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Here are some photos of Keira Knightley and Benedict Cumberbatch at Monday evening’s TimesTalk, a discussion sponsored by the NYT and TIFF. They were there to talk about The Imitation Game and Alan Turing, obviously, although they did talk about a few personal things too. Fashion note: Keira’s dress is Alexander Lewis. Here’s the video of the TimesTalk:

It’s so long, I’ll admit that I just skipped around but around the 45 minute mark, Benedict and Keira started talking about the paparazzi. I liked Benedict here because he just sat back and let Keira talk passionately about feminism and ingrained misogyny in tabloid culture. Keira talked about when she was younger and being under paparazzi surveillance, saying:

“Having 20 to 30 men who you don’t know on a 24-hour surveillance outside your house calling you a ‘whore’ every time you leave the door to try to get a reaction from you is quite a difficult thing to deal with. It was a time when there was a lot of money for pictures of women crying or of women in some state of undress. You’d walk down the street and you’d have men trying to get under your skirt to take pictures up your skirt and all the time calling you a ‘whore’ or all the time spitting at you or all the time trying to get a reaction from the guy you were with because it would make the price of that photograph quadruple.”

Cumberbatch summed up it pretty well when he said, “It’s just disgusting behavior.”

Fortunately, Knightley said things are “completely different” for her now.

“I think there’s a certain point where you get married, you get pregnant and they’re like, ‘Hey, she’s not going out and getting drunk,’” said Knightley, who is expecting her and hubby James Righton’s first baby. “I think there is a level that you grow out of it.”

[From E! News]

She goes on for a while past that and it’s all pretty interesting. Then around the 50 minute mark, the moderator says to Bendy, “Congratulations, your personal life has changed recently.” Benedict jokingly says, “Has it?” And looks sort of sheepish and happy. He’s asked if it feels like his crazy fandom has started to “ebb” and he says “I’m going to stick around” and that he wants to keep acting “into my dotage.” He also says: “I’m not interested in being the man of the moment, I’m interested in longevity…. Ebbing, who cares?”

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