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Benedict Cumberbatch, Channing Tatum  Eddie Redmayne, Ethan Hawke, Michael Keaton, and Timothy Spall for The Hollywood Report‘s new 2014 Actor Roundtable issue.

Passionate Kisses

Caption: Reese Witherspoon and Benedict Cumberbatch share a passionate kiss for The New York Times Magazine – Great Performers Issue, which features great performers sharing kisses!

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It took a bit of time to get the type off, so please give credit.

War of the Roses

Caption: Now is the winter of our discontent: Benedict films scenes as Richard III for BBC series The Hollow Crown: The War Of The Roses

On Set I – Bloodied

Benedict bloody and wet, films scenes as Richard III for BBC series The Hollow Crown: The War Of The Roses.

File Under: I Love Your Smile

Laying on my sofa in my den drugged to the hilt and sorry I haven’t been posting. I am having a bit of a health crisis. Lots of pain and the doctors don’t know what it is yet but I am hopeful they will find out what’s wrong soon.

i’ll try to post intermittently (like today) but if it gets any worst I may have to take a break because this pain is kicking my ass.

Still love Benedict and hope I can contribute to putting a smile on your faces on a more regular basis in the near future.

Daily Benedict

Benedict during his appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Dashing…Literally

He always looks so dashing when existing a car.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Edward Norton on Dealing With the 'Insanity' of Fame

Benedict Cumberbatch (“The Imitation Game”) & Edward Norton (“Birdman”)

Cumberbatch: I’m thrilled that what I’ve done is successful, and that it’s going well and people love it, but at the same time, the last thing I want to do is to sort of suffocate the space I had before to be able to do that. The perverse thing is that fame kind of drowns the air you need to create the thing that made you famous in the first place. You need your space; you need to be able to work at a ­certain pace — or just be an artist, really — rather than being famous. I’m still adjusting to finding my way around that.

Norton: Tennessee Williams wrote this essay called “The Catastrophe of Success.” And it’s sort of about, after “Glass Menagerie” or “Streetcar,” he had gone crazy. He found himself completely unable to write because of the amount of distraction. It’s actually a really beautiful essay about trying to recover your solitude. But it’s just such a different era now — the currency and the collateral and the mechanisms through which people talk about the work they do are so aggressive and fast-moving that they’ve almost changed the playbook.

Have you ever seen the Maysles Brothers’ documentary called “Meet Marlon Brando”? They followed Brando on a junket for a movie that he didn’t really like. And it’s this incredible portrait of a guy really, really trying to maintain a grounded authenticity through this completely insane process. You can learn a lot seeing what other people have gone through in a way.

Cumberbatch: Absolutely you can. I started to look to that a little bit. It’s really helpful to see how past masters have done it. Just understand that you can remain sane in the insanity of it all.

Awww, he's got his blue velvet Hobbit jacket on. Good luck charm, perhaps?

Caption: Benedict Cumberbatch looks so dapper while walking the red carpet at the premiere of his new movie The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies on Monday evening (December 1) at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, England.

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Benedict and Sophie on red carpet while arriving at the 2014 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards held at London Palladium on Sunday, November 30, 2014, in London, England.

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Greens

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Genius

Benedict's portrait by photographer Dan Winters for Time magazine's Genius issue on stands November 28, 2014.

Orignial image (bottom) size: 814 x 1089 at 300dpi

Cropped Image: 2195 x 3480 at 300dpi

Mad Hatter

Oscar Bound?

Caption: Director Morten Tyldum, actor Benedict Cumberbatch and actress Keira Knightley at the official Academy members screening of The Imitation Game on November 18, 2014 in New York City.

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