Benedict Cumberbatch wore a terrible wig, worked in a moat for ‘Richard III’

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Here are some photos of Benedict Cumberbatch filming The Hollow Crown in the moat of Leeds Castle at some point. Fame/Flynet dated these photos as November 21, but they were released on November 28, so I don’t know what to tell you. I will say this… Benedict isn’t a vain man when it comes to playing certain roles. Richard III is never portrayed as a dashing, handsome man, but there have been versions where Richard isn’t quite so… I don’t know? Gross? THAT WIG. That wig alone proves that Benedict has no actor vanity. Also: Richard’s boat had #AllTheVelvet?

So, what else is going on with Bendy? Sigh… there are still interviews coming out. People Magazine did one sit-down interview and they’ve been parceling out the quotes piece by piece for a week now – go here and here to read. Benedict also did some press with his home away from home, PBS. Benedict has always been supportive of PBS, probably because PBS airs Sherlock. Benedict did PBS’s News Hour – here’s the video:

And he also appeared on Charlie Rose. Here’s one clip where he talks about his parents and deciding to be an actor:

Here’s another clip – he talks about Sherlock and playing a genius & how much he loves the popularity of his version of Sherlock.

Even though I’m tired of how oversaturated he is, I still enjoy listening to his voice. His voice is both sexy AND soothing. I’m very relaxed listening to him. I want him to read me a bedtime story.

PS… Some people think that Benedict did the voiceover for the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer. O RLY? It doesn’t actually sound like him at all. And Yahoo’s studio sources say that the voice is actually Andy Serkis.

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Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

 

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  1. laetitia says:

    First! Having an early morning flight has its perks.

    Benedict’s voice is amazing. He should just have voice recordings of him reading bedtime stories and call it – Bedtime with Benedict. He could make a pretty penny for those bedtime stories.

  2. Ingrid says:

    Am I the only one who likes the wig and the Richard III look?

  3. Alice says:

    Well, he has been in battle, so you wouldn’t expect him to be all coiffed, but he still looks good to me. I could really get into those tights. Well, not literally, hmm, oh, you know what I mean.

  4. spiders123 says:

    he is an ugly Richard iii because he is an ugly man…

  5. just me says:

    Not a fan of the wig. I know the idea is to make him look (more) unattractive but it’s a bad wig. He looks like a man wearing a wig, not a man sporting a different hair cut.

  6. Hazel says:

    The Imitation Game got a higher Per Theatre Average than The King’s Speech did. I’m happy for Keira.

    • Lilacflowers says:

      Imagine how well it might have done if they actually made it available to more moviegoers? As it is going now, I may see The Hollow Crown II before I see TIG. And I’m not the only person pointing this out. The AMPAS voter sitting next to me in a restaurant last night was complaining about how difficult the distributor has made it for voters who don’t live in Los Angeles or New York to see this film.

      • Hazel says:

        Well all indies usually open in limited release in both LA and NYC as it allows word of mouth to build. Not only did TIG use this method, so did Foxcatcher, Birdman, The Theory of Everything and Boyhood and just like those films, TIG will eventually have a nationwide release. An AMPAS member should know that to be honest.

      • Luna says:

        Go to Boxofficemojo and look at the releases of this kind of films. They are always released limited (4-6 theaters) and after some weeks the go wide.
        It is not beleivable that AMPAS voters didn’t know that. I call BS.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        Birdman opened here the same time it opened in NYC. TTOE opened here one week later. I saw Foxcatcher Thursday at the time my family had hoped to see TIG. TIG doesn’t come here until mid-December, weeks after this “limited release” when it will be buried in a crush of other films. Considering the amount of press this film has received, including the cover of Time magazine and the various talk shows, it really shouldn’t need “word of mouth.” As for the AMPAS member; “knowing” and “liking” are two very, very different things. He seemed well aware of how and why things are handled; he didn’t like the way things are handled.

      • Luna says:

        Birdman opened on Friday 17 October, only on:
        NEW YORK:
        AMC Lincoln Square and Angelika Film Center
        LOS ANGELES
        The Landmark and The Arclight Hollywood
        Then it expanded to many other theaters on October 23.
        So if you don’t live in LA or NY you didn’t watch it when it was released.
        Foxcatcher opened on November 14, you watched it two weeks later.
        I still think it is bs.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        I saw Birdman in BOSTON at 7 PM on Friday, October 17, 2014.

