Martin Freeman At Dwarf Boot Camp, Preparing For The Filming Of The Hobbit.

Ha Ha!

Natalie Daradich and Vicki Noon acting crazy :)

This is something that’s on my mind for weeks now: Can we somehow prevent the media from using the term Cumberbitches? 

I can’t hear and read that word anymore and I think I’m not the only one.

I had to hear from some new collegues when they found out that im a fan of BC: Oh you are are Cumberbitch! I was not amused. And I don’t want to be called that at all!

Our "Strange" Encounter With Benedict Cumberbatch

Photo By: Z. Lee

My name is Rene Rosa and I’m one of the managers over at JHU Comic Books in Manhattan. I’ve had my fair share of cool run-ins, celebrity encounters and fanboy dream moments, but nothing prepared me for what happened on April 4th, 2016. Dr. Strange was filming on 32nd street, just mere feet away from our store’s door, and as I was working, my friend Z. Lee came by. (He’s the one that took the pictures you’ve been seeing all over the net.“) Well, during the day, the crew came in to check out the place because they were shocked to see a comic book store where they were filming. The bulk of the crew is based out of the UK and there are very few comic book stores there. They apologized a bunch of times about how the street was going to be mostly closed down for the bulk of the day for shooting and many of them came in to buy stuff. Seriously, these guys were incredibly nice and considerate. Then, at one point, one of the producers joked about how great it would be to have Benedict come into the store in costume. Of course, I didn’t know he was one of the producers, at the time. I told him that if he did, I would lose my damn mind.

Photo By: Rene Rosa It started to get really cold so many more of them started coming in and I told the PA that if ANYONE on the crew needed to use the bathroom, our door was open to them. A couple of hours later and in walks Dr. Strange. Everyone there was excited, laughing and couldn’t believe it. Benedict Cumberbatch was incredibly nice, gracious and he and I went back and forth with some banter for a little bit before he had to go right back out and shoot more scenes. He didn’t have time to do much more than shake hands, talk and take a few pictures, but we totally understood that and were lucky just to have him in! Z. decided a comparison picture was in order and handed him “The Oath.” I was able to get my picture with him and then he had to go. The whole thing lasted no more than a few minutes, but luckily we were able to get some pictures of it and the very few of us that were there have some unforgettable memories.

Photo By: Z. Lee

I don’t usually get star-struck, but it’s a different situation when one of the best actors of our time is standing before you in full costume, in your store, while filming the big-budget movie of a character you’ve loved since you were a small child. I felt like a 5 year-old.

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Okay, got the info that I have the second shift, which means that I can stay up late and have to work at 1:00 PM. I discovered that I can only write at night... 

It is more practical also, all of my friends in america are awake then ;)

Sometimes it's hard to live on the opposite end...

Soooo... come my writing muse, come to me! *waves her hands in summoning motions*  

I am watching The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

“Saw it 3 times already and it's great!”

1492 others are also watching The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on GetGlue.com

You know you are a Sherlock Fanfic addict when...

... you have pin tapped more than 4 tabs with different filters on your browser

... you stalk your in box for new updates

... you cry out in frustration when firefox deletes your pin tabs

... you are reading more than 3 different fics at once and know what happened in every one of them when you read updates that came in the same day

... you manage to read a 40k words fic in one night

There are many more things, but I ran out of words :D any thoughts?

Today Mr. Benedict Cumberbatch and Chiwetel Ejiofor and the crew members visited Shechen Monastery [x]

Thank you for that post!

Tim Roberts vs. the Cumberbatch Fandom: a long post

As you all probably have noticed already, a story about how a theatre worker named Tim Roberts got fired/quit for tweeting about Benedict Cumberbatch fans is spreading through the internet. I’ve noticed that some people seem to be taking his side, considering the fact that he has been fired/forced to quit to be an overreaction, or as he would like us to believe, a gross infringement of his free speech rights.

