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I’m not completely sure why Benedict Cumberbatch is STILL hustling, considering the Oscar votes have been cast and the campaign is officially over, but here we are. We’re still being inundated with Bendy news. Maybe he just can’t help himself. Maybe it’s too late to pull back a bit. Maybe The Hustle Never Dies. So, let’s do some highlights from Today In Cumberbatch.

*I think these quotes might be from his TimesTalk and I just didn’t see this part, but Bendy was talking about how he almost used the stage name Benedict Carlton: “I started off as Benedict Carlton, which is my middle name, my grandfather’s name. Cumberbatch sounds like a fart in a bath…It is even funnier in an English accent. But an agent who was wiser than me told me it was a good name. People have had fun with it and they continue to!”

*He’s sort of a Buddhist: “I did teach in Tibet when I was younger. I was teaching English to Tibetan Buddhist monks at a monastery. I was in quarters with spiders. I was interested in Buddhism and I am still…very much so. It is very helpful.”

*Benedict’s best man was NOT Tom Hiddleston. The best man was a dude who goes by Judge Rinder. They were mates at Manchester University. Judge Rinder is like the Judge Judy of the UK, apparently. The Mirror also claims Benedict had two other non-famous groomsmen or best men or whatever.

*You can see the program for Bendy’s wedding here. You can see that Bendy’s father gave a reading and so did Sophie’s parents.

*Benedict’s slave-owning relatives practiced droit de seigneur and Benedict might be genetically part-black, and he might have black relatives all around the world. One of Benedict’s distance cousins told her story to The Daily Mail about her research into their mixed-race family.

And finally, I leave you with Bendy and Sophie in motion, arriving at LAX a few days ago. I don’t understand why Sophie doesn’t just wear a coat that fastens?

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