracket.
You have some personal vendetta against Cumby…I see you posting negative stuff about him whether in his threads or Tom’s. You always try to put him down and make Tom look like some kinda god.
We get it you like Tom and want him to succeed but open your eyes from a biased judgement. Then Tommyanne fans complain why people compare Tom with Cumby….you guys do those comparisons yourself SMH
Actually fans didn’t campaign for Benedict to win this award. Thats why its very surprising he won. There was hardly any coverage. Hiddleston fans on the other hand bang the drum all the time plus you have the Marvel pr machine who shove him on us all the time! The Empire result is a fair one and not open to bot fixing the way Hiddleston’s recent win was.
I’m a fan, but this look is just, NO.
I won’t notice the wig when he’s pounding me from behind!
No, never ever.
i think he is a very good character actor, the best kind, who disappears in his role. However, like so many “hot/would you hit” guys on this site….ewwwww….no. They are talented but completely not hot to me, just like Hiddleston, Hamm and so very many others. I do think he can bring some depth to the character. I do wish you wouldn’t reduce talented women and men to the sexual base line of would you hit it fantasy. Some of them may actually have staying power as actors.
Would I hit it? NOOOO! IDGI! IDGI at ALL! He looks like a middle-aged woman to me. Seriously, girls, IDGI.
@Abby I have nothing against Benny and have always followed his career as I think he is a good actor. In fact I am going to a double bill of Frankenstein so I can compare him in both roles. I have heard his Frankenstein is very similar to his Sherlock performance so I am interested to see him in a more physical role as the monster.I do have serious issues with the way he has publicised Assange and the film in general.
However I do not find him sexy and probably never will. Just not my physical type. I also find his tendency to arrogance a deterrent to becoming a more committed fan but I do admire him despite his flaws. I never take the rags sexiest men seriously be it Tom or anyone else as they are all about who is riding high around that time and who gets out there to vote.Its all pretty meaningless as how attractive someone is to you is pretty personal unless of course you require thousands of fans to reinforcement your choices which I do not.