For a clarification, he wasn’t fired, or forced to quit. When faced with a private investigation from his employers, he decided to quit. Why do that if you have done nothing wrong? I’ll leave it out to you to decide.

But why did all this happened? As I’ve been told, he has deleted most of the “offensive” tweets about it, but according to him, this is the reason of all of his misfortunes:

He insists on pointing that this tweet, and only this tweet, is the only reason he got into trouble, and he says so several times on his timeline. If you didn’t know better, you would totally believe this guy’s story and considered it a gross miscarriage of justice, am I right? After all, that tweet is just an observation, that doesn’t contain any foul language. Just a criticism of the way some people behave during live theatre.

Except, dear old Tim isn’t being truthful. That’s not the tweet that got him into trouble. That’s not the reason his employers decided to do a review of his behaviour on social media. And that’s not the reason he decided it was best for him to quit before being investigated either. Dear Tim, being so completely tone-deaf about how incredibly gross, hateful and misogynistic his words are, has deleted some tweets, but the ones that are still on his timeline, will give you an idea of what kind of person he is, and why people got so riled up with his comments:

I am not going to insult your intelligence and point out the obvious. But let me tell you that he’s not the first person to get canned because of hateful speech (Remember Justine?).

Mr. Roberts seems to regard his current predicament as a great injustice, and as a sign that his freedom of speech has been thwarted. But the thing is, freedom of speech does not mean that you can spread hate and nobody has the right to challenge you. Freedom of speech means that you can say whatever you want (as he has rightly done), but it does not protect you from the consequences of your words. It does not mean that anybody who disagrees with you is a bully. And it certainly does not mean that your employers are weaklings that bow under the pressure of the public opinion. As Tim’s employers, the Really Useful Theatre company can be held accountable about the way he and all the people who work with them express themselves on social media. Tim’s words and unjustified attacks on female fans reflect very poorly on RUT, so it’s completely understandable that they would want to get to the bottom of the issue and sever ties with him immediately.

I’ve seen that Tim is not only orchestrating a campaign to tell his very biased side of the story by rewriting history on his Twitter, but he is also contacting members of the press. The Independent has fallen for his excuses, as you can see on their article. Tim has also contacted via his account the Evening Standard, the BBC programme Victoria LIVE, and The Sun, as you can see:

He’s also receiving the help of other like-minded individuals, but the way they are going about it is probably not helping that much Tim’s cause:

I will end up this very long post (sorry, I wanted to get this out of my chest and move on, this man is not worth my time) by pointing out that he is claiming he’s being bullied and threatened. And, he chose this to exemplify his claims:

Does that person sound like a troll to you? or a bully? Because to me it looks like Tim likes to dish on people, but when said people fight back, he cannot take it and starts crying about being the victim of bullies.

About Amanda, I think she simply does not know the whole story. If you go by what Tim says in his timeline, he is a completely innocent victim of evil Cumberfans, just like Amanda and Ben’s wife (according to him, that is). I hope she decides to take a closer look to his timeline and realizes who this guy really is.

ETA:

Thank you to all the people who is sending me links and screencaps to the original tweets that were deleted. The internet never forgets, Tim!

In my opinion one of the best and hilarious scenes ever!

Sherlock and Dr Watson learn BSL from a Hearing Dogs tutor

Read our BSL tutor's experience of teaching Sherlock actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman sign language in Sherlock: The Abominable Bride special

“Meeting Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman

“Benedict (and his famous cheekbones) was suffering from a bad cold, but he sat down and got straight on with it. He was really interested in BSL and asked intelligent questions about how signs are created, and about people signing the wrong thing by mistake.

“A few weeks later, Anna and I sat in Martin’s comfortable kitchen and he made us a cup of tea and learnt his lines in BSL. We then watched him mixing up a bowl of food for one of his dogs. It was a very frosty morning and his children were running in and out with pieces of ice and frosted leaves to show him. It was so normal and homely.  Martin picked up BSL remarkably quickly – unlike his character Dr Watson.”