      • gg says:

        Most AMPAS voters watch screeners, they don’t go to the theatre anyway!

      • Lilacflowers says:

        @gg, yes, they get screeners but some prefer to see the film on a larger screen in a movie theater.

    • Hazel says:

      @lilacflowers It won’t. Harvey’s handled this release flawlessly. This film is an indie and it needs word of mouth in order to translate to good nationwide box office, Benedict did all this last year for his flop and it didn’t help at all as the film had really bad word of mouth. The expansion is obviously timed with the Golden Globe nominations meaning that it gets a bit of free extra press and I suppose it will expand to more theatres after the BAFTA and Oscar nominations are announced. It’s probably going to expand to more markets than most of the Oscar releases and do a lot better.

      As for the other releases, I think Birdman only expanded to 50 theatres after, Foxcatcher to 24, and TTOE to approximately 40. I assume that TIG will expand a tiny bit just like them. All indies work like this so I wonder why the AMPAS member is just disgruntled with this one.

      • Cate says:

        If you’re not on the payroll of ‘Harvey’s’ (as you call him apparently) then you should seriously consider applying. I do hope you’re in the business though, because otherwise all that movie release knowledge is going to waste. Don’t just call just out other commenters on so called BS please. You are quite rude. And again, if you’re not working for The Weinstein Company you’re quite honestly over invested.

      • Maggie says:

        It is great news for TIG and Harvey has handled the release very well.
        Here is the link to the Deadline article:

        http://deadline.com/2014/11/the-imitation-game-box-office-debut-per-theater-average-1201302952/
        ———————————-
        “The Imitation Game received an A+ CinemaScore and only a handful of films get that result,” said Lomis. Both male and female audience-goers gave it a large majority of definite-recommends, he said. The audience was 52% female.”

        “I think it strikes a chord with the art-house crowd, fans of historical film and gay audiences love this film,” Lomis said. “Also, to tech-heads, Alan Turing is a god-like figure and fans of Benedict Cumberbatch are excited for this.”

        Following a route similar to The King’s Speech, TWC will expand The Imitation Game to six additional markets and about 25 theaters by Dec. 12. The film is going into wide release on Christmas Day.”
        ————————————
        You are quite right, Hazel, that this is the usual release strategy for Indie films and also the sort of release strategy that Harvey used for The King’s Speech. It is also continuing to do excellent BO in the UK.

      • Soothy says:

        Certainly the results Harvey wants, that’s for sure. But his means of getting them makes me feel ill. Also makes me feel quite sick to see women praising this repellant man.

      • icerose says:

        Paddington Bear just opened here and it has got rave reviews on the BBC film show last night. They made me want to see it in away that all of Harvey’s publicity has not

  7. tasha_nat says:

    His voice is sexy. Listen to him read the Sherlock Holmes Rediscovered Railway Mysteries. Or Little Red Hen. And I kind of like him all mussed like that. Let’s roll in the dirt.

    (Let’s just all focus on his work and not his recent weirdness and douchebaggery and all will be fine.)

  8. 'P'enny says:

    That cushion looks well made, clean and rather perfect for them times.

  9. ncboudicca says:

    All we all going to ignore that…jacket…he’s wearing on Charlie Rose? OK, fine.

  10. Lilacflowers says:

    He thought his Little Charles i n August: Osage County was the typical American guy next door? Not in any American neighborhood I’ve ever resided in.

  11. LAK says:

    I feel fatigued by all these interviews.

    Until I saw the Fassbender post yesterday, i’d forgotten how much I missed your Fassbender obsession.

    Please can we go back to that.

  12. Ingrid says:

    The Great Evening Standard Awards debate:

    What are we thinking? Will they or won’t they?

    Moving the discussion from previous thread here and here’s my take:

    I hope I’m wrong and she won’t show up but I have a bad feeling about this.ESA is a major theater award, she’s, as we all know, very Succesfull!Theatre!Director! (who hasn’t actually directed anything significant ever)

    She was at Bright Young Things Gala so theater is obviously worthy of her delicate, noble beauty.

