I Still Do Not Understand The Crush On Benedict Cumberbatch
Reportedly, the Doctor Strange star has fans so obsessed with him, they are stalkers.
In a new Vanity Fair profile, Benedict opens up about the aggressive obsession of some of his fans. Some people believe that his wife and child are fake, something dreamed up by a PR machine to hide the fact that he’s … what? Single? Gay? A big ole slut? The conspiracy theories are boundless.
Here’s what he had to say:
“I think really it’s to do with the idea that the ‘Internet’s boyfriend’ can’t actually belong to anyone else but the Internet. It’s impossible he belongs to anyone but me. And that’s what stalking is. That’s what obsessive, deluded, really scary behavior is.”
Fortunately, most of the attention is relatively harmless. Prior to his interview, he showed the reporter a random tweet from a fan — “Sometimes when I’m sad, I picture a shirtless Benedict Cumberbatch slowly eating an apple fritter. Try it!”
The actor seems modest about his appeal. “I don’t look at myself in the mirror and go, ‘Yeah, absolutely! I see what they’re saying!’ I see all my faults and everything that I’ve always seen as my faults.”
But then there’s the darker side of fandom. Last year a lady kept dropping by his home and tying red ribbons on things — she was eventually prohibited from contacting him.
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8 Comments
Absalom
October 10, 07:19? ? ? Please leave our Benedict Cum for us – leave him! ???
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Tichifierce
October 10, 22:51Benedict Cum! ???????
Mandy
October 10, 07:46A shirtless Benedict Cumberbatch? *pukes* Wouldn’t that be pasty white nonsense?
Drone
October 10, 08:10Red ribbons..
Hmmm..
I should try that.
Khaleesi
October 10, 15:02Hian! What’s to stalk about this random middle aged white man? He’s so random you could pass him in the streets of any European city without a second thought … Tchwwwww ..
Pink Panther
October 10, 18:05Lol. I was expecting this response from you.
Canis VY Majoris
October 10, 20:18His voice tho. It’s one of the sexiest in Hollywood at this time.
Colossus
October 12, 01:44I agree! His voice is simply man-divine