Here are some photos of Benedict Cumberbatch at this week’s photocall for Doctor Strange And The Multiverse Of Madness in London. Marvel organized this mirrored setpiece to appear on the carpet, and Bendy had a lot of fun posing on it. He wore blue and yellow for Ukraine at the photocall, and while he promoted the movie, he spoke about how a family of Ukrainian refugees is coming to live with him, in his London home, very soon.
Benedict Cumberbatch has told Sky News he is waiting for a Ukrainian family to arrive in the UK to live at his property after joining the scheme to rehouse refugees here.
“They’ve made it out of Ukraine, I’m monitoring their progress every day,” Cumberbatch explained. “Sadly, they are undergoing some medical treatment – to say anything more about that would be invasion of their privacy and too much about when they’re coming and how that’s being managed would invade mine – but I want to give them some stability after the turmoil that they’ve experienced, and that’s within my home.”
The star also revealed he’s been helping other people whose loved ones are fleeing Ukraine with the cost of housing them in the UK. “I’ve been trying to help other Ukrainian families – nationals that are UK citizens – to house their extended families en masse, which you know they want to do, but it’s very costly. So, I’ve been trying to help out with that financially in a couple of instances.”
The actor also says that while the practical help being offered by people in the UK is brilliant, there is still more to be done. “I’m working through a wonderful charity called Refugees at Home, which is a great gateway to the government scheme, but also to offering further wider support that’s needed for the psychological trauma that these people are suffering from. However gentle and generous and welcoming we are as hosts, we don’t have the skills of the mental health professions to necessarily deal with those things. I would urge people to seek out further help to bolster their efforts, and people are doing an amazing amount – it makes me very proud, very, very proud of our country and very proud of what we can be at our best as a human race.”
That’s really great and admirable. I was under the impression that Benedict and Sophie still lived at Benedict’s smaller place in London – as in, maybe there’s not room?? – but I bet with three Cumberbatch kids, Benedict and Sophie upgraded to a larger place at some point in recent years. Benedict’s action in housing refugees will normalize it and encourage other people to open up their homes as well, and for those people who still want to do something, Benedict is right, there are already charities and groups which need financial support. Good for him.
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They have three kids now? I must have missed that news…
But good for them for doing what they can, doing more than just giving money! (Not anything wrong with that if you don’t have the means for anything more).
Apparently they have three sons now but I missed the news too. Maybe it was a lockdown pregnancy so kind of low key?
If I’m not mistaken, the third pregnancy was confirmed around the time the Grinch premiered. There wasn’t much, if anything, said about it after the initial confirmation.
He has a lot of crazy fans, including a whole squad devoted to maintaining the fiction that his wedding was faked, his wife’s pregnancies were faked, and that the children they’ve been photographed with are hired actors. He is being wise to keep his family very private.
Good point.
I applaud him!
That is awesome. He looks great in these photos, too.
That’s good of him. Imagine coming downstairs in the morning and Benedict Cumberbatch is there in his bathrobe with bedhead making you some scrambled eggs.
Be still my heart!
Please please please with the Sherlock curls.
As much as I’d like to believe that this is great and admirable, I do have a hard time believing that he will house then in the home in which he is actually living. I suspect he has other properties that he also calls home and will be offering that to the refugees.
Even if that’s the case, it would still be great and admirable. Imagine going through the chaos, stress, and trauma of fleeing your home country—without knowing where you’ll land—and then ending up in a safe, calm, supportive, well-appointed home (with or without the host family actively living in the same space). I can only imagine what a massive relief and blessing that would be. No question about it for me: It’s great and admirable, no matter what the details are.
Totally agree DeeSea, he doesn’t need to physically be there himself for it to be great and admirable.
Absolutely!
He is able to afford to give them the privacy of a home and I ain’t gonna yell at him about that.
Honestly, I think I’d find living in the same space as a famous actor a bit overwhelming and would much rather be put up at a secondary property! As long as it’s in decent condition and all that.
Good for him for leading by example. Too bad the folks who should be an example to his country just cannot find room for refugees in their 20 properties.
That’s amazing.
I’m glad he’s doing this. I seem to remember years ago that he said something in an interview that people should put up homeless refugees (sorry I’m too lazy to go look up the specifics) and people got on his case asking why ‘everyone’ should do it, if he wasn’t doing it himself. At the time, his home was undergoing renovations and that was his reasoning/excuse. He actually seems to have learned quite a bit from that experience – he sounds much less like he’s lecturing other people what they should be doing, and just relating what he’s doing, while acknowledging that he’s able to do as much because he does have the resources to do it. I’m pretty impressed by his growth on this topic, to be honest.
Good for him, and good for the family.
It’s wonderful to give financial assistance to UK nationals with Ukrainian family members to support the latter. These UK-based family members will have all the desire to help and the social skills to help them transition to being in the UK, but don’t necessarily have the cash to feed them, clothe them, handle the extra bills, etc. Love this.
The contrast between the reception given to European refugees and those from elsewhere is nauseating.
That’s right.
Couldn’t agree more.