Interview with the Fanpire Series 3: CumberbatchWeb CEO, Naomi Roper, explains the Birth of a Fansite and stereotyping “Swooning Cumberbitches”

Social Media Queen and Cumberbatch Guru, Naomi Roper, is one of the top females in the game. A hard working business woman by day, and a super sleuthing bloggerista by night. This internet equivalent of Super-Woman or dare I say, Beyonce, is a one woman stop and shop for all your Cumberbatch needs.  She answers over […]

Interview with the Fanpire Series 2: Sherlock and the United States of America

Welcome to our series 2 interviews with your favorite social media websites, where we at According to Benedict, try to get the inside scoop, tips, and other general inquires. This week’s subjects are the showrunners of the US Sherlockians page. Shannon and Rachel sit down and tell us exactly what it’s like to be a […]

Interview with the Fanpire Series 1: Two Benartists, Cécile and Pei, discuss Benedict, fan art and fandom

Welcome to our first segment in the interview series “Interview with the Fanpire” where we at According to Benedict have picked our followers favorite social media websites and contacted the artists and writers behind them so we  can know who exactly lies beyond the paint-brush and page. This week’s guests of honor are Cécile and Pei, […]

Music According to Benedict – “Can’t Keep It Inside” – August: Osage County

Lee GrothOlson had a dream job.  courtesy: cumberbuddy.tumblr.com A DREAM JOB.  Who? Lee GrothOlson What? A DREAM JOB How? Talent (and location – it’s not just important in real estate, you know.) Why? Benedict Cumberbatch NEEDED her.

Quote N° 4

“…reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.” Having worked in primary and elementary education for nearly a decade, I have to say one of the traits I admire most about Benedict Cumberbatch is his love of reading. […]

Music According to Benedict: “Hyperballad” by Björk

I have to be honest with you. When I first read Benedict’s Top Tunes on Two Paddocks, I didn’t notice anything particularly unusual – UNTIL he wrote about #8: “Hyperballad” by Björk. Americans might remember her for her awards show fashion sense more than her singing:  

“Safe, Strong – Yet Supple” – According to Benedict (…but “Why Dunlop?”)

Making the rounds on Twitter today was the news by Dunlop China announcing  a 2-year agreement with actor Benedict Cumberbatch to be their spokesperson, with a new ad campaign scheduled to debut in July. Print items feature a sophisticated and dapper image of the man known by Chinese fans as – wait for it – Curly Fu, (thanks to the […]

Music According to Benedict – “Sweet Thing” by Van Morrison

It’s been awhile since we checked the vintage vault for songs favored by Benedict Cumberbatch, hasn’t it? It’s not completely our fault, you know. He’s been a very busy man lately: filming in Boston with Johnny Depp and Erica McDermott as part of the Whitey Bulger biopic, Black Mass. supporting the Motor Neurone Disease & ALS Associations, asking fans […]

Alan Turing in the 21st century

“Alan Turing is not outwardly very sympathetic. He’s brilliant, but the way that Benedict Cumberbatch played him showed us these guys found the right level of vulnerability, genius and the arrogance of the character, too.” – Harvey Weinstein. Although Cumberbatch is known for playing intelligent characters and cheekily says himself that he’s a crowd pleaser, […]

A Helping Hand in Hope: ALS/MND Association – Benedict Cumberbatch Birthday Fund

  “It’s a terrifying prospect to have a completely functioning mind inside a body that locks you in, that keeps you stationary.” – Benedict Cumberbatch   http://vimeo.com/82024808     In 2013,  Vertigo Films released Hawking: A Brief History of Mine,  an authorized documentary about Stephen Hawking, the famous English theoretical physicist and cosmologist. The film opened […]