Benedict Cumberbatch

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(With help from alltheladiesyouhate and rotationalvelocitydensity)

• Compared autistic people to Frankenstein’s Monster while talking about his part as the Creature in a production of Frankenstein: “It’s basically being a man child, it’s being a man infant. And then, psychologically, Danny and Nick Dear, who’s adapted the Mary Shelley novel, into a brilliant 2 ½ hour play version of it, he, they both have autistic sons. So we went to two extraordinary schools and met some high spectrum autistic kids. And it was very, very humbling and amazing and very upsetting, but very, very extraordinary as well, and inspiring. And especially the people looking after them, and these amazing life forces, but just formed with…*sigh* um, socially just things that are outside of everyday.  You know, there are certain barriers that aren’t there because of the arrested development that… there was a 17 year old that had the mental age of, I think, an 18 month old. I mean, it was… It’s…it’s…it’s really really extraordinary and very upsetting. And uh, it was important for them to realize that the Creature in their story was not their… the monster of old… the monster of the gothic horror stories.  He’s very much an innocent.  He’s very much someone who is carried through life, as someone who is so different, not only because of his appearance, but because of these behaviorial tics, which are very autistic, um, both in his understanding of the world, psychologically and emotionally, but also physically as well, how that manifests later in his body. And so that was the major part of the preparation.” (Explanation/ analysis at the link)
• Said he had been “castigated as a moaning, rich, public-school b******, complaining about only getting posh roles”
• About the 2011 London riots: “ ”I’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road. But those eejits saying they’re doing it for socio-political reasons? Fuck off, no you’re not, you’re on a jolly and you’re getting away with it. It makes me want to belt them, make them lame for a bit so they’re dependent on other people’s mercy… It’s very hard for me to talk about it, because I came from an incredibly privileged bubble so the minute I open my mouth I can sense the comeback of, ‘What the fuck do you know?’ And that’s fair. But my sympathy is with the people who do know what they’re talking about, who have been brought up on estates and live morally decent, contributing lives and who have seen opportunists destroying all their work.“
  
• About Elementary, the American version of Sherlock ”I did say [to Jonny], ‘Well, I’d prefer you didn’t do it but you’ve got a kid to feed, a nice house in LA and a wife to keep in good clothes.’ When you get used to a certain standard of living and they waft a paycheck at you, what are you going to do?“
• “I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me.”
• “I know I’m no technical expert but I do love trying to sort of dance with the camera. And he knows I’m a tart for it”
• “Those slightly mad eyes which became sadly a lot madder which became part of the tragedy of Jeremy’s life”
• “Martin has much more intuitive brilliance than I have which would make him an asexual sociopath. Not that Martin Freeman is an asexual sociopath but he’s just far quicker at thinking than I am.”
• Said he thought Sherlock’s haircut was “womanly”
• “Being a posh actor in England, you can’t escape class-typing, from whatever side you look at it. I realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals” Wow that must be so hard for you Benny. You should go complain to some POC actors who can’t get work because of the massive racism and whitewashing in the entertainment industry. I’m sure they’ll feel really bad for you.
• About the Victoria Era: “Everyone was held in their place, but what was honourable about it was that there was a duty of care from the top down”. White Man’s Burden, anyone?
• “I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy”
• “In America I could play everything from trailer-trash to Harvard-educated”
• Recently performed a reading of R. Kelly’s “Genius,” a mockery designed to show the “absurdity” of the lyrics, which reinforces the class and race hierarchy.
• Misgendered Chelsea Manning in an interview with The Guardian 
• Defended Julian Assange and claimed the sexual assault charges against him were just “character defamation"