Meryl Streep Shades Benedict Cumberbatch?! See What The Oscar Queen Said About Her August: Osage County Co-Star HERE!

PEREZ HILTON
January 18, 2014



Um…if Meryl Streep tells you to do something, you DO IT! That’s why we’re shocked to hear that when the 18-time Oscar nominee suggested that she and the entire cast of August: Osage County live together in an Oklahoma condo complex during filming, there was one famous hold-out!

Benedict Cumberbatch!

According to the awards season queen, the Sherlock actor decided he’d rather stay in a hotel than slum it with her, Julia Roberts, Abigail Breslin, and Ewan McGregor!

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Benedict Cumberbatch iPhone selfie landed him Meryl Streep movie August: Osage County

METRO
Emily Hewett
Showbiz reporter



Benedict Cumberbatch bagged a part in his latest movie August: Osage County after wooing the film’s director with a self-shot video.

John Wells – best known for his work on US TV series ER and The West Wing – had not heard of the Sherlock star until he received the amateur footage.

He said: ‘I have to confess I didn’t know Benedict’s work at all. He sent in a video – recorded on an iPhone – and he must have filmed it himself because you could see that it was being held at arm’s length, like a selfie.

‘We were sent the clip by his agent and I was really taken with his talent. It was a beautiful audition.

‘We auditioned several people after that but none of them had the warmth and humanity of Benedict in the part,’ he added to The Sun.

Benedict stars alongside the likes of Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper and Sam Shepard in the dark Oklahoma-set drama.

READ MORE HERE:http://metro.co.uk/2013/12/21/benedict-cumberbatch-selfie-landed-him-meryl-streep-movie-august-osage-county-4239235/

Benedict Cumberbatch: 'August: Osage County' Ensemble to Be Honored at Hollywood Film Awards (Exclusive)

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
8:00 AM PDT 10/7/2013 by Scott Feinberg

The cast of August: Osage County will receive the Hollywood Ensemble Acting Award at the 17th annual Hollywood Film Awards, the first awards show of the 2013 season, on Oct. 21 at the Beverly Hilton, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

John Wells' big-screen adaptation of Tracy Letts' Tony- and Puliter Prize-winning play features a star-studded cast, including Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Julianne Nicholson, Juliette Lewis, Dermot Mulroney, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Margo Martindale, Abigail Breslin, Sam Shepard and Misty Upham.

The film, which premiered at September's Toronto International Film Festival and will be released nationwide by The Weinstein Co. on Christmas Day, is a dramedy about intra-family chaos. It revolves around three sisters (Roberts, Lewis and Nicholson) and their significant others (McGregor, Mulroney and Cumberbatch), plus other relatives (Martindale, Cooper and Breslin), who reunite at the Oklahoma home of their mother (Streep) following the death of their father (Shepard), whereupon they air their grievances about how others present at the gathering have caused their lives to become terribly screwed up in one way or another. August's producers include George Clooney and Grant Heslov, who also produced last year's best picture Oscar winner, Argo.

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Colin Firth heads to Toronto film festival (photos)

Donna Freydkin

USA TODAY 

12:56 p.m. EDT July 23, 2013

With slightly more than one month left to go, we're getting a good idea of the big names slated to hit this year's Toronto film festival.

It's always a very fun and very star-studded week. The actor with what appear to be the most films this year is Benedict Cumberbatch.

The fun runs Sept. 5-15, and here's a few of the most high-profile films set to screen there:

The Fifth Estate, about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (starring Cumberbatch).

August: Osage County, about the most twisted family you've seen in years (starring Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Cumberbatch, Abigail Breslin, Sam Shepard and Chris Cooper).


READ MORE HERE: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2013/07/23/toronto-films/2578921/

Benedict Cumberbatch, Ewan McGregor, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep: First trailer for AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY

Benedict Cumberbatch Was In Awe Of Streep (FEMALE FIRST)

Benedict Cumberbatch admitted that he struggled to act alongside Meryl Streep when they did a scene together for their latest movie.

