Let me just unload. I dislike dresses with only one sleeve. I dislike orange dresses. I dislike asymmetrical hemlines. I dislike obvious wrinkles on expensive dresses. I dislike “undone” hairstyles combined with “polished” ensembles. And even with all of the minuses piling up, I actually think Sophie Hunter looks pretty good here. Yes, the orange dress is fugly, but she wears it well. Yes, her hair needs something, even a loose chignon would be better than this, but still… it’s not awful. Yes, everything is sort of awkwardly wrinkled, but… she looks okay.
These are photos of Sophie at the big opening night for her husband’s opening night. As I said yesterday, Benedict’s endless previews are now done and all of Hamlet’s kinks have been worked out. Maybe it was the endless “previews” or maybe there’s some lingering Cumber-exhaustion, but the opening night red carpet was pretty weak. Benedict didn’t even walk the carpet – the carpet consisted of Sophie, Mark Gatiss, Allen Leech and Dan Stevens and that’s about it. Sophie really was “the star” of the carpet. Too bad her ugly dress clashed with the carpet.
Her dress is by Osman, which is a label we haven’t seen on Sophie before. We’ve seen her wear a lot of Erdem and some notable Valentino (her wedding gown was Valentino) and Lanvin (the red dress at the Oscars). Her shoes are Valentino Rockstud slingbacks. Not my style, but whatever.
Deadline had an interesting review of the play – go here to read. They say that a lot of money went into this production but there are some real fru-fru moments that are slightly ridiculous. They say Bendy is good though.
Some photos of Sophie & Bendy at the after-party:
Photos courtesy of Getty, WENN.
I just want to take scissors to that dress and cut off that sleeve so that it would just be slightly less unflattering. I couldn’t care less about either one of them but because of all the hate they were getting it warms my heart to see them so at ease with eachother.
That’s my issue. I like the color, it’s the sleeve and length that are bugging me.
Color is gorgeous. So is her skin! But that sleeve and hemline has to go!
dislike style and colour-it just lacks style
I Hate EVERYTHING here and I Usually can like with that much Orange
Also Those shoes are HIDEOUS with that dress
Also They look like high born inbred siblings
Seriously, black shoes with an orange dress? Happy Halloween.
They do look like home breeders.
She has lovely skin?
The inbreeding comments are a bit over the line imo
I don’t like the dress at all but it would just be forgetably unflattering and not god awful if it weren’t for that stupid sleeve.
I don’t think Sophie will ever be a style icon. There’s almost always something off about her clothing – and Benedict is pretty much the same. So I guess what they say is true, “There’s a cup for every saucer”!
It’s just TOO. MUCH. ORANGE. It’s not a bad orange in and of itself, but the extra fabric from the one sleeve and the overly long length (forced by tricky hemline) make it a wall of that solid color. Less would have been more with such a bright shade.
@Kay, yeah that was gross. Sorry.
GoodNames, no need to apologize for speaking the truth.
@QQ – Everything you said.
I think the color is great, but that is it. If this dress was the only thing I had to wear to an event, I would at least pair it with chunky strap sandals in the exact orange, chunky orange bracelet(s), paired with gold bangle(s). I kinda like the gold bangle she has, but switch that one to the other side. And gold chain link drop earrings with orange balls on the ends (I could make some in 15 mins from beads, chains & fishhooks I have at home). Hair up and loose, like Kaiser said. There, I am a fashion designer now.
Her posture is terrible here. Let me know when she stands up straight and I’ll look again. (Spoken as someone whose French dressmaker grandmother yelled at millionaire clients to put their shoulders back or she wouldn’t let them leave with the garments, lol!)
Came here to say this (except for the grandma part:p). Beautiful woman, beautiful dress, but she stands so awkwardly. It diminishes all the effort.
She stands like someone with no confidence in herself.
I’m actually a big fan of her shoes, but the length of the dress is really throwing me off. Call me obsessive, but I like my hemlines neat and even.
The colour is pretty, but if I ever wore that shade of orange I’d look like a walking corpse #SeeThroughSkinSquad
I like the shoes, and I like the color on her, but the dress itself is awful, and the shoes do NOT go with it at all. The color of the dress is such that to have two sleeves would be very overpowering–I would have preferred it completely sleeveless. the slit is unnecessary.
