Benedict Cumberbatch on Richard III, Today – BBC Radio 4

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Ballsy:   Sorry,
what?  This has to be the worst bit of “new father" dropping
that BC has done throughout this whole fuckfest.
 

30 seconds in: 

“ suffered the desperation of child loss, with his very
beloved wife, and I think that is very well documented, it doesn’t, I don’t
know, I’m a new father so I guess I’m a
sucker for that kind of PR, if it is PR
, but he overcame a hell of a lot .
. . “ 

PR?   Child loss? 
PR?   We’re taking RIII here, an historical
figure.  PR?   What. 
The.  Fry?
 

Other than that, I do
have to say that I didn’t mind what he said about RIII – he was being quite
diplomatic and reasonably factual, sorta.  
And I do think this talk of “power” is going to keep coming up in the
promo. 

Shame about the
dreadful prosthetics.  The hunchback.  Him limping like one leg is a foot shorter.  And that withered arm thing.  And the whole … mention of child
murdering in the other promo (but it’s okay, he’s a sexy and charming child murdering psychopath – who doesn’t love that?!). 

It’s a shame that he’s giving the game away so blatantly…  I don’t think he was trying to remind folks he’s a father and has a totes real baby at home; I just think that currently babies and PR tactics are one and the same in his mind and that translated into “I’m a new father so I guess I’m a sucker for that kind of PR”.

A bit obvious that…

I totally agree…you first when you hear it you go ‘Whaaaat??? Babies? PR? Whaaaat??? Did he just say that???’ and then ‘Oh, he’s being weird again.’ …and than you go: ‘Oh, okay, he’s doing it because his mind connects the two now’…very-very sad.

I wonder how he will tie in being ‘a new father’ in the DS promo…

You mean, besides pap walks and bullshit stories about Eye of Agamoto teething rings?

Ballsy:  Well I’d prefer that to shoe-horning that he’s a father while talking about “child loss” being PR when initially asked a question about whether his character brutally murdered two children.  But maybe that’s just me.  Shrugs!

I still prefer the half-assed, fucked-up shilling to the shilling that looks polished and rehearsed. I mean, both are sad/hilarious, but at least with the half-assed kind, there’s room to believe in some kind of internal resistance that keeps gumming up the works, whether it’s there or not.

“New Father???????”  New?????  the lips the teeth the tip o’ the tongue.  Oops again.

It’s time for BC to get the tatoo “I’m an idiot” on his forehead.

I suggest an up arrow instead along with another tattoo on his ass that says “Insert Here”.

Benedict Cumberbatch on Richard III, Today – BBC Radio 4

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