"In a taxi with…Benedict Cumberbatch"

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И ещё один портрет, сделанный для мартовского выпуска You Magazine (2008), то есть, вероятно, примерно в то же время (начало 2008 года).
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In a taxi with…Benedict Cumberbatch

In a taxi with…Benedict Cumberbatch

Despite the high-profile roles and Oscar-nominated movies, this actor prefers to remain ‘off the radar’
With distinctive blue eyes that bring instant recognition, Benedict Cumberbatch could be said to have the ‘Paul Newman effect’. And yet this 31-year-old, dressed in thrift-shop grunge, is rapidly becoming one of screenland’s most chameleonic stars - as seen in BBC2 drama Hawking, about renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, in Amazing Grace as William Pitt the Younger, and in the Bafta-winning and Oscar-nominated Atonement as callous Paul Marshall.
‘I’m lucky, I escape the radar - I can take the tube without too many weird looks, apart from one or two people who are clearly wondering whether I was at their cousin’s wedding,’ grins Benedict, when our cabbie, Colin from South End Green, picks him up from around the corner from the Hampstead flat Benedict has just bought with his actress girlfriend Olivia Poulet.
Such eyes would never need biometric ID of the kind that’s heavily featured in Benedict’s ambitious new political thriller, BBC1’s The Last Enemy, which depicts Britain as a paranoid police state. ‘I keep getting cast as scientists called Stephen - it’s slightly embarrassing,’ says Benedict, who plays a laboratory geek caught up in a surveillance nightmare. ‘Stephen is the most unlikely hero you could possibly imagine, who gets blown out of his hermetically sealed environment when he falls in love in a very real, physical, emotionally complex relationship,’ he adds.
And with his new role comes further good news, ladies, for Benedict will soon be showing us a lot more than his blue eyes on screen. Not only does he have graphic love scenes in The Last Enemy with Romanian actress Anamaria Marinca, who made her name in Channel 4’s Sex Traffic, but he also gets to bed Scarlett Johansson in the forthcoming movie The Other Boleyn Girl. Gosh, it’s tough when you’re heading for the top. Scarlett plays Mary Boleyn, sister and predecessor (in Henry VIII’s affections) of the ill-fated Anne, who is played by Natalie Portman. Benedict is Mary’s luckless husband, royally cuckolded by Henry.
And according to Benedict, the ‘does my bum look big in this?’ obsession is not confined to females. ‘It’s weird, you never get used to sex scenes,’ he says. ‘You are trying to protect the decency of the woman who is having to expose herself in front of a mainly male crew, but you feel self-conscious yourself as you hope the big screen won’t make your bum look even bigger. Scarlett was great, very droll and dry.’
An only child who, aged 13, made his acting debut as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Harrow School, Benedict admits he has started to fantasise about having his own family. He and Olivia, 29, met in a production of Amadeus at Manchester University and have been together ever since. ‘I would like to be a youngish dad, but I’m enjoying other people’s kids at the moment because I don’t want to jeopardise my career,’ says the busy Benedict, who adds that he loved the action-man ‘kiss-ass scenes’ in The Last Enemy and once borrowed his dad’s tuxedo to audition for James Bond in a computer game. ‘I certainly wouldn’t turn my nose up at a Hollywood blockbuster, although you give up so much of your freedom when you do these things,’ he says, as Colin drives us round some of Benedict’s favourite Hampstead landmarks, such as the Stag pub and the church where the soundtrack for Amazing Grace was recorded.
Sadly, there’s no time left to take up this affable actor’s invitation and stop at the Stag for a coffee; I’ll have to stare at him on screen instead. That Paul Newman effect is a very nice one to have- long may those blue eyes light up our lives.

(Из блога completelycumberbatched)