Cause there’s a whole lot of disgusting shit that happened AFTER this interview.
For, instance, he:
sold out his kid’s birth to counter bad press over the CBE.
sold out his kid’s christening just before the opening of Black Mass.
sold out his kid, with no attempt to hide him, on a staged pap walk, on the opening weekend of Black Mass.
sold out his kid with another staged pap walk just before Doctor Strange shooting in NYC
sold out his kid with a third staged pap walk during Doctor Strange shooting in NYC
That timing, though.
He has also:
encouraged speculation about his wife and the mother of his child by appearing indifferent and even uncomfortable with her in public (still happening).
pushed his wife and the mother of his child into a trash can at LAX.
forced his wife and the mother of his child into several documented instances of unwanted physical affection.
failed to show up and support his wife and the mother of his child in her professional efforts, such as the Eniskillen Beckett Festival, despite her consistent support for his work.
And when it comes down to it, all any of us were really asking for is that he stop selling the personal life and focus on the work. That’s it. Had he stopped selling it, no one would have had shit to say.
I can’t find it, but there’s also that classic quote about what he would supposedly do to paps if they were taking pictures of his child…
I know the one – would love to be able to find it again.
“If I had children I would be fiercely protective of them and they would get quite a shock as I would tell people to fuck off.”
Benedict Cumberbatch on his morals and privacy at Oz Comic Con
+ another, from reddit q&a:
“You can’t imagine fame. You can only ever see it from an outsider and comment on it with the rueful wisdom of a non participant. When it happens to you, it doesn’t matter what age or how, it is a very steep learning curve. The important thing to realize in all of it is that life is short, to protect the ones you love, and not expose yourself to too much abuse or narcissistic reflection gazing and move on. If fame affords me the type of ability to do the kind of work I’m being offered, who am I to complain about the downsides. It’s all relative. And this are obviously very high class problems. The way privacy becomes an every shrinking island is inevitable but also manageable and it doesn’t necessary have to get that way.” (source)
Allow me to rephrase this for you Benedict:
Life is too short to not protect your real loved ones and to expose yourself to abuse at the hands of a narcissistic navel gazer. You need to move on from this farce so that you don’t lose your fame along withthe ability to work in the industry.
Ironically BC has not betrayed his principles, at least not entirely. That would only be true if he were in a real marriage with a real family. This? Is little more than a work of PR fiction.
