Benedict Cumberbatch: Sophie is loyal & faithful and a great mum
We’ve come to the moment in Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange promotional tour where he goes full-on Alien Otter and begins to struggle when describing normal human emotions. It’s not his fault! On his home planet, it’s a compliment to tell people that your wife’s proudest achievement is having a baby. On his home planet, it’s not customary to gush about your baby or fatherhood or anything like that. He’s still learning, people! Give him a break! Benedict chatted with People Magazine about his wife and baby and he tried to approximate human emotion.
On his family: “So now I have a family of my own and it’s a joyous thing, it’s something that I’m so glad of, I’m very grateful for that, I really am. I’m very happy to have them in my life, very lucky as well.”
Not bringing work home: “We’re all still trying to get it right and we take the rough with the smooth and the smooth is delightful and intelligent and loyal and faithful and understanding and they get where I’m going and what life journey I’m on as well as my career choices. So I’m very grateful for them, my family, it’s remarkable, she’s a great mum, yeah, talking about it makes me a little homesick… yeah, work is work and home is always the roots and the safe harbor.”
His parents: “They are the first heroes I ever had in my life and I don’t mean that in a sappy way, it’s the truth,” he says. “They, despite whatever is ever made out about it, worked incredibly hard to be able to afford an education that in most circumstances you could only dream of and I was very aware of that. There were lean times as well as the feasts — I saw all the pitfalls of not being able to control your social calendar as much as your income or where you earn your income, the peripatetic nature of it all, whether it was touring or filming or whatever…I can only hope to be half as good [a parent] as they were to me, to my children. I have their example to follow so I’ll be doing something right if I am.”
He goes on and on about his own parents in a really eloquent way but he speaks about Sophie and Christopher like he just met them a few days ago. I’m being too judgy, I know. But seriously, “the smooth is delightful and intelligent and loyal and faithful and understanding and they get where I’m going and what life journey I’m on as well as my career choices.” What’s that again? I guess Sophie has a Brazilian bikini wax.
Meanwhile, Sherlock Season 4 finally has an air date here in America. The first episode will air on PBS Masterpiece on January 1st. And Benedict has already confirmed that there is ZERO chance that Tom Hiddleston will be joining the show as the long-lost Holmes boy.
And finally, here are some photos of Benedict and Tilda at the Berlin photocall for Doctor Strange on Wednesday. Is he wearing lipstick?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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