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Benedict Cumberbatch talks about Sherlock and Martin Freeman

Interviewer: Sherlock, anyone knows Sherlock? Obviously, it has been wonderful, but you had said that being in Sherlock that was magic. Why do you think that?

BC: Um… It was a lot of things. It was Martin. It was a modern era take on it. It was Steven… first of all, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss took something they were obsessive fanboys over with total respect, and they crafted a modern version of it with huge (amount) details, hugely rewarding loyalty towards the original stories, but with a very witty plot twist. And I think it was also, you know, it was the dawn of Twitter, and this guy was on the internet, and John Watson was blogging. And I think there was a synchronicity where television became, you know, it was pre streaming. It was sort of a water-cooler moment made digital. And I think that's why it went global. And I, I don't know, maybe it was the part that had just been waiting for me at the right time as well. I just loved it. It was just a heck of a thing. And again, the mental geek a bit. He had to be in the digital space the equivalent of the computers. He had to have an AI speed so that he was speaking as fast as most people think, but very quickly. And that was an acting challenge, and also to some extent having him work on this character, how that fits in society now, where you have asexuals, autists, whatever those, you know, you know, whatever theories of those kinds of wonderful superpowers are, you know. And I think that spoke to a lot of people, that he had a superpower. And socially incredible also such a lot of people take pleasure of other people being vicariously rude or straight, or direct.

Interviewer: No filters for him.

BC: Yeah, no filters for Sherlock. And I think that is a part of his appealing. He's brilliant. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant mind.

Interviewer: What was the first time you walk around the street without being unnoticed?

BC: Oh, you know, it was a particular type of hair, which I don't normally have. You know, I have dark hair and I don't usually have it that long. When I just stepped out of some, you know, pre-production, it literally was that I'd go to the hairdressers and come out, dyed and with the shade, and people literally crack it and sort of, oh, Sherlock! It’s him. It was the first time. And I remember when we were making it, Martin was already very famous from the Office. And when we kind of spent time with each other, started all sorts of, you know, people would sort of go, oh, this is Tim Canterbury! ‘Yeah, yeah, I mean, he's being younger than me, doesn't he? Yeah, yeah…’ He just joked about it.

Interviewer: He's such a fun and nice guy.

BC: Yeah, he's great. He's very funny. One of the funniest human beings I've ever met. And just so inventive and brilliant. And he filled that role with so much nuances and care. He's a precision artist, he's technically brilliant, but he's also a musician I mean, he's got jazz in there as well as every other kind of music. He's wonderful to work with, and like I said, I think that was very early in my answer, that was a huge part of it - that chemistry - that I liked to be there really well.

A hilarious comment from a reader made me do this. The multi-chapter crack fic listed below is not the fault of the author who wrote it.

Yell at @ghostofnuggetspast instead. Not me. I was an innocent victim.

The comment that caused this:

John "Repression" Watson John "I refuse to admit what I want" Watson John "Punch you then date you" Watson John "I'm a doctor, let me check your tonsils" Watson John "I need to get laid so bad I imprint on people who knock me down" Watson John "Grumpy Bad Ass" Watson John "Come Closer So I Can Yell At You Properly, No, Closer. Closer" Watson John "No, don't knock me down and then lie on me. Why would I want that. Um." Watson

Can't wait to see where this is going. :) Thanks for the chapter!

The first chapter of the result of this comment is up!

How to Woo a Watson

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but thtast not all there's more! worst part of the dream was that i just HAD to be the first to post about tthis ofc so i took a picutre of the screen with my phoen and was trying to write a lil shitpost to go with it, yk like: how dare they do this now, we could have had ti all, etc.. but i couldn't upload the photo. because it was made of bread

Hello, I'm glad someone asked on my tumblr. No, I found it on twitter or tumblr (i forgot because is long time), I forgot the account of this gif make. But if you want that header, I'll be happy to post it✨️ (If anyone knows the source of this gif, please let me know. I will include the source of the gif maker)