Benedict Cumberbatch is already in Toronto for TIFF. He will premiere and promote The Imitation Game there, after not bothering to show up for Telluride. These are photos of Benedict at the InStyle party on Saturday night. The scraggly ginger beard is not really giving me a fever. I don’t know, you guys. I usually love some facial hair on a guy (Tom Hardy, Hiddleston, Brad Pitt, Jon Hamm, etc). But I think Benedict might be one of the few men out there who cannot pull off facial hair. Some of you say that the beard is for Richard III. Hm. Also: the hat is terrible. Benny and his curl-covers. God help us all.
Benny also sat down with The Daily Beast for a rather EPIC interview about Alan Turing, homophobia, ISIS and a lot more. The interview is long and there’s a lot of NSFW language, but it’s a good read. I’m not sure why Benedict feels the need to chime in about every hot-button political issue (including internal American politics), but you can read the full thing here.
A few more things… Yahoo News spoke to Cumby at TIFF and they talked about the casting on Hamlet next year. Apparently, they still don’t have an Ophelia. The Yahoo person said that Jessica Chastain had recently mentioned that she’d always wanted to play Ophelia and Cumby was super-jazzed about the idea. That would be interesting in real life – Cumby and Jessica Chastain? She could secret-girlfriend him properly. Last thing: Cumby took part in the newest UK Stand Up to Cancer promo ad. It features Cumby in a denim shirt, running. Enjoy.
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