When questioned about whether his comments were taken out of context in the Reader's Digest interview, Mr Cumberbatch confirmed that they had been. He reaffirmed that Downton Abbey was deserving of all the success that it's getting and that he would never speak ill of a production that employs so many of his friends and also his father [who was in the Christmas Special].
He added that the comment "was about one aspect about the comparisons between war" in Downton Abbey and Parade's End, "and I used language that I shouldn't have used."
Also - he is NOT moving to America and is bemused by the whole press war over the 'posh-bashing' comments; especially as he wasn't even in the country at the time.
"I've got absolutely nothing to complain about with type-casting. It's very easy to say something and for it to blow up into a national debate, especially with class. It's an important debate and it should continue. [Class is] inflammatory immediately and if someone has been *seen* to say something about *oh, us poor posh people...* that will vilify me as public enemy number one because I'm posh. I didn't *ever* say that. It was very bizarre. You have to just laugh it off."
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