Speaking to the Press Association the actor said: "We had one scene around the table with Meryl and I just couldn't act. I was in awe of her.

"She is spellbinding to watch. She really is extraordinary. If you ever have the luck to watch her, she is fantastic."

Ewan McGregor, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Abigail Breslin and Juliette Lewis all star in the movie which is directed by John Wells.

READ MORE: http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/movies/movie-news/benedict-cumberbatch-284355.html

Benedict Cumberbatch: Filming of "August: Osage County" has Oklahomans on lookout for movie stars TULSA WORLD

By MICHAEL SMITH World Scene Writer Published: 9/29/2012  2:27 AM Last Modified: 9/29/2012  5:31 AM

PAWHUSKA - The bus pulls up to a curb in downtown Pawhuska. A slumped-shouldered man emerges, pulling on his suit jacket and approaching his father. The man is upset and apologetic ("I set the alarm," he tells his father). Their conversation concludes when the man breaks into tears and hugs his consoling father.

They repeat these actions for an hour, and after lunch, these men begin talking, crying and embracing many more times.

The man is Benedict Cumberbatch, an English actor best known for portraying a modern-day "Sherlock" on PBS. The father is Academy Award-winning actor Chris Cooper, one of Hollywood's best-known character actors in movies including "American Beauty" and "The Muppets."

The production is "August: Osage County," and on Friday the movie - based on Tulsa native Tracy Letts' award-winning play - filmed in Pawhuska, the county seat of Osage County. The past week has featured outdoor photography of multiple scenes, offering residents of Osage and Washington counties an occasional peek at the making of this major motion picture.

Soon the filming will move exclusively to a large home in Osage County near the Kansas state line for filming through November. The movie about a dysfunctional Oklahoma family also stars Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Juliette Lewis and Ewan McGregor, among others, but they were not involved in Friday's film shoot.

Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=283&articleid=20120929_282_D1_CUTLIN431593

Ewan McGregor boarding 'August: Osage County.' (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY) by Adam B. Vary

 Ewan McGregor is the latest A-lister to board the feature adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, as the estranged husband of Julia Roberts‘ character, the eldest daughter of family matriarch Violet Weston (Meryl Streep). Costars include Chris Cooper, Juliette Lewis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Abigail Breslin, Dermot Mulroney, and Margo Martindale. The only major character left to cast, in fact, is Violet’s middle daughter Ivy. Playwright Tracy Letts penned the adaptation himself. John Wells, best known as the showrunner of ER and The West Wing, is directing. [Variety]


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Benedict Cumberbatch in Talks to Join 'August: Osage County' (Exclusive) 6:30 PM PDT 8/23/2012 by Borys Kit (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

The "Sherlock" star will join Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts in TWC's adaptation of the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play.

Benedict Cumberbatch, the Emmy-nominated actor who stars on the BBC America’s Sherlock, is in negotiations to join the cast of August: Osage County, the Weinstein Co.’s adaptation of the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play.

The high-profile project counts Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts among its stars and George Clooney among its producers.


John Wells is directing the movie, which revolves around the women of a family whose lives have splintered in many directions until a crisis bring them back to their childhood home and to the dysfunctional woman (Streep) who raised them.

Cumberbatch will act as the sensitive son of Streep’s sister, Mattie Fay Aiken (Margo Martindale). She castigates and belittles the man, who believes his father is Charlie Aiken (Chris Cooper), but the truth is he’s the product of an affair.

The movie is eyeing a late-September start in Oklahoma.

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Brendan Gleeson In Robert Redford’s ‘The Company You Keep’

Deadline New York

The Guard star Brendan Gleeson has joined Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper, Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie, Brit Marling and Anna Kendrick in the Redford-directed The Company You Keep. Gleeson will next be seen opposite Glenn Close in Albert Nobbs, in the John Cusack-starrer The Raven, and with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds in the Daniel Espinosa-directed Safe House for Universal. He’s repped by Principal Entertainment and Ireland-based The Agency.