This Is Benedict Cumberbatch Day

by Nicole Cliffe · September 2, 2013

Benedict-Cumberbatch-benedict-cumberbatch-31816608-1280-854This is not a real day. It is Labor Day (hi, laborers!) and it is my thirty-first birthday (hi, me!) and in lieu of just completely ignoring you until tomorrow, Mallory agreed to let me devote a day to running random things about Benedict Cumberbatch.

She also wants me to be very clear that she has nothing to do with this and is only indulging me.

And it’s nothing, really. Like, if you want to talk about Mr. Cumberbatch, I am RIGHT HERE FOR YOU, and I’m going to dump some GIFs in a ten am post, and then at noon I’m showing you my Benedict fanfiction, and at one we have a piece about his Byronic charms by Laura Sook Duncombe, and that’s about it. Seriously, get on with your day. But if you have a Tumblr or know people who do, send them here.

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  4. DoctorJay +3

    I just saw a trailer about this: Apparently he is playing Julian Assange in an upcoming movie.

    2. TARDIStime +4

      I feel squicky about him playing an alleged rapist, too, but he DOES look perfect for the part of Assange. They both have that pale, Voldemort-hot thing going on.

  7. toast_and_jam +7

    Toasters who are in Toronto – we all know that Benedict has 3 films at TIFF, right? THREE!
    … Somehow I suspect I will be more well-dressed than usual while tooling around TIFF this week.

  10. Angharad +16

    C-batch has a profile in the September issue of Vogue, which I gigglingly transcribed and emailed to a certain someone: “With his piercing blue-green eyes, set high like an otter’s, cheekbones like car bumpers, and unruly mop of chestnut hair, Cumberbatch has the kind of looks that seem to call out across alpine mountaintops for the adjective Byronic.”

    The response I got: heissoamazingiwanttotouchhisweirdfaaaaaaaace

  11. carolita +5

    Love! He also looks like my creepiest ex, which makes it a bittersweet, slightly transgressive experience watching (and drooling over) him in Sherlock, etc.

  15. Lariope +4

    Happy Birthday, Nicole, and Happy Benedict Cumberbatch Day!!! I have been happily waiting for this for weeks.

  16. elsamac +2

    Happy birthday, Nicole! Happy Batchday, Benedict! And many happy returns of at least one of those.

  18. icebergmama +2

    I just finally watched Star Trek Into Darkness the other day and my god his faaaaaace it’s so much weirder than it is in Sherlock, but he’s so freaking great.

    Happy birthday Nicole!

  19. efish +1

    you forgot (everyone seems to forget) the bbc’s To the Ends of the Earth. 3 episodes of ultimate cumberbatchery, available on netflix. wheeeeeeee and happy birthday, you most amusing of amusers : -)

  20. 26hrcharleston +3

    Happy birthday, Nicole! I shall use this day for pious reflection upon the subject of Cumberbatch’s beauty, from the perspective of an individual who has not yet seen Sherlock. I still haven’t forgotten exclaiming, “That’s a funny looking extra!” at the beginning of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, only to discover it was Cumberbatch. There is such depth and complexity in his appearance…

  22. Angharad +10

    What I find so fascinating in film right now is that a whole batch of stage-trained, prestige British actors (Hiddleston, Hardy, Cumberbatch) are now doing big action superhero movies AND IT’S NOT CONSIDERED SLUMMING. Like, they enthusiastically promote the films and are very proud of their work. It’s not like Michael Caine doing Jaw 4, and openly spouting contempt for it. I think Harry Potter, and the quality with which they were cast and executed, made it legit for guys like Alan Rickman and Gary Oldman to do a kiddie genre film. This is a job for Anne Helen Peterson to deconstruct.

    Also, I seriously want Benedict Cumberbatch to marry Lily Cole and father a race of odd-looking but terrifyingly beautiful pale ginger children.

    1. thezlot +4

      Yes yes yes, I love this trend — every franchise needs its Prestige Actor now, and I am all about it. The X-Men legacy probably helps too, and started around the same time as the first HP movie.