She looks like a traffic cone with ants crawling round her feet.
Any other shade of orange (sans black spotty shoes) would have been preferable.
It’s a bad outfit for such a well publicized event. This look would be considered sloppy even for a normal person at a not-so-important event. She has the money to look polished from head-to-toe but there are so many mistakes as Kaiser pointed out that this has to be considered fug. The wrinkled fabric, the ugly color of the dress, the ugly shoes that don’t match the dress, and the one sleeve. All of it is one huge fashion faux pas. Plus, she has bad posture and her hair looks so undone. I liked her pocket dresses much more than this look.
I agree. The whole look is wrong. All of it. She herself looks good for just having had a baby, but her style is a no. At this point her red carpet game should be way better.
she just has no sense of style, but isn’t the first rich person who can’t pick a good dress. in fact, I often find that people who could afford it wear the worst crap. it’s wasted on them 😛
That bright orange is a hard color for a white person to pull off. Its the kind of dress Lupita could rock, but she has the right coloring and posture and attitude to carry it. Sohie looks like she’s slinking into the room thru the back door or something. Her shoulders are hunched which throws everything off. If shes gonna be a professional “MRS. BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH!” she needs some media/red carpet training at the very least. She usually looks like she just got back from the gym and thew on the dress in the back of the cab…
The dress and styling are fug but they look happy. Has the name of our new otter overlord been revealed yet?
I used to be super into Dan Stevens, but he’s giving me Calvin Harris vibes now.
Dan Stevens looks like a completely different person. It’s kind of strange.
Given how much I dislike all the components of the dress, as a whole it’s not bothering me as much as it probably should.
They do look happy! She is even glowing now. I used to wonder about these two, but time has proven me wrong.
What are you smoking….?
Dan was cuter chubbier tbh.
Is that what it is? I wondered why my Dan Stevens crush withered and died somewhere along the way.
Dara, perhaps it was the asshat way he exited the very popular TV show that made him famous.
I wondered if he’s going to have a career trajectory like David Caruso, since I haven’t seen much about him since leaving DA.
Her hair though. That’s the worst part. That and her posture.
I’m starting to think a brush is her kryptonite.
+1
That’s bad styling, not bad hygiene. She’s got straight, flat hair, so they keep trying to bounce it up when it should be up or curled.
I like the hair. But the dress is one of the ugliest I’ve seen in a while.
She has very wispy hair so it must be a pain to style. But it doesn’t look bad.
…but those SHOES are a no-no…a simple, strappy heeled sandal would’ve helped the look.
i have fine, super straight hair so I sympathise. there aren’t many styles you can do with it.
A blunt bob should look good with that kind of hair, no?
yes and no. i tried it in the past, and it’s more or less always the same. it’s just crappy hair 😛 what works for me is NO layers whatsoever (SH has layers and shouldn’t) and highlights for some texture. but other than that there’s not much you can do.
Those Dalek shoes have got to go.
I have fine, very straight hair. I can’t live without layers. Layers upon layers.
I have lots of hair, but because it is so fine and soft without layers it looks very flat.
For a bob or anything you need longer hair and I cut mine short because otherwise the weight pulls it down and you again get that mousy flat look.
I think SH should just cut it shorter to give it more volume.
Is his head as gigantic as it appears? If he were a woman, he would be compared to a horse.
I got in trouble for this last time, but all i see with these two is brother and sister. They really look like they have the same parents.
Yup, he does have a pretty big head and it looks even bigger now because he’s lost a lot of weight.
He looks ill. Is he? Not being rude, that’s just a lot of weight loss.
I think this play is taking a lot out of him. If I starred in a big-name play every night that’s been receiving mixed reviews and then had to contend with a ton of fans every night AND ALSO had a newborn at home, I wouldn’t look like my usual self, either.
Hey, does anyone know if he gets a break before his next project? Or does he jump right into Doctor Strange?
His Hamlet run ends in October, and he starts filming Doctor Strange in November. After that its Sherlock for a couple of months I think. Thankfully most of his work will be in London because he will be crazy busy.
I’m looking forward to his Dr. Strange transformation. Hopefully he’ll be able to get back some of that Khan weight again.
Fug it’s not her colour. But she’s like Bendy no style.
