'That's not nice!' Benedict Cumberbatch defends Keira Knightley in joint interview

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By: Kirsty McCormack
Published: Wed, September 17, 2014



The 38-year-old was clearly annoyed when David Poland took it upon himself to tell Keira she appeared "a little worn out" and couldn't help but retaliate.

As the Hollywood stars had their make-up touched up, Benedict told David: "That's not a nice thing to say to one of the most beautiful women on the planet," before Keira added: "Yeah, f*** you!"

David then proceeded to tell the 'Atonement' star that she had "a little Morticia Adams thing going on there", implying that she looked pale.

Keira, who was wearing a pretty white lace dress which was adorned with black polka dots, admitted that she looked tired because she hadn't eaten.

"I'm just basically really hungry. It's like hunger range that's about to come out in this nasty demon," she explained, before putting on a child's voice as if she was crying.

"I know that no one thinks i do eat but I do need food every now and then," she added, as Benedict laughed beside her.

The pair were promoting their new film 'The Imitation Game', which is a historical thriller film about British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist Alan Turing.

The film centres on Alan and his team of code-breakers at Britain's top secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, in breaking the German's infamous Enigma codes during the Second World War.

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Benedict Cumberbatch: Sherlock takes his Hamlet to the big screen

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By BAZ BAMIGBOYE
PUBLISHED: 17:06 EST, 28 August 2014 | UPDATED: 17:21 EST, 28 August 2014

From stage to film: Benedict Cumberbatch (left), who will star as Hamlet at London's Barbican and pictured above with Keira Knightley in The Imitation Game - he plays Alan Turing, the man who cracked the Nazi Enigma

Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch is in talks to bring his stage Hamlet to the screen. The play begins performances at the Barbican next year, and negotiations for it to be filmed live and shown in cinemas through National Theatre Live for one night are well advanced.

The actor, along with the production’s director Lyndsey Turner and producer Sonia Friedman, has spent more than a year ensuring that this will be a ‘people’s Hamlet’.

‘I felt very strongly that as wide an audience as possible should have access to it,’ Cumberbatch told me.

The Barbican’s allocation of seats for the entire 12-week run, which starts on August 5 next year, have been snapped up already.

But there will be 100 seats available per performance. ‘They will be sprinkled throughout the house . . . they’re not behind pillars,’ the 38-year-old joked.

He said that he and Ms Turner were eager to make their Hamlet as ‘fresh’ as possible, ‘like a new play that just landed as a pdf in someone’s computer inbox at the Royal Court’, as he described it.

‘We want to escape the idea that it has been done before, and we’re looking at the whole play — not just the eponymous hero.’

Benedict is a thespian polymath. There’s no role he cannot take on.

We had met to discuss another of his projects: a towering portrait — one of the great performances of the year — of Alan Turing, the man who helped break the Nazi’s Enigma code, in the film The Imitation Game.

Watching the movie, I was struck by his approach to Turing: the way he grasped and captured the man, not just the cliched genius. The film is all the more heartbreaking because of it.


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VIDEO: Benedict Cumberbatch as genius codebreaker Alan Turing

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By Western Gazette - Yeovil  |  Posted: January 25, 2014



The first image has been released and now there’s a chance to hear how Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch will sound as genius codebreaker Alan Turing.

He will be playing the Sherborne educated mathematician in The Imitation Game, due to be released later this year and which was partially filmed in the Dorset town.

The Imitation Game's Twitter page has provided a link to this short video clip in which Cumberbatch reads a letter from Alan Turing to his friend and fellow mathematician Norman Routledge. Turing wrote the letter shortly before his court appearance for gross indecency and although he remarks that he should one day write a short story about the incident, signing it "yours in distress".

The reading came during the Letters Live event in London in which a spectacular array of actors, authors and musicians, read out "correspondence deserving of a wider audience” alongside musical performances. Those taking part included Gillian Anderson, Matt Berry, Nick Cave, Neil Gaiman, Thandie Newton, Peter Serafinowicz and Juliet Stevenson.

Dr Turing was recently given a posthumous royal pardon for a 61-year-old conviction for homosexual activity.

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Benedict Cumberbatch spotted filming The Imitation Game in London

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Nov 4th 2013, 10:40  | By Francesca Menato

Benedict Cumberbatch delighted fans and students in London yesterday when he was spotted filming for his latest film The Imitation Game.

He was seen cycling in character as the man behind the Enigma machine, Alan Turing.

Local students got to Twitter to post snaps of the famous actor outside their Library in north London.

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DOWNTON ABBEY's Allen Leech Joins Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley in THE IMITATION GAME

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Justin Kroll

Film Reporter

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013; 09:08 PM 

Pic is being helmed by “Headhunters” director Morten Tyldum with Teddy Schwarzman’s Black Bear Pictures financing.

Script topped the 2011 Black List and is based on the life story of mathematician Alan Turing, the genius responsible for cracking the German “Enigma Code” during World War II that helped the Allies stave off defeat, and who would later be prosecuted by Britain in the early 1950s for being a homosexual.

Leech will play a Scottish spy for the Soviets who plots against Cumberbatch’s character.

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Benedict Cumberbatch comes to Bletchley Park (MK WEB NEWS)

Keira Knightley in the latest offering from Hollywood, based here at Bletchley Park.

