So, Moffat posted this today
Lustful Martin
Touchy Martin
Pining Ben
“getting closer”
“notice me”
“offended”
“i’m fine, i’m fine”
“please notice me”
“alright, i’m not crying inside”
“pining in the distance”
Staring at each other when the other can’t see
Synchronized
This
Ben about Martin
Martin about Ben
“whether we like it or not…”
Looking like a couple
Ben waiting for Martin
Being silly
In a very platonic…
What?
WE ALL GO DOWN WITH SHIP
I want to follow all of the fucking Johnlock shippers. ALL OF THEM.
“Benedict and I do have this chemistry on-set, you know, that doesn’t even particularly have anything to do with good acting - even though, obviously, he’s a brilliant actor - but there’s something more personal about it, you know, it’s like love… Oh God, why did I phrase it that way?” - Martin “Although I really appreciate thousand of fans in Japan came to welcome me at the airport, the happiness because of what Martin said totally can beat that.” - Benedict
…..is that if you put someone in front of his movies or his TV shows, and making them watch everything back to back to back to back, and you don’t tell them that Benedict Cumberbatch is any of the roles, I can pretty much guarantee that they won’t realize it’s the same actor, And if you show them footage of BC just being….BC, they might not believe you.
He DISAPPEARS completely into his characters and it is so unsettling sometimes. He’s a chameleon and it’s just astonishing to be his fan sometimes, especially when you’re a filmholic like me and try to think about the craft rather than just the movie.
No two characters are alike, no two characters have the same manner, no two characters even have the same voice or pronunciation, no two characters even look alike, which is really weird when you think about it! Yes there are hundreds of other actors who do the body transformation thing (Tom Hardy, Christian Bale and Gary Oldman come to mind) but somehow with BC, the change is so profound that you can’t even track it unless you’re really paying attention.
He inhabits every single molecule of whatever character he’s playing, and he will leave you convinced that he is whatever character he’s playing. Actually, he convinces you that he’s not even playing a character, that he is that person.
Scroll down and think about the fact that ALL the following are played by the SAME actor– like REALLY think about that.
And then, the loveliness that is Benedict Cumberbatch himself <3
PS: Making this post, I can’t tell you how many characters I couldn’t remember simply because I didn’t remember that he played them? If that makes sense– like Chrissie!
This list is by no means comprehensive but just a smattering of characters that he’s played. Im currently watching him as Khan (because why not) and can’t believe that it’s Benedict Cumberbatch.
I just realized that in this godforsaken scene:
When Sherlock says “I think it could work”
He’s saying ”I think the name Sherlock Watson could work”
And then John, still laughing, realizes what he just heard and does a sort of puzzled look back up at Sherlock:
And Sherlock just:
And in conclusion, we’re not exactly looking at an aborted declaration of love.
Sherlock: did I stutter?
okay I can’t find any graphics of this moment, but I’m rewatching TSOT and when Sherlock says “uniform fetishist? all the nice girls like a solider...” and John corrects him with “its sailor” and ??? Sherlock literally loves a soldier, he made that Freudian slip on purpose I’m-
just saying if Dr Stephan Strange went through all those time lines there is no fucking way there wasn't a timeline where he and Tony were together .
Martin and Ben on Martin’s last day of The Hobbit filming…