  13. lindy79 says:

    Ive watched Behind Again this weekend and Keira Knightley is my confirmed girlcrush

  14. Ingrid says:

    Pained smiles: check. Florals: check. Awkward body language: check

    https://twitter.com/Anythingbatch/status/539133405355868160

  15. Kris10 says:

    I think he looks hot. Especially in the first pic.

  16. Ash says:

    It seems like our delicate shy flower enjoys the whole hype immensely… Her face clearly says – “Yes, now I am getting the designer dresses for free and my pics will be everywhere tomorrow!”

  17. ellesbelles says:

    I really hate that dress. The cut is completely wrong for her, pockets again, and its hanging like a sack. The coloring is alright, but everything else just looks… off

    And the facial expressions make me sad

    • lunchcoma says:

      Yeah, that is not an attractive dress at all. I get that sometimes the date of the celebrity might not be a fashion icon because no one’s sending her free clothes or might purposefully dress down so the attention stays on the actual famous person, but that dress doesn’t fit in either of those categories. It’s ugly and it’s attention-grabbing and it probably cost a couple thousand dollars.

    • Isadora says:

      Yeah, I’m not a huge fan of the dress either. But I find it immensely funny that it is ANOTHER floral. I mean, as far as I can tell she always loved floral dresses, but after Benedict’s disparaging comment about “florals” I sometimes think she does it on purpose. *lol*

      #QueenoftheFlorals

  18. lindy79 says:

    Christ on a penny farthing they look so over it and each other for a newly engaged couple.. F*cking genuinely smile and look happy ffs!

  19. Ash says:

    SH dress is Erdem again. 3647 GBP.

  20. Ingrid says:

    2nd picture: She’s drinking (scarp the pregnancy theory) and he’s calling a cab to get home.

    Also, scarp the “they just look miserable because there are a lot of cameras, these are taken inside)

    Also, Tom & Ben <3
    http://talalyla.tumblr.com/post/104002874345/londonphile-benedict-cumberbatch-tom

  21. Encumbered says:

    He looks more relaxed and happy with Hiddles, tbh. BC and SH still look mechanical and strained.

    And every time I see a picture of Wintour, I say “FU” for the animals whose deaths you could give a shit about so you can wear their skin. I’d like to see BC do the same–probably wishful thinking on my part.

  22. Renee says:

    This is supposed to be a newly-engaged couple in love with one another? Really?

    I have pics of my brother and I that look better than these two weirdos. Am I missing the pics where these two look like they actually love another??

  23. Ash says:

    Sorry, this is the old photo of Laura.. So the dress is not from the last collection?

  24. maudfricker says:

    According to a tweet I just read Ben snuck out of the theatre to chat and sign autographs with fans. Interesting. . .
    http://iconosquare.com/p/865333672502359939_341473068

  25. Wait I'm Typing says:

    Hmmm, I just checked londonphile and they do seem to have a fair amount of distance between them, much more than the distance between him and Hiddleston. His smile is different with Hiddleston as well, warmer perhaps?
    All I will say about her is her dress fits a little weirdly around her midsection (although I don’t think she’s pregnant, don’t think he’d let the future mother of his children drink while prego) and she has the same smal smile as she always does near him.

    Also the photos with Wintour make me laugh, it looks like they wheeled out his wax figure for those ones!

    Ps. Hooray! Hiddleston is finally out and about. I’ve suddenly been missig him lately and I’m not even that much of a fangirl for him (I’ve seen a lot of his films though, I think so far his choices have been more varied. Indie vampire romance, comic book villain, animated pirate, war film, period drama, not sure what to call High Rise-edgy? And he has a gothic thriller coming out as well as a biopic about a country music legend, those two couldn’t be more different and I really appreciate that he dips his toe in new waters.

    • Mikasa says:

      Yay to see Hiddles back in the spotlight…I hope he wins an award and BC can present it to him. That would be awesome!
      I’m also curious as to what Tom has to say re. Benedict’s engagement and what he thinks of Sophie. Can someone post links of the red carpet interviews. Thanks.

