Recalling his run-in with the Madonna, 55, the Star Trek actor quipped: ‘She said, “You’re the one with the strange name”. I said, “Yes, I am, Madonna”.

Haha! :-P

I wonder if they re-used parts of older interviews. This thing about people thinking they know him from what is spread over the media? And the reasons why he cannot find a partner? I am prepared to wait fort the whole interview but I hope it is not recycled stuff once again. I suppose it is not really funny to read about your unsuccessful love life and your strange name and your posh upbringing again and again. 

Well, that's classic Sherlock Holmes, I suppose. Minus the deerstalker. 

It is a over the top for my taste. The suit might look quite good, but the coat … not my cup of tea. And let me ask again: Why are they hiding him under all those garments? Because it's winter? 

The more he tries to get rid of stereotypes the more he establishes them himself just by talking about it and denying it again and again in interