Browse journals by subject. Accept. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Cover Story: The Mind- Bending Benedict Cumberbatch. When Benedict Cumberbatch was 1. Himalayas. No longer a schoolboy in tailcoat and boater, not yet the. Sherlock and one of the world’s most. A- level exams and Sunday chapel. In a hillside town near Darjeeling, he taught English to Tibetan monks. On weekends off, he would seek adventure. Watch Movies Online at BoxTV.com. Watch all your favourite Movies online and TV shows online at BoxTV.com. Watch Full Episodes of Your Favourite TV Shows and Watch. Royal Enfield have finally launched the 411cc Himlayan adventure bike but are still insisting the bike will only be sold in the domestic Indian market for now. The. Valley of Flowers is a vibrant and splendid national park reposing in West Himalayas. Nestled in Uttarakhand, this alluring place is famous for its charming meadows. When Benedict Cumberbatch was 19 years old, he got good and lost in the Himalayas. No longer a schoolboy in tailcoat and boater, not yet the internationally known. Watch breaking news videos, viral videos and original video clips on CNN.com. Kali Gandaki River, traversing the desert. Rajasthan. (It was monsoon season everywhere else.) But the. So he and three friends caught a bus from Kathmandu. Sherpas were. expensive, and they were students traveling on the cheap, so they. Altitude sickness derailed them. By the third night, Cumberbatch recalls, “I started to have really. I. wasn’t sure if I was conscious or awake.”He and his friend reached a spiritual fork in the road, which happened. They chose up. And that’s. They ran out of. biscuits. They drank rainwater squeezed out of moss, because they’d read. As night fell, with their flashlights. Turns out it was an abandoned barn. They threw themselves belly- down on. That night, they had even more fucked- up. But when they woke up, there was no one. VIDEO: Watch Benedict Cumberbatch Perform Magic. The next morning, they followed the river, hoping it would lead to. They nearly broke their necks slipping down moss- covered. The alpine fog gave way to forest, and leeches stuck to their. They found a path with fresh yak droppings: a good sign. Finally, the trees thinned, and they came to a clearing of terraced. The Sound of. Music. Running toward the inhabitants, they mimed the international sign. Cumberbatch immediately got dysentery.“Ah,” the actor sighs 2. Cumberbatch is recounting this tale in the lobby of Shutters on the. Beach, a five- star hotel in Santa Monica. He’s been staying here all. Doctor Strange, the reportedly $1. Marvel’s more mind- bending superheroes. He tosses. his sunglasses and trilby on the table, then reclines on a. T- shirt and trousers, gazing. It’s. 1. 1 A. M., and he’s working on no sleep. Seriously, none. He was out shooting an exterior nighttime sequence. It’s probably, hours- wise, the craziest day’s. I’ve ever, ever done,” he says over an. A tiny sparrow has flown into the hotel lobby and is. He offers a very English disclaimer: “Fluidity, accuracy. I don’t. really know who I am.”Full Screen. Photos: 1/5. The Cover Shoot: Benedict Cumberbatch Bends Minds. The actor rolls up his sleeve. Photo: Photograph by Jason Bell. Styled by Jessica Diehl. HERO IN RECLINEBenedict Cumberbatch, photographed in the Metropolitan Building in Long Island City, New York. Photo: Photograph by Jason Bell. Styled by Jessica Diehl. DARK SIDEA contemplative Cumberbatch, photographed in Long Island City. Photo: Photograph by Jason Bell. Styled by Jessica Diehl. WALKING THE LINECumberbatch, beneath elevated subway tracks in Long Island City. Photo: Photograph by Jason Bell. Styled by Jessica Diehl. Photo: Photograph by Jason Bell. Styled by Jessica Diehl. Previous. Next. And yet he proceeds to talk in a “Flight of the Bumblebee” sprint. Sherlock Holmes briskly deconstructing a crime scene. Why, it’s. obvious.”) On- screen, Cumberbatch’s motormouthed precision and. If he’s been. pigeonholed, it’s for playing socially challenged geniuses, people who. World War II code breaker Alan Turing (in. The Imitation Game, for which he was nominated for an Oscar in 2. Wiki. Leaks mastermind Julian Assange (The Fifth Estate), and, of. Sherlock, whom he’s played since 2. BBC. series. Of Memes and Ben. Being Benedict Cumberbatch means living under a magnifying glass, like a. Sherlock’s gaze. Nearly everything he does is. Some call themselves Cumberbitches. Or, slightly more P. C. (but. not much), Cumberbabes. Perhaps it’s his accentuated Britishness—that. Dickensian name, that Brontëan pallor—that renders him a kind of. If Laurence. Olivier had lived in the age of Tumblr, he might have been the. Internet’s boyfriend,” too. A good chunk of the Web is now devoted to Cumbergazing, or. Cumberfantasizing, or straight- up Cumberstalking. The @Cumberbitches. Twitter account, dedicated to “the appreciation of the high cheekboned. Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch,” has. There’s a bustling Cumberbitch group on Reddit, which. Throw. Batch Thursdays.” Biography. Essential Qualities of a Cumberbitch,” which include holding “an. Cumber- ology.” In 2. The London. Review of Books published a poem in which the author imagines meeting. Cumberbatch at a party. He’s huge in China, where fans refer to Holmes. Watson as Curly Fu and Peanut. A baker in Indonesia makes. CUMBERBATCH’S OWN CURIOUS APPEAL IS PART MR. DARCY, PART CYBORG. AND. YET HE ISN’T A DRAG. The Cumberfrenzy can be traced to July 2. Sherlock aired in the U. K., watched by 7. Twitter. went berserk. Something about Sherlock’s sexlessness—his nearly. Or the right man: the series is. Sherlock and John Watson, played by a cutely. Martin Freeman. Forums of erotic “Johnlock” fan fiction have. From a story called “First Times”: “All it. They couldn’t. hold back anymore. John had stopped, mid- breath, and then his lips were. Sherlock’s.”)Cumberbatch greets the fan deluge—some of it creative, some of it. On my way to meet him in Santa. Monica, I check online for the latest haul. A Twitter user has posted. Sometimes when I’m sad I picture a shirtless Benedict Cumberbatch. Try it!”When I read this to Cumberbatch, he blushes on cue and says, “Have you. It wouldn’t work for me.” He laughs, a little uneasily. I’m glad I’m bringing a ray of sunshine to an otherwise dull day. But, I don’t know, it makes me. I don’t look at myself in the mirror and go, ‘Yeah, absolutely! I see what they’re saying!’ I see all my faults and everything that I’ve. HERO IN RECLINEBenedict Cumberbatch, photographed in the Metropolitan Building in Long Island City, New York. Photograph by Jason Bell. Styled by Jessica Diehl. Strange Days. Of course, not all the attention is so benevolent. Obsession breeds. Last year, Cumberbatch. Sophie Hunter, and they had a son. Christopher (nicknamed Kit). There are people who believe that my wife. P. R. stunt and my child is a P. R. stunt,” he says, unsure if he. I think really it’s to do with the idea that the. Internet’s boyfriend’ can’t actually belong to anyone else but the. Internet. It’s impossible he belongs to anyone but me. And that’s what. stalking is. That’s what obsessive, deluded, really scary behavior is.”Doctor Strange will surely add to the hysteria. The film, which opens. November 4, will do little to dispel Cumberbatch’s reputation as the. As he’s quick to point out, he also enjoys. Little. Charles in August: Osage County.) Created in 1. Marvel. team that concocted Spider- Man, Doctor Stephen Vincent Strange is a. Desperate to regain his skills and the material luxuries they. Kamar- Taj, where he meets a. Ancient One, played by Tilda Swinton. Trained in the. mystic arts, he is reborn, in Cumberbatch’s description, as “the. So much for out- and- out dummies. If his brainiac roles have defined him, he insists that’s just because. They’re the characters that people. He might as. well be describing his own curious appeal: part Mr. Darcy, part cyborg. And yet he isn’t a drag. Benedict is an extremely nice person to work. Swinton says. “Engaged, quick- witted, enthusiastic, kind and. Swinton’s. casting has drawn accusations of whitewashing, since the character in. Asian man.)Cumberbatch is no comic- book geek, though he has trod in fantastical. Khan (another superhuman!) in. Star Trek into Darkness. When some journalists at a Star Trek event told. Doctor Strange, he replied. Doctor What?” He was “lukewarm” about the material at first. Cold War science. Orientalist pulp. But it put him in the mind of his. The Tao of Physics and searching for. A GOOD CHUNK OF THE WEB IS NOW DEVOTED TO CUMBERGAZING, OR. CUMBERFANTASIZING. And so, last fall, Cumberbatch caught a plane to Kathmandu, two days. Hamlet at London’s Barbican. Centre. (Advance tickets sold out within hours, leaving salivating fans. It was six months after the Nepalese. Himalayas. This time, he was the. The first few days, he and the cameras passed through the city. Strange’s “desperate caveman” look: scraggly. We did a lot of guerrilla stuff, just. Cumberbatch recalls. The day he arrived, he. Shooting atop the Monkey Temple, he watched. Tibetan women wandering around the central stupa with the. It was enchanted, peaceful. But. then word got out, and the crew was ambushed by locals with cameras. Benedict! Benedict!”—or, more often, “Sherlock! Sherlock!”“There were throngs of people,” recalls Chiwetel Ejiofor, his co- star. Doctor Strange and 1. Years a Slave. “I didn’t know that Sherlock. Kathmandu, but apparently I was wrong.” At one. You. Tube—Cumberbatch stuck his bearded face out of. Lalitpur’s Patan Durbar Square and waved to the. Say cheese!” are underscored by a distinctly female. Time ran the headline TURNS OUT BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH CAN’T. GO ANYWHERE. Actors’ Actor. Nothing from his upbringing suggested that his chosen craft would. He grew up in Kensington, the only. Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham, both working actors who made. British sitcoms. (Timothy Carlton. Cumberbatch” from his stage name, thinking it too fussy. His son, after starting his career as Benedict Carlton, did the. Ventham, who has a daughter from a. UFO and. the BBC comedy Only Fools and Horses. She was a stunner. Whenever they. wanted a glamour girl or someone rather beautiful, they wheeled in. Wanda,” says her longtime acquaintance Una Stubbs, who now plays. Sherlock’s doddering landlady, Mrs. Hudson; Stubbs recalls running into. Ventham on the street and gossiping as four- year- old Benedict tugged at. Through his parents, he observed the profession’s ups and downs: “I saw. I saw when they were ticking along nicely. Dragged to see his mother in yet another chintzy. Feydeau farce, he would sniff, “If I see another one of those, I’m. Nevertheless, his parents worked doubly. Harrow, the elite boarding school. His paternal. grandmother helped with tuition.) Harrow was “obscenely pampering and. Cecil Beaton and Winston. Churchill—and as the son of actors he didn’t always fit in among the.
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