Benedict Cumberbatch is not the “problem child” some fans want to make out of him…
So, Benedict is laughing about his sex symbol status and now some fans trying to interprete his quotes in today’s SUN to make him look like some emotional wreck who has to be protected from the bad world. It’s making me sick, so I had to write it down…
Some “fans” put much too much broody thoughts into those things…
I bet Benedict is absolutely comfortable with himself, and the fact that he doesn’t think of himself as “the sexiest man in the world” makes him even more sexy. Really really fucking sexy. Because men who know that they are sexy are an unparalleled turn-off.
People who know Benedict can report that he’s always been one of the cool guys - in school, in university etc. - and so you don’t have to think of him as some poor nerd who’s fraud with problems. I’m absolutely sure that he’s always been a lady’s man, men like him just are. And that makes the fact that he’s been in a relationship with a woman for 12 years at a young age ridiculously sexy… nothing is sexier than consistency in a man…
He might not match some simpler ideals of beauty - I mean, he’s no Channing Tatum or Chris Pine with their small noses and perfect teeth - but, dear God, he is a fucking attractive man with beautiful eyes, beautiful hair, beautiful skin, a fantastic body, a breathtaking voice… I could go on and on… and everybody who has ever seen him in person knows that. Women who meet him in person fall for him on the spot, it’s just this aura he has. He dosn’t need perfect teeth or a tan or an average face to appeal… It’s just him BEING, that’s enough to make people weak in their knees, women AND men…
It’s ridiculous that people think he has no self-esteem because he giggles about being called the sexiest man alive. I bet even Brad Pitt giggles about his status as a sex symbol - and I bet Angelina Jolie giggles about it, too. A healthy person with good judgement just has to giggle when confronted with a ridiculous title like that.
Benedict just has a healthy self-image. He doesn’t need titles like “sexiest man alive” to be self-conscious, unlike people like Ryan Reynolds, who pay People’s magazine money to get on their list.
Benedict knows who he is, he knows he has a great talent and a bigger brain then 90 % of humanity, and you just can read from his body language that he’s abolutely in peace with the world and himself. Just look at him on that BAFTA stage on sunday, he oozes charisma and self-confidence. He may have been told he’s not attractive enough for certain roles by some stupid agents or casting directors with no balls, but he is intelligent enough to know what that means: that he’s not average looking enough. In the movie world, beautiful means everything average - and boring. Benedict is many things, but he is not average, not in a single way. Some people may find that unattractive or scary or repelling, people like Benedict make them uncomfortable because his looks doesn’t fit in their simple world view full of shallow daytime TV beauty and his skills as an actor and big brains and beautiful character are too much for them to handle - but most people find a man like him interesting and fanciable. People who count.
Thousands of thousands of women want to see him in those roles he didn’t get in the past, in romantic dramas or comedies, and now he owns the status to get those roles - and he WILL get them. So stop trying to make him look like some ugly duckling. He is not.
He is one of the most beautiful men I have ever seen, and I don’t just say that because I’m a devoted fan. I saw him on my telly as Sherlock, I didn’t know him, and I thought “Oh God, what a fantastic, expressive face”. I fell in love with his face on the spot, not with his voice or his talent, or his brains - with his fucking beautiful face.
I know a lot of men who want to be like him, look like him, walk like him, talk like him. He is perfect mancrush material: virile, tall, strong, handsome without being too cute… who owns a “real” body, with “real” muscles, a body men can identify with… who has humour and a heart and who says what he wants. Many many many men want to be like Benedict Cumberbatch, and that’s sexy, too…
There may be people who don’t see that, there may be MANY people even, but that doesn’t make Benedict unattractive. It makes him FUCKING INTERESTING. Fascinating, mesmerizing. He is a human being that leaves noone cold. THAT is star quality.
So stop pitying him or transfering your own psychological problems to him. If you are looking for some tortured creature to fangirl over, take the late Michael Jackson or something. Leave Benedict alone. He is born to be a star, he is gorgeous, he is brilliant, he has it all - he just isn’t your vain average Hollywood star who needs to see himself in every tabloid to feel loved. Live with it.