Reviews r not that great. They’ve been slagging off the support cast. How dare they slate cirain hinds.
I agree. I love Ciaran Hinds! He’s a great actor so I don’t know how he can’t be doing a good job. I don’t think she looks good at all. I think she was trying too be different yet elegant but it didn’t come off well. That photo where they kiss looks weird and still not natural. How hard can kissing your spouse be? With all the photos they’ve taken, you think they’d be use to it by now.
It’s avant-garde kissing.
Kaiser, you missed the money shot of Bendy smashing his nose into Sophie! Of all the DM’s snaps that one was the most memorable.
It’s Turner getting the most heat, Cumberbatch getting a lot of praise. Hinds not talking loud enough was a complaint I’ve seen from other people but that is easily fixed.
That aside, for a different and accessible approach to a classic Shakespeare play, not something all critics love, they got better reviews than I anticipated with 4-star reviews from 4 big theater publications. I’m glad they took a risk instead of playing it safe, more interested in seeing it now. I was Hamlet-ed out.
That’s what I took from scanning reviews last night… Turner is getting most of the criticism and Ben did alright, but could have been better. People couldn’t hear some of the cast. I think Ophelia got good reviews across the board.
50/50 there. Some though Cumberbatch was outstanding (Telegraph, What’s On Stage, etc), others thought he was good but held back by some of the production elements and the way the play was cut (Guardian, NYT). Granted, those were the ones who didn’t like Turner’s direction and/or Devlin’s set design, so it’s fair as they would have been distracted by it naturally.
I respect Turner for not playing it safe, I must say.
Some of those reviews, negative and positive, got massive side-eye from me for some of the crap they pulled, including but not limited to: implying fans/women/non-Shakespearean people are unintelligent, the director should have been old and/or male, and whatever one that mentioned Cumberbatch’s political leanings. I’ve never seen so much inappropriate BS in theater reviews.
[Not sure if the Times critic pulled anything else. I know she praised Cumberbatch and upped the play’s rating, but not sure if she left fan insults in.]
i have not seen so much hyperbole for a half written production -they need to pull it back-and stop with the only Cumber batch can pull it off.
I am off to see Mark Rylance in Farinelli and the king and I have seen him do something very similar so until i see the satellite broadcast I am skeptical. I jut feel from the the moment the press fed the fan rush for tickets it has all been very tacky.Now Rylance is someone i have just spent 250 pounds on including hotels ,taxi’s but in the end i gave my Hamlet ticket a way as i was not well and not prepared to spend hotel and extra transport money from what i had heard from initial reports of the Cumberbitc
I keep seeing that the actors and Bendy were great overall, but that the set was overwhelming and one critic said turner’s direction was marked by “whimsical absurdity” if I remember correctly.
I’ve stopped taking notice of anything said or written about this production. It’s been one long, completely engineered piece of PR crap since day one. Manufactured controversies, ridiculous hyperbole. ANYTHING for an extra column inch. At this point, it’s beyond tacky.
I feel sorry for anyone nice with the misfortune to be involved in what’s turned out to be little more than a publicity juggernaut, completely overshadowing the actual production. And I don’t credit anything said about it, good or bad.
@Sixer – i couldn’t agree more. Its become the Bendy show and am sure he’s very good but i get very turned off when a show/whatever is promoted around an actor and not the story/production as a whole; particularly with Shakespeare as those plays are more famous than the people who act/direct/produce them.
This has been engineered to promote his image as the next Olivier, particularly after his epic Oscar fail its an ego boost for him. Otter King has lofty ambitions for himself.
Sixer – on that note, it amazes me is that Ciaran Hinds is in this, and I have barely heard his name mentioned.
Betti, Fanty (hello lovely!)
I’m inclined to blame the Barbican with Bendy as their vehicle, not really Bendy himself. And I definitely think Ciaran Hinds is one of the nice people. And what about Anastasia Hille – not even had a mention that I can see.
Same, Sixer. Looks more like it’s coming from the theater and the production company than him, with a side of the media running off on their own for the page hits. This just makes it harder for the cast, him included.
I’ve read mixed feedback on Hinds but praise for Hille.
Oh please. That’s what happens on most productions of HAMLET. I don’t recall the supporting cast getting a ton of ink when it was any other big name actor who played Hamlet. And that’s because Hamlet in the Hamlet production is what most people are there to see.
