Here is Benedict Cumberbatch’s cover of The Big Issue, a UK publication that has been “relaunched” or something. This isn’t the first time Bendy has given a major interview to The Big Issue, and the editor even admitted that they just put him on the cover again because his issues always sell like crazy. I’m also including some photos of our Otter looking surprisingly dapper at the 2nd Annual Breakthrough Prize Awards held at NASA Ames research center on Sunday. These are the first post-haircut, post-Cumbercurl photos that I’ve genuinely liked. Cutting off the Cumbercurls was such a terrible mistake! Thankfully, he seems to be letting the bad haircut grow out. As for The Big Issue… there are some quotes. I’m not going to transcribe the whole thing (the bulk of it is about Alan Turing, much of which we’ve heard before), so here are some meager highlights:
When he was 32, he thought ‘more seismic things of adulthood would have come, including being a father.’
Talking about his private life: ‘It always come back to haunt me in strange ways. I have been judged for my relationships or for not being a father in the weirdest ways. All I’ll say is when it’s right, it’s right.’
Thoughts on life and ageing: “I’m starting to realize you can say no to things and it won’t all fall to pieces. I really want to do more, by which I mean less work and more of other things. I want to be more present for other people. As I get older I increasingly feel the need to step back, ask what I’m neglecting, what do other people need of me. I want to be more impulsive, to be able to suddenly go away for the weekend. Whenever I get the rare chance to be impulsive I grab it with both hands, which is why I do stupid things sometimes. Having said that, I don’t know how long I’ll ride a motorbike for, I’m sure if and when I become a dad I won’t want to do that anymore.”
[From The Big Issue, print edition]
Many of you are already picking apart his thoughts on impulsivity and how he does “stupid things sometimes.” Like, is he talking about proposing to Sophie explicitly? Was his engagement an impulsive, stupid thing? All I can say is that after reading the whole article – conducted a few weeks before his engagement announcement – it sounds more like a man who just learned his life is going to turn upside down by fatherhood. Yes, I think Sophie is pregnant. I thought it was just idle, somewhat insulting gossip last week – as in, “Oh, of course he proposed, she’s obviously pregnant because that’s the only reason he would propose so soon” – but now I’m kind of down with that theory. He’s not talking like a guy who has found the love of his life. He’s talking like a guy who got a girl pregnant and is trying to make the best out of the situation.
PS… MOAR Cumber to come… the LA premiere of TIG was last night, plus lots of new quotes. Stay tuned and no threadjacking.
Photos courtesy of WENN, The Big Issue.
Thanks to Cele Bitchy
