Graham Norton last night

[Bewooohooove]

Benedict Cumberbatch

That is all.

I KNOW.

He seems a nice enough chap, but.....all the hormones gushing at the sound of his name on here - I just don't get it.

Bliss

Me neither. But I heart Gareth Malone and James Martin.

I have it taped. I have relatives staying so can't see it for a bit.

bliss.exactly.

I was never an an obsessive, but I did think him very attractive.
But God he loves himself, doesn't he? And he really seems to think he's some kind of genius, but he is mistaking wittering on for intelligence. He's believed his own hype, and lost his appeal, IMHO.

I cannot recall where in the interview he proclaimed his intelligence, he demonstrated he needed to be taught how to say penguin and a self deprecating story re stiffies.

I didn't really 'get' the BC hype, but I saw him last night and have to say he was rather yummy.

He's a good actor. However, He looks like Tin-Tin. And I think the self-deprecating comments are an affectation rather then genuine.

Er Meg, you sound quite defensive of him there!
My comment re his intelligence doesn't relate to gn, it's from other things. There was a recent interview for the Alan Turing film where he yammered on about his maths ability and how he found himself understanding complex quadratic equations, and he just sounded a massive twat. That is the example that is most fresh in my mind.

I was defending as I seen nothing you mentioned in last nights show. But as you are bringing in other interviews that's entirely up to you as all the world entitled to their own opinion.

I recently read a comment by one of BC's actor chums (may have been Dan Stevens), who was talking about all the hyper-intelligent characters BC has played. Sherlock, Hawking, Turing ... He said it goes to show what a great actor he is because in real life he's as thick as shit .

Tbh it isn't his brains that first attracted me