Cumberbatch is set to play Bletchley Park mathematician Alan Turning to follow his story and his work on the Enigma code during World War II. The film will also examine Turing’s role in breaking the Enigma cipher as well as the treatment he received after revealing his homosexuality in 1952.

Cumberbatch was born on July 19th 1976 in London and is the son of two actors, Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch and Wanda Ventham.

After a successful time at school, which also saw him act in plenty of school plays, Cumberbatch took a gap year to teach English in a Tibetian monastery before enrolling at University of Manchester to study drama.

Since 2001, Cumberbatch has a variety of major roles in theatre, television and film including roles in Heartbeat, Spooks and Silent Witness as well as playing Stephen Hawking in the award winning Hawking. He has also starred as Sherlock Holmes in the ongoing successful television series Sherlock since 2010.

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Keira Knightley Set To Star With Benedict Cumberbatch In ‘The Imitation Game’ (THE GLOBAL DISPATCH) BY Stephen Nevets

Reports confirm that Keira Knightley is set to star opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in director Morten Tyldum’s (Headhunters) The Imitation Game.

With Cumberbatch in the lead role, Knightley would play “a woman from a very conservative background who not only forms a complicated relationship with Turing but is there for him until the end,” according to THR.

Deadline adds “This is the 2011 Black List script that originally got set at Warner Bros with Leonardo DiCaprio expected to star. In what seems shocking today, the hero was forced to make a radical choice, and he chose chemical castration over prison. He was so demoralized that he eventually committed suicide by eating a cyanide-laced apple. Black Bear is fully financing.”

The story centers on a brilliant British mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing, and his breaking of the German enigma code at the end of World War II, his prosecution by his own government for being a homosexual and his resulting suicide.

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Keira Knightley in talks to co-star with Benedict Cumberbatch in biopic of Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing (INDEPENDENT)

Keira Knightley looks set to join Benedict Cumberbatch in a film based on the life of ground-breaking mathematician and Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing.

The Atonement actress is in talks to play a woman who forms a “complicated relationship” with the code-breaker, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Although details are yet to be released, it is likely that the part Knightley is being touted for is that of Joan Clarke, Turing’s co-worker in Hut 8 at Bletchley Park, a good friend to whom he proposed marriage in 1941.

Graham Moore's screenplay, The Imitation Game, has been commissioned by Black Bear Pictures with Headhunters with Sherlock star Cumberbatch lined up to play Turing.

Turing, who was gay, apparently told Clarke, a fellow mathematician and cryptanalyst, about his sexual preference. But Clarke was “unfazed” by her fiancée’s homosexuality, according to Andrew Hodges’ biography, Alan Turing: The Enigma.

However, Turing decided he could not go through with the marriage and the pair remained good friends until his death.

The mathematician is famed for writing the first blueprint for modern computing. He also invented an electromagnetic machine called the 'bombe' which formed the basis for deciphering Germany’s Enigma codes during the war.

The work Turing and his team did at Bletchley Park has been credited with shortening World War II by as many as two years, but it is only six decades after his death that Turing’s contribution is beginning to be fully acknowledged .

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Benedict Cumberbatch steps into DiCaprio's shoes as Alan Turing (Deep Inside HollywoodBy Romeo San Vicente)

It's turning into Benedict Cumberbatch's year at the movies. Co-starring in "The Hobbit" trilogy, "Star Trek Into Darkness" and the film adaptation of "August: Osage County" will put the acclaimed, chameleonic British actor on multiplex screens stateside for the foreseeable future. And now he's in talks to star in "The Imitation Game" as famed British World War II hero Alan Turing (quick history lesson: Turing cracked the German "Enigma" code during the war, helping Allied forces win; he was prosecuted in the 1950s for homosexuality and chose chemical castration over imprisonment, later committing suicide)


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Benedict Cumberbatch In Talks for Role That Screams ‘Oscar’ By Kevin Wicks | Posted on Friday, February 1st, 2013 (BBC AMERICA)

Benedict Cumberbatch at the 2013 Golden Globes. (Photo: John Shearer/Invision/AP)

Benedict Cumberbatch may not be done Hoovering up all of the choice roles in Hollywood just yet. According to Deadline, Sherlock star is reportedly eyeing a real-life part that has Oscar written all over it, English mathematician Alan Turing in The Imitation Game. Leonardo DiCaprio once voiced interest in playing the genius who was tormented by the British government over his homosexuality, but the project has been in limbo since 2011. Now, Mortem Tyldum is attached to direct.


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Benedict Cumberbatch 'in talks to play Alan Turing' the Enigma codebreaker MATILDA BATTERSBY FRIDAY 01 FEBRUARY 2013 (INDEPENDENT)

Benedict Cumberbatch who is currently playing Julian Assange in Wikileaks film The Fifth Estate looks set to bag another high profile real-life character.

The Sherlock actor is in talks to play Bletchley Park codebreaker and mathematician Alan Turing according to a report in Deadline.

Graham Moore's screenplay The Imitation Game has been commissioned by Black Bear Pictures with Headhunters' Morten Tyldum signed up to direct.

Turing is widely hailed as responsible for cracking the Enigma Code which greatly helped British naval efforts during the Second World War. Also known for what is regarded as the first blue print for modern computing, Turing's heroic wartime activities were not revealed to his family or the world until after his death.

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