Does Julian Assange like being misunderstood? The WikiLeaks founder, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy since last June, is being portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch in the film Fifth Estate. The Londoner hears Cumberbatch is taking the role so seriously that he asked Assange for an audience in his Knightsbridge hideout so that he could study his subject at close quarters.
However, while Assange has courted celebrity in the past, with singers M.I.A. and Lady Gaga both visitors to the embassy inmate, Cumberbatch doesn’t seem to cut the mustard. His attempts were firmly rebuffed.
Assange has already given an early review of the Fifth Estate film, based on the book by Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding, at an Oxford Union address last week. Speaking by videolink, Assange said the film, produced by Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks, “is a lie upon lie”. “The movie is a massive propaganda attack on Wiki-Leaks and the character of my staff.”
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