      • Isadora says:

        It may be the first time he met Sophie since BC and her are only together 5-6 months or something (?) and TH has been very busy with High-Rise and ISTL this year. Unless he met her during one of his short stays in London. But while I believe that BC and TH are good friends, I don’t think they are so incredibly close that they meet each other (and their girlfriends) the second one of them has a few free days before he’s off to another film set.

    • Cate says:

      I’m glad about his Wintour coolness. She stands for everything he has a very low tolerance for. All that ‘hanging out’ must’ve been quite forced. *Shiver* It’s so sad really, all these people kissing up to her don’t care for her person at all, or even actively dislike her. So she gets to spend time with them because of favours and who she is. While they can’t wait to get away from her. I’d rather be a so called nobody instead. But of course she has an entirely different way of thinking.

  26. Ingrid says:

    LOL

    Someone is avoiding spending time with the love of his life:
    #BenedictCumberbatch “actually snuck back out of press to come and sign for everyone’

    https://twitter.com/Anythingbatch/status/539144093990146048

    Sweet of him though…

  27. rosie says:

    Wow. In the pic with TH, both TH and BC are looking at the camera. But in most of the other photos, BC is looking elsewhere. He’s checked out, looks like he doesn’t want to be there.

    Sophie’s dress looks like a school sewing project, even AW’s dress is meh. Very dull dressing for both of them. A stylish short dress would be better than these frumpy long dresses. Sophie is tall and slim, she could certainly wear something more stylish.

    Hiddles looks at the camera in every shot. Good to see him, he’s been away too, too long.

  28. Lucifer says:

    Did anybody notice a ring today. I didn’t ;)

  29. Encumbered says:

    All BC needs to do is point at SH and those pictures become fan selfies. Yes, selfies…. lol….

  30. Wait I'm Typing says:

    One question, if someone sees a photo of the engagement ring could you please link it? U don’t see it in any of these photos and I’m curious to see if it fits better or if it’s even the same one (some people had a theory that it was a loaner ring).

    I’m still on the fence with these two but every time I see photos of other couples I get really suspicious. McAvoy/Duff still look like new lovers the way they stare at each other and the other couples all seem so close (literally and emotionally). I just don’t see it with cumberbatch/hunter but what do I know, I’m not exactly in the wedding invitations list.

  31. Soothy says:

    Isn’t it odd that the DM had a fawning article to go one hour after the arrival pics were taken. I mean… huh?

  32. Kazlock 1307 says:

    I’m definatly not seeing ‘pregnant’.I see a dress with a drop waist and fuller skirt and I see skillfully applied make up that gives a fuller looking face.
    I don’t see either of them looking happier than NY.They display no signs of being a newly enGAGed couple in love.

  33. Claire says:

    Hi to the rest of the crew that missed us on the weekend: we had two polls. Who thinks it’s a fake/PR/sham engagement and or relationship, and who thinks he’ll actually marry Sham Wow?

    If you didn’t participate then, feel free to add to the numbers here.

  34. solanaceae (Nighty) says:

    Ok, just my two cents, I started working in a new schools in midseptember, all my colleagues were total strangers to me two months ago and yet, I think we have a deeper connection than these two… for real… It’s so weird all this, and he has such a sad look, as if something is missing…

  35. Ingrid says:

    A few seconds of our happy couple arriving (no eye contact:check, major lip pursing: check) and an interview.

    “Poppy”, “Poppy”, “Poppy” So he can say women’s names after all?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rGdoYj1t6k

  36. Claire says:

    Would be hilarious if she’s not wearing the ring.

    And if he is frosty around AW but with TH that’s a good indicator what we’re seeing an ongoing pattern of how he expresses his closeness and admiration of people with his body language, as opposed to it being uss doing wishful thinking because we don’t think she’s good for him. You know what I mean?

  37. rosie says:

    1) Yes, engagement is fake/PR
    2) No, they won’t get married.

    All-over print dresses must be a new thing this year, Kiera also wore a pink/black print dress to the TIG NY premier. Can’t say I care for them though.

  38. Milly T says:

    Oh my goodness !! This does not look like a happy couple. It makes me sad. I believe that he will come to his senses and realize that she is not the one for him. Just hoping, that people close to him such as his friends and family will help him see this before it is too late. The change in him is quite remarkable.

  39. solanaceae (Nighty) says:

    Sorry for being so naive… but SH is drinking a glass wine and Ben is not.. Is that influence from the HW PR machine? Or just casualty? What do you think?

  40. ellesbelles says:

    This is rude of me but I’ve just made myself laugh with this internal monologue:

    BC to some esteemed theatre person: Yes this is my fiance Sophie, she’s an accomplished theatre director herself

    Esteemed theatre person to SH: How lovely, would I know of your work?

    SH: Well I got dry humped in a field once, and did some softcore tentacle porn

    Esteemed theatre person: ……… right…..

  41. Silly goose says:

    They had all this time to practice ‘couple in love’ and that’s all they came up with??? I’m disappointed. None of them smile or look at each other. And don’t even ask about their performance in the video. Pathetic. And pockets on dresses? I read somewhere that hands in pockets mean you are hiding something. Hands often show the strain you are under.
    And on a different note:Tom looks horrible, like the survivor of a concentration camp. Help
    Today’s photos have the potential to give me nightmares!

  42. **sighs** says:

    I’m honestly surprised at the faces. I’m sure his pr told him to look loved up and smile. Even random twitter people and such noticed that last time around. Did they suggest it and he just really can’t pull it off? Can he find her so repugnant he can’t even muster up a smile? Have they just given up on him acting loved up so they just send them out together and shrug their shoulders saying, “we’ve done all we can”?

    There is truly no reason I can think of for him to physically not be able to smile around his brand new FIANCEE. I don’t care how much of a delicate flower she is or how much he hates his fans/press.

  43. Ingrid says:

    *sporfle*

    Ladies, we have the pictures! He’s *almost* looking at her and isn’t that just the look of love?

    http://cumberbatchcoffeeklatch.tumblr.com/post/104022325849/x-x

    I’m actually crying with laughter.

  44. solanaceae (Nighty) says:

    On another note TOM got the award for best actor… :) Nice one..

  45. Soothy says:

    And apparently the miserable red carpet posing is on the front of the papers YET again. This is getting embarrassingly transparent now. How on earth can this be front page news, he was just presenting an award FFS? Quite clearly this is being forced down the public’s throats on a regular basis. This poor movie has truly been drowned in this crap and these games and it’s making me angry.

    • rosie says:

      I agree, Soothy. How about showing a photo of the actors that actually won the awards ?? It is obnoxious. Backlash is inevitable.

      • Soothy says:

        Oh god. Now the express headline to ‘cumberbatch brings his ‘gorgeous’ fiancee’. Seriously, this is just embarrassing. So utterly embarrassing. Are these papers getting backhanders for this or something because I’m just flummoxed.

      • Ingrid says:

        @Soothy – I’m truly starting to think someone is paying off The Daily Fail at least. He’s front and center and not one mean word of SH or BC. And they are not taking the bait with the Octopussy video and other embarrassing things she has done. Usually that’s right up DM’s alley.

        The worst article was the spy one and that’s hardly even a thing…

      • Soothy says:

        @ingrid

        The picture is front cover of The Mail too? :0 That is shockingly awful.

        And that article from last night was obviously ready to go. Within one hour of the arrivals pics, the article was online complete with ‘they looked so in love’ caption.
        How can anyone not see this BS?

      • Ingrid says:

        @Soothy – I meant the web page, don’t know about the actual paper.

        And DM seems to write the articles before the event, so they can be the first ones to publish them.

    • Ingrid says:

      ITA!!!!!

      I’m absolutely furious. The untalented nobody got the front page because she got engaged while GA & TH and other actually did the work to earn it. ( The Guardian thankfully were smarter and put GA on the cover)

      When has a newspaper put an award presenter on the cover instead of the winner /nominee? And who hear thinks BC could have gotten the cover without this mess? No one!

      But of course this has nothing to do with PR. Noooo, absolutely. It’s truuuuee loooovee…

      • Soothy says:

        Yeah, I’m genuinely angry. We’ve done the whole awkward red carpet pics of them on the front page together. Why roll it out again and at an event where he was only presenting at and ignoring the purpose of the event which was to honour the award winners? It’s unbelievable really. Truly.

        And where’s TIG in all this? Completely and utterly lost.

  46. tie pin says:

    cumberbuddy on tumblr has some gorgeous photos of Ben with a whole host of people – James McAvoy, Ian McKellen, Kate Bush (be still my heart!) etc. – and what an enormous contrast it is.

    http://cumberbuddy.tumblr.com/

    These are the warm, comfortable, “pulled in” poses we should be seeing with SH and they’re just not there. So telling. And may I be permitted to say that Ben looks better with men 99.9% of the time? He just does. Maybe it’s due in large part to him “working” when we see him in photos with other men, but he almost always compliments and is in turn complemented in those moments.

  47. Claire says:

    Well it looks like we have a bunch of new people joining our side of things. Welcome all!

    And you two mentioning Stoppard above: Stoppard is a king of theatre: don’t confuse her hobnobbing with anything more. All he has to do is check out her work, no way in hell he will see her as talented in any way.

  48. BlueStahli says:

    Semi related note: Can we get Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon to host the Oscars? I don’t care if America isn’t familiar with them. They rock.

  49. Lucifer says:

    tom stoppard’s speech after accepting the award from BC>>> “I had the pleasure of sitting next to Benedict’s fiance this evening.. He’s going to be ok,”
    ;)
    :D

  50. jammypants says:

    I feel like one of the very few who does not feel any negativity towards Sophie. Maybe I don’t care about Ben enough. But even so, I just think she seems alright.

    • M.A.F. says:

      I feel the same way. As entertaining as some of the comments are, people need to realize that not everyone is an open book.

      • Claire says:

        Just going off people whose body language and career related comments I’ve seen and heard, and especially which circles they run in (which is what we’re going off here), I’ve never been wrong, and the only ones I got wrong had personality disorders.

    • M.A.F. says:

      I feel the same way. As entertaining as some of the comments are, people need to realize that not everyone is an open book.

    • M.A.F. says:

      I feel the same way. As entertaining as some of the comments are, people need to realize that not everyone is an open book.

      • Just here says:

        LOL! Too funny.

        I think Sophie is pretty. I know others don’t, but there it is. I don’t find her particularly likeable, however, and I’m surprised with myself when I admit that. I mean, she is *just* what I imagined him with! And yet all the weirdness around their relationship, and then all the weirdness around the engagement…

        But I don’t wish her any ill will, either.

        I’ve asked myself, What could take me ‘off the fence’ so-to-speak about their relationship? I guess I could sum it up as ‘let down your guard and stop being so defensive around people’. Really, I’d prefer to see one photo of them with interlaced hands smiling at each other over dozens of interviews describing how ‘in love’ he is. Words don’t make a relationship. Actions do.

      • Soothy says:

        @just me

        Really? She’s exactly the opposite of what I imagined him with.

        I don’t think it’s an issue of being ‘defensive around people’ either. If that were the case, the parade of red carpet posing wouldn’t be happening at all. She doesn’t have to pose for photographers but she is. And she seems to be enjoying it. And that also doesn’t match the fact that he has been saying sone very weird, out of character and clumsy things of late. All the very manufactured sounding declarations of adoration from someone who last year wouldn’t even talk about their relationship status.

    • Soothy says:

      It’s not about being an ‘open book’. People’s opinions of her are based on a lot more than a few weird red carpet photos. And largely, the opinions of this entire circus that’s been playing out are actually little to do with her personally.

    • Sunflower says:

      I think we would sound a lot less like jealous fan girls if we did away with the negativity towards her. M.A.F. makes a good point that we don’t really know her. And part of me could be convinced that maybe there is something real there, but this whole thing has been so strange…

      • Soothy says:

        @sunflower

        Sorry, but no. Please don’t bring the ‘jealous fangirls’ crap into this. Firstly, I’m an individual with my my own mind, so there’s no collective ‘we fans should do this’ as far as I’m concerned.
        What do you define as ‘negativity’? And if you’re ‘negative’ then you’re obviously just a jealous fangirl? That’s pretty patronising to a hell of a lot of people. There are several aspects of what I’ve seen and she’s exhibited of herself that I don’t like. Her attitude, her work etc..
        I’m allowed to express that without having dimwitted obsessed tumblrites throwing ‘OMGZ YOU ALL JELLY, SHE IS SOOOO PERF!!!!’ at me. If people are stupid and childish enough to not see what’s in front of them or read what people are saying, then that’s their problem. I refuse to withold opinions I have just because I’m not spewing rainbows over this circus he’s created for himself.

