the current festival of toffery
Go here
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/parades-end-a-series-to-challenge-downton-8026636.html
to read the article in full by Gerald Gilbert which
casts interesting light on the ambitious Bimbo Cumberfloob and how he is attempting to be the next Posh Spice and be as famous as Persil Automatic. I would like to say I rest my case but it won't be the last time I'll be pointing out examples of this at odds with the appreciation of his fans. But remember you read it here first MONTHS AGO. I am also sorry that this is the way it is, because the talent isn't enough for his self worth, he wants to be a success by stepping on the necks of his fans. Shame.
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"I'm playing a really big game now," he says. "I'm going into studios to meet executives and heads of production and asking: 'What have you got on your slate?' and they say, 'This and this and this.' And you know there are five actors ahead of you who have first refusal, so there will be fallow periods now, but I can't afford another five months in the theatre or another big TV gig.
"I think it's time. I don't have any dependants. I'm interested in just playing the game a little bit, because it gives you a lot more choice. It gives you power and if you become indispensable to that machine it gives you a greater variety, which is what I always wanted. My career's always been about longevity - I've never wanted to be an adolescent flash in the pan. Brad Pitt, Clooney - they're in a really privileged position where they are the men who get film screen net [a share of box office receipts], and there are about five people in the world who can do that. They're great people to emulate as a business model."
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"I've got every single script I'm sent on my mobile," says Cumberbatch distractedly, pausing briefly in order to shake hands. "There is this amazing moment in episode two when Valentine (his lover in the story) asks, 'Why do you hate your country?' and he says, 'I don't. I love every field, every hedgerow. I just hate what's been done to this country; it's been taken over by moneylenders.' And basically he goes on to define his version of Toryism, which is feudalism really."
All this is delivered in a torrent familiar to anyone who knows Cumberbatch and his restless, super-charged mind - although comparisons to his most famous creation, BBC1's Sherlock Holmes, are unwelcome. "Because I talk a lot, probably because I'm nervous, I get pinned into the same mania bracket," he says.
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The Curse Of Sherlock is working well: the thing which has given him fame will prove his undoing as he rejects it.
I also have a bet with my youngest that he'll get his kit off in second ep of PE and we'll see everything, so old hat :(
