RE:Sophie Hunter. Do you really want to know? I’m not a nanny for SH or BC. I have tracked BC’s career since his first stage roles but wouldn’t see him or any actor in a project which didn’t interest me. However I did follow Sherlock Tumblrs and it was here I first came across skeptic blogs as they started posting in the tags I followed. Fandom has always had factions, divisions and hatreds but I was disturbed by the vilification of a woman who had chosen an artistically unconventional career for no reason I could see. I followed a few skeptic blogs and found a web of lies, misconceptions, misunderstandings of both UK culture and UK artistic life and true misogyny. Some blogs admitted to spreading lies and others invaded the privacy of BCs friends and family to a disturbing extent. And under all of this there was a complete hatred of SH – not just her looks, her work, and her marriage but also her friends, anyone who said they might have seen her with BC and her wider social circle.
Those same skeptics trashed every project SH was involved with even when respected reviewers in the field were positive, they built a career retrospective of complete failure and ridicule within the industry even when the facts and personal contacts in the field said something different. And that’s what causes me and other people to defend her. Not because she’s the greatest actress or director or curator in history, she isn’t. But because she’s a moderately talented artist who has had a decent career in a very hard field and who does not deserve to be slandered in this way. There is no need for those who are fans of BC’s work to even concern themselves with her. It’s easy to ignore the tiny mentions in interviews and just follow the work. This obsessive focus on SH and the hatred of everything she does is what causes people to defend her, without it some of her work would be mentioned if it was good regardless of who she was married to, other works wouldn’t except in specialist reviews. We defend her because her the venom turned on her is unjust and, especially those of us struggling to work in minority artistic fields, it shows a real ignorance of the field in which we work – ignorance which needs to be countered.
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Interesting.
So you feel that the only reason that, you, particularly, pay any attention to Sophie at all, is because the skeptic lambasted her. I have always tried to be fair in my reviews of what I have seen. I appreciate you being brave and sending in a response.Would you even be saying that if skeptic were less critical of her career that it would be brought up less.
Are you also saying that the people that we refer to as nannies and antis are simply ignoring the remarks about Sophie in the articles about Ben, while skeptics are the only ones that comment on them?
I appreciate your comments. It would be interesting to see if you are the only one who feels that way.
Interesting
Let me put it this way nonny, the “misconceptions” you talk about have been proven true by multiple sources and in some cases SH herself. I would concern myself more with my art if I were you and not with defending that pseudo-celeb’s misbehavior. There is too much evidence to ignore at this point, evidence that both her and many of her friends are deeply unpleasant people. People who see nothing wrong with engaging in unethical practices to get ahead. At no point have we said that everything SH has produced is bad. We have simply noted how over-inflated her meager body of work has been. We have heard again and again that her biggest issue is not her lack of talent as much as a visibly poor work ethic. The truth is that SH expects to get the lion’s share of recognition merely for showing up and delegating tasks to the truly competent. But that’s not all! She has the habit of soliciting non-articles in P2P publications. These either promote her or trash BC and SH even had the gall to plagiarize a female academic in The Guardian. Here is a woman who has built most of her public image on nothing but lies. Lies about her accomplishments, her character, her fashion sense etc. Highlighting that fact is not “misogyny” it’s truth-telling. You would do well to learn the difference…