Neither the production nor Benedict can be faulted for how the press, with their click-bait articles, ran with this story. I don’t think they asked the press to relentlessly insult female and/or new theater fans. BTW, for a group of people who think so little of him, you guys sure do follow him intently, to say nothing of constantly posting on every article. At a certain point it stops being ‘gossip’ and becomes an ‘obsession’.
“BTW, for a group of people who think so little of him, you guys sure do follow him intently, to say nothing of constantly posting on every article. At a certain point it stops being ‘gossip’ and becomes an ‘obsession’.”
You don’t need to be obsessed with or think highly of a particular celeb to post regularly on their articles. There are PLENTY of comments, often with repeat posters, in the Josh Duggar, Kardashian and Bill Cosby articles.
Is there a Laertes in this production or do the deaths of Polonius and Ophelia go unavenged? Does Hamlet just prick his finger on a cursed spindle at the end? Is that the big dramatic change?
Agree that the hype from the Barbicon about this production has been insane. I do hope the Barbicon uses its profits to fund community outreach and arts education.
@Delorb, saw a nice production of Hamlet two years ago from the Globe theater. No idea who played Hamlet.
@Lilacflowers–was that the stripped down (only two and a half hours!) version created for the Globe-to-Globe? I’ve only seen pictures of Michael? Benz, the actor playing Hamlet. All I can say is, he looks Danish!
🙂
@TB, YES!!!! Thank you for providing me with his name. Michael Benz. He was quite good, a very energetic Hamlet, and I’ve got reason to be a bit jaded about Hamlets. As a young kid, my parents took me to see Hamlet at the American Repertory Theater here in Cambridge because everyone should be exposed to Hamlet, no matter how young we were for the material. I remember my dad was excited that Claudius was being played by a guy from Animal House but they had never seen the guy playing Hamlet in anything. Turned out it was Mark Rylance, who set my bar for Hamlet quite high. Later, they took me to see another version of Hamlet at the Huntington Repertory Theater, but this time they knew we were seeing Campbell Scott. And then, as an adult, on trip to London with friends, I saw Ben Whishaw’s Hamlet, which was amazing.
And yes, I’ve seen many of the filmed Hamlets.
The dress is very unflattering to her figure, but the colour is ok. Her shoes, however, are tragic.
The Daily Fail had a pic of Bendy giving her a peck on the cheek. He looked like he just sniffed a fart, and she looked like the one who farted.
I thought she looked okay, the color worked for her.
I rolled my eyes at people pointing her little tummy and saying she was pudgy. She just had a baby, ffs.
Except she was skinnier immediately after the baby than now. Her boobs were also much much smaller post baby than now.
I thought her boobs looked bigger now to me too, but I think it’s just the form fitting dress and a padded bra making that illusion of bustiness.
It’s bizarre to obsess over her body to this degree. Are the posters not female? Most women’s bodies change a lot depending on time of the month and what you’ve been eating. If she’s breastfeeding that would cause her shape to fluctuate wildly too. I can go from having a completely flat stomach to looking five months pregnant within one day, easily. Plus the outfits she’s picked before were designed to hide the stomach.
yawn at people still hating on those 2
Hating? Butthurt much?
I did not know bitching about celebs, on a site called Celebitchy, is disallowed. I can hear the sirens of the internet police wailing in the distance.
lmao no, not butthurt. i’m no fan of either. it’s just that the hate towards them as a couple is so booooooring. it was fun at first (like last year), now it’s just repetitive.
Well I wasn’t on CB last year. And I hardly ever comment on articles about her, so it is not repetitive to me. Although I get your point about some material being repetitive around here – like the drama about the Batfleck divorce. I just choose not to click on those articles.
Repetitive and bizarrely extreme at times, like they’re not the duggars
^^^^Different Alice. I have no comment on this thread.
It is amusing that articles on Sophie get literally x4 more comments than articles on BC.
At least the real crazies, the ones who firmly believe the marriage and pregnancy were both faked, and that Sophie is a drug addicted sex worker/criminal mastermind who’s blackmailing poor wickle Bennie into participating in a fraud for reasons unknown (and who has somehow managed to con the entire UK press and even the Church of England into going along with it) have left and gone back to Tumblr.
Fluff, and for that we can raise a glass and enjoy our OtterComet threads again.
Yeah, it is Celebitchy, but I see more nasty comments about this woman (compared to other posts) who nobody would really body shame or be so nasty about if they saw her on the street or at their kid’s school, pretty much because of who she married. Time will tell if it’s all fakery, but I think they look like your basic post-baby, tired-but-managing parents here.
I don’t hate it, yes the one sleeve thing is annoying and the shoes are all wrong for it. Mainly she doesn’t look all that comfortable in it, her posture is weird but then she’s just had a baby so she could be self conscious.
(there is a kissing picture in the DM and it’s a bit…weird)
It is weird. It’s another of those ones where she’s got her eyes closed (maybe more palatable that way?) and he’s not even puckering. It’s like he’s resting his face on the side of her face.
He’s exhausted. But it’s sweet the way he has his nose in her eye.
haha yes maybe after all the shows and stage doors, he was just too tired for the party and had a little nap on the side of her face.
“Too pooped to pucker” should be the new “Not tonight honey, I have a headache”.
Can Cumby just stahp with the PDA already? He’s just not good at it.
Thanks ladies, I’m now cleaning the coffee I spewed off of my computer screen!!
Every time I see her, I think she’s SamCam’s sister.
On a different note, I hate those Valentino shoes. It’s a pet peeve.
Oh my word, LAK! You are so right! The Comet is SamCam’s twin. Now you’ve said that, I can’t unsee it.
Could the Comet be a clone of SamCam? The plot thickens.
I also thought she looks quite like Princess Anne. Especially when she has her hair up like this:
http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article5212340.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Benedict-Cumberbatch-Sophie-Hunter.jpg
http://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/2015/02/22/119/n/1922398/f508ffed_edit_img_cover_file_14947482_1424653582_464162176_10j4TL0v.xxxlarge/i/Benedict-Cumberbatch-Sophie-Hunter-Oscars-2015.jpg
Bit Horsey? – cough cough
Haha, she does look like Princess Anne! There’s a picture out there where BC and Sophie meet her, and he looks like he just realized his wife looks like a younger version of the princess.
Yes, very much like Princess Anne!!! Unlike Kaiser, I like dresses with only one sleeve. I like orange dresses. I like asymmetrical dresses. I like “undone” hairstyles combined with “polished” ensembles. But I don’t think that she looks good here. Posture?? But, she has great skin, really glowing!
I can’t unsee this now and I think it’s the most accurate “she looks like…” so far
That’s it, that’s exactly who she looks like – not surprising given the level of inbreeding among that group of people, a lot of the women have a rather equine look about them! 🙂
Equine look….LOL!!!!!
Perfect description.
She looks great for having recently had a baby. I don’t love the outfit. I like her shoes but not with that dress.
That is a very difficult color to wear but I gotta say, she’s making it work.
But yeah, awful hemline. Though given who she married I suspect if she had been a perfect fashionista she’d have been pissed off at her spouse all the time.
I need to DVR the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Thanks for reminding me, Sophie.
A rock!
Hahaha!
You owe me restitution!
Were the men in a competition to determine who could look the most rumpled and randomly pulled together?
Of course darling! They are excessively creative, non – beardy hipster style, avant garde, highly sensitive and empathic with shed loads of emotional intelligence – but even so excessively well read -yet down with the ‘normals’ type of guys – making an effort to look their best at a public event would be ever so basic dontchaknow!
So, they’re all giant prats. Chocolate for everyone!
I’m glad they seem happy, but something about them bugs me. They have a smugness about them.
I get it – you are important artists and should be taken seriously, but it can be done in a classy way – Maggie Smith, Emma Watson, Alan Rickman – they do it right. These two are just obnoxious.
And the dress is ridiculous.
Not thrilled about the dress but it’s right up her alley. Her assesories are good though, shoes especially. Hair, meh. Her makeup game looks a bit off but that could just be the lighting.
I see a little tummy in that dress. I think she is pregnant again. I want say this just for fun.
You know how one of those hater blogs, Gator, kept submitting fake BIs to Entertainment Lawyer about Sophie being a junkie and stuff? But then kept posting on her blog like, “OOH, I hear Enty is going to have a great BI about Sophie being a junkie next week!”? I’m so tempted to submit a fake BI about her being pregnant again, just to mess with them. But then I remember that I’m not a sociopath.
Cumby just opened Hamlet, and there’s a post about Sophie? That’s not right.
Those shoes with that dress made me laugh, though. She puts the most God-awful things together.
EsCon, I thought the same thing. I figured we’d have a post on the mixed reviews that Hamlet Pushes 40 is getting. Most say it’s good, but not great. The director is getting poor marks and so is his supporting cast. And they can’t forget Rylance’s Hamlet, so Ben’s getting compared to him.
As far as Sophie’s dress, it’s a great color, but it doesn’t look good with her skin tone. She seems more of a summer/winter coloring. The shoes are nice, but not with that dress. She looked like she didn’t know how to stand on the red carpet. And that kiss he gave her looked as forced and awkward as it was during Oscar season.
I probably won’t be shelling out to see this on NT Live though. I’m not that crazy about Hemlet, especially if it’s not getting stellar reviews. I’ve got Ejiofor and Strong the next two weekends, so I’ll be happy with that.
Some think it’ll be amazing on screen, the set is just too big for stage, so I’m getting a ticket for NT. I prefer odd Shakespeare productions tho, and am not bothered by it being made accessible.
The hamlet pushes 40 thing would have punch if there weren’t so many old hamlets to begin with lol
Hi, Nutty!🙋 Know whose Hamlet I wish I could see? Ben Whishaw’s. I keep seeing references to it and he’s brilliant. I can imagine Hamlet would fit him very well. I will be going to see this at the cinema, though, because I love Hamlet and love Cumby. I am compelled!
So you’re seeing Everyman and A View from The Bridge? That sounds fabulous. I would love to see Chiwetel Ejiofor onstage. I’m still bitter about not getting to see his Othello.
OMG Escaped, I have been searching high and low for Whishaw’s Hamlet. I don’t think there are NTLive screenings? I found a few clips on Youtube but that’s about it.
@ Beth No. 2,
I know. It’s annoying not to be able to find it, when we keep hearing how great it was! I’ve never heard of any NT Live screenings either. Now I guess I’ll look at Youtube. Thanks for the tip!
I want to see Whishaw’s version too! Someone kindly pointed out the V&A (I think) museum in London has a filmed copy in their collection and you can make an appointment to view. I wonder if they let you bring in snacks and a comfy chair.
@Dara
I can’t be certain but you may be referring to the National Theatre Archive? The V&A is a design and decorative arts museum, but who knows, maybe they do have a copy of Whishaw’s Hamlet somewhere! 😀
@EscapedConvent
Those Youtube videos are sadly only short clips, about a minute or two in length. But they do give a sense of how he tackled the character.
@Beth No. @ – Not entirely sure where/how it can be viewed, but it is the V&A collection that has it, in partnership with the National Video Archive (is that the same as National Theatre Achive you mentioned?). A link on the V&A website brought me here…
http://catalogue.nal.vam.ac.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1355145J5N63B.527&profile=nal&uri=link=3100035~!2087970~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab114&menu=search&ri=2&source=~!horizon&term=Hamlet+%5Bvideorecording%5D+%2F&index=ALLTITL
@ Dara
Thanks for the link! So the V&A does have a copy of this production. And it seems it can only be viewed by making an appointment, as the helpsheet says: “Materials held at Blythe House cannot be requested via the catalogue as you
need to make an appointment to view this material.”
I’m assuming this V&A archive is different from the National Theatre archive I mentioned, as they have different addresses. 🙂
Random fact of the day: Many Shakespeare scholars peg Hamlet at 30 because of contextual evidence in the play. Casting him younger was something people started doing later because he seemed immature, but older characters in the play are also immature (ie. Claudius, Gertrude).
> Cumby just opened Hamlet, and there’s a post about Sophie?
There is an article about Hamlet 3 pages back, barely anyone cared to comment on it.
It looks like his wife attracts more attention.
I open articles about her just to read comments , it is a kind of guilty pleasure – what theory about her are they going to come with up now that would prove once and for all that she doesn’t deserve BC? It is strangely entertaining.
Well, I have a theory that she’s a succubus who, so far, has managed to suck ten years of Cumby’s life force out of him! He’s so gaunt now and if I were his Mum, I’d be worried.
It’s just a theory. 😒
@ Dara,
Oh, that would be wonderful. Its good to know that a Museum has it. But I wish so much that someone would put that on DVD and circulate it.
Forgive me for bringing up The Other Guy, but there’s a similar situation with Cheek by Jowl’s Cymbelline. An archive in NYC has the production on dvd, and it can be viewed by ‘scholars of theatre’ or some such.
I protest that both of those productions are not available to the rest of us to enjoy. If you’re lucky enough to be able to see it live, then pay the premium to do so if you can. The rest of us are SOL without NT Live & Digital Theatre.
We still have a long ways to go in getting award-winning theatre productions available to worldwide to all people, regardless of location or economic status. #artforall
There’s a post about Ben from a few hours earlier but it doesn’t have many comments.
She is frumpy.
It looks bad from head to toes.
I like the shoes. The dress is unflattering and why in hell didn’t she do something with her hair? It’s just hanging there all lank and dull.
Love the warm orange color of the dress on her.
Not a fan of these popular Valentino rockstud slingbacks; I prefer the block-heeled sandals version of it.
Her whole look has too many elements and none of it is cohesive. The dress is fug and not flattering on her in any way. Her make-up is nice but that’s all I can say she got right. They look uncomfortable. I don’t get a happy vibe off any of the pics I have seen from opening night.
Hideous. Those shoes with that dress…WTF.
No, it’s all wrong. Wrong length, wrong size, wrong colour, wrong shoes (Silvery shoes with a gold bangle? Really?). Her makeup is nice though a little heavy on the blusher/bronzer.
And they might be the happiest couple in the world, but they do take an awkward picture together. That kiss….Oof!
Not her best look. But she is still a very beautiful woman.
I like that she re-uses these expensive shoes. She seems to be a good match for Ben in that department.
Not her best look because I think she has fantastic style but I still think she looks beautiful. I do like her dress, hair, make-up. The shoes are OK, not horrible but ok
Not a fan of the dress but I think she’s very pretty.
She’s worn Osman before, that weird blue coat with the creepy hand appliqué at the airport.
Absolutely ghastly. Proportions awkward between bottom of dress and tops of shoes: the dress and shoes actually fight each other. Too much cloth with the extra sleeve, and a color that doesn’t play to her nice skin and coloring – in fact, it’s forced her to pile on brick-colored blush. She’s not short and she’s slim, but this does her figure no favors, either.
This is one of those instances wear the ensemble is wearing the woman, rather than the other way around. And her hair as always is a mess – she looks like she climbed into the dress as soon as she got back from grocery shopping.
I’m going to say something nice. Her skin is flawless.
There, done.
agree. I am envious of her glowing complexion
She does have nice skin but how can you tell with all that orange blush she had to pile on so the orange dress didn’t wash her out?!
She needs a stylist.
She…does not look good. She also looks like a mixture of smug/bored/rude. Her hair is also horrible. Ooof.
I don’t hate what she’s wearing. She’s pretty.
She will never dress well despite all the money. End of.
Why doesn’t she actually smile – she always seems to have a weird expression that borders between boredom and trying to keep a straight face, as if its all just a big joke that only she gets. Either that or she’s trying to be artsy.
i think she hides her teeth, and she has my sympathy there. dental work galore and mine still aren’t the stuff of dreams
Victoria beckham hates her teeth too—british are known for having bad teeth. I think she is also a bit awkward being in the spotlight. But that’s what she signed up for when they both were reckless!
Have you seen her teeth? Theyre frightening Gary Busey gnashers. Best keep her mouth closed.
I knew I would get a good laugh when I opened this thread!!
I feel like she’s wondering why the Media are caring about her. Benny’s movie, but she gets the pics.
Awww, you didn’t include the photo where Cumby kisses Soapy on the cheek and it looks like she’s going to throw up#
Hes more sniffing her eyelid. Maybe thats foreplay on his planet.
The biggest problem, like many have said, is the hair. It needs to be off her shoulders. A chignon, a ponytail, something, it doesn’t need to be complicated.
I would the like the shoes to have been 1/2inch higher to look well with this dress, but the what they are. I like them. That’s just nitpicking.
I LOVE orange!