      • Sunflower says:

        Oh God, that came out wrong. The ‘so perf’ makes me want to barf, and I have major side-eyes towards her ‘career’ as well. I just meant it’s easier to throw the jealous fan girl on us when there is some negativity towards her (which isn’t nearly as much as the nannies would have people believe).

      • Soothy says:

        But all I’ve really seen is the (completely understandable) criticism of her art/acting. There hasn’t been anything (certainly not on here anyway) that would give any credence at all to the ‘jealous fangirl’ BS. If obsessed nannies are going to take that line because we’re actually rightly sideeying this and not stepfording our appreciation like blinkered weirdo minions, then that’s their problem.
        Re: her dress etc, well, people are critical of fashion and that’s always been fair game. I for one think it’s rather shady that she’s shilling these Erdem dresses at these events now.
        All of that is largely irrelevant though as clearly the overwhelming discussion is on the general behaviour and actions surrounding all this, not her in particular.

      • Renee says:

        I’m not a fangirl. Never going to be. I was and I’m still trying to be a fan of his and of his work. However, his work seems to have taken a backseat to the media circus that is his engagement. He’s mentioned it in nearly every interview he’s given and now they’re on the front page of a newspaper, for what? (I’m in the States. I don’t get that one, but whatever. He didn’t win anything last night. Why would they be on the front page and not the actual winners, ffs!)

        I agree with Soothy. This whole thing has been a complete circus and it’s weird and bizarre and you know what? I think I have a right to say that. I think I also have a right to say that from what I’ve seen of her, I don’t particularly care for her. I also don’t think she’s done him any favors at all, given the change in his behavior. I think they look fake and phony and downright odd together and until I see anything different, I’m probably going to keep thinking that.

      • Green Eyes says:

        There really isn’t anything positive to say about SH – she’s really not that good at *anything*. Oh, except I can say for myself that I think she has nice skin. That’s it.
        She’s a terrible actress, a terrible-to-meh singer, and a mixed review production person in theater (not really a Theater Director). And this *is* a gossip board so we can side-eye Miss Hunter to our heart’s content.

        Oh and the dress: Someone said on the previous thread that Keira was given Erdem dresses (for this promotional tour?). So, likely, any extras that Keira did not want were handed down to SH to wear.

        Oh and I really wish one of the tabs would pick up on SH’s previous work: the Octopussy video or the rolling around on the floor as a pregnant woman would be good.

    • Emily says:

      Sophie doesn’t bother me either. All of his ex girlfriends have that posh, resting b face going on. So his choice in her, whether real or not, is unsurprising to me.

      IMHO, the negativity of this situation rests on Benedict. It’s tiring for people to go on as if he’s an innocent party. When actors get into bed with Harvey, this is the result. He’s not naive or green enough to be unaware of how it works. No one gets to the top without betraying their integrity and values at some point along the way. Go big or go home.

  51. Lucifer says:

    Maybe completely nitpicking, but i think with all off his prev GFs (real GFs *wink*) his hand used to be quite below the waist line while with octopussy its on the back not even on the waist. m I looking too closely or u guys noticed that too?

  52. ellesbelles says:

    Alright. These are my say something nices for SH, after I took the piss out of her about her THEE-A-TAH career.

    The coloring of her dress suits her nicely. The dress itself is fug
    Her makeup looks very nice
    Her hair is really glossy, and I’m a little jealous.

    Other than that she looks and appears to behave like a pretentious brat.

    Ben looked nice, it was nice to see some smiles, even if it was at the expense of manipulating Poppy a little bit, given their past interview history, and I fluttered at seeing Ben and Tom together

    • Soothy says:

      She’s got way too much make up on. In some of the red carpet posing her face is a shade of white that’s much lighter than her neck. And her hair has just been straightened. She’s obviously got a stylist for these events. I guess that’s what an avant garde person does.

  53. Florence says:

    All these cumberbatch posts were really starting to annoy me but I’ve actually really started to enjoy reading the comments! They’re hilarious!