I said that upthread, but it’s in moderation. She looked FANTASTIC at the Golden Globes with her hair up and with that classy dark blue Erdem dress. She looked soft and dainty. When she wears harsher colors like fire-engine red (Oscars) or the bright orange greco-roman styled numbers like here, she gets washed out and misses the mark sartorially-speaking.
Totes agree with this! Her fair coloring and blue eyes are much better served by black, dark blue, or softer colors or pastels – TBH she just doesn’t have the glamor to pull off the orange one-sleeve, gladiator pumps, and Amazon bracelet. I get she’s trying to put an “important” or “statement” outfit together for an important night, but she’s one of the women who should stick with classy instead, it looks better on her. She looked 100 times better at the BAFTAS in that black halter number and at the Globes in that dark blue flowered Erdem dress with her hair up. Her Oscar ensemble was nearly as bad as this one and her hair was a disaster at that, too.
If Cumby likes her that’s the main thing. It wouldn’t be my choice. This much orange doesn’t really look good on anybody, even given her tiny figure. Her skin is really really nice so that helps and its tone works with it. Just a whole lot of orange, though. Maybe I’m boring and like more subdued tones.
Have you guys seen the video Lainey put up of Sophie singing live, link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=154&v=WPOS0uYF1i8 (she’s at the beginning of the vid).
I can’t hear her very well – sounds a bit flat/off key in places but thats maybe cause the guitar is drowning her out.
The hair – it’s crying out for a style. Dress is too tight around the middle. I dig the shoes! I don’t mind the color. She’s just boring.
They look more and more like siblings. I guess that could be a sign of compatibility or synchronicity… but it creeps me out a little. I have nothing against either of them; the optics just creep me out.
They are just British, all British are related by this time. Small island.
eh, she’s no style icon but she looks ok. Especially for what, 3 months post-partum?
Not really getting the complaints about ‘too much’ of the orange or whatever, especially since it is a flattering colour on her. If even that is excessive, some of y’all would probably faint if you ever saw women in saris (even more brightly coloured than this, and way more fabric on display).
I actually really like the colour of the dress against her complexion, and I don’t even mind the sleeve, as I think it was well executed in design. I agree with everyone that the hem is horrendous. It would have been a much more impactful dress if they had cut the hem off straight at the knee imo. Her posture is not doing her any favours in these pictures, and it would have been nice to have her hair more sleek!
My sister is in her 30s and is just getting her teeth straightened. I never understood why she didn’t smile openly in pictures growing up, because she was never open about how embarrassing she considered her smile. Even with the braces now she is starting to smile more openly, and it is so fantastic that she is getting over this lifelong hurdle. So I can understand why Sophie doesn’t want to smile openly.
If she ditched the shoes for a pair of sneakers, she is ready for a Holland football match!
I saw her on an episode of Midsomer Murder – nothing special, imho.
Those busy shoes with that busy hemline = no. That busy sleeve = no. Her posture = no. The hair = no. The color = yes, lovely with her pretty complexion and eyes. Maybe she thinks stylists are needless, but someone good would make such a difference for her.
I said upthread I wasn’t going to comment, but, darn it, I like her lipstick color. I’ve liked all her lipsticks except at the Oscars – that whole get-up, dress, hair and make-up made her look like a 50 year old Wallis Simpson. I wish I knew what she uses as we have similar coloring.
I would Chanel Aggripine Nero’s mother and wear that dress with gold gladiator flat sandals,if I was SH. I think she is attractive. BC has regular guy look to me and he got a regular looking wife. If he was not famous, I think he would still get someone just like her. Nothing special!
Now that she seems to be more famous than her husband according to all those comments she gets on this site, I would drop him like a sack of potatoes and rule the world with my avant-garde greatness.
“Now that she seems to be more famous than her husband according to all those comments she gets on this site, I would drop him like a sack of potatoes and rule the world with my avant-garde greatness.”
Wait for it, wait for it . . .!
Does Sophie have teeth? Has anyone ever seen them? Can she make any other facial expression?
Yes, but it’s obvious she’s self-conscious about her smile, even though she’s gotten her teeth fixed (presumably after dating Ben). I can’t blame her though, i feel the same way about mine.
Her dress is VERY orange but it looks nice on her, it doesn’t drown out her face. I know I would never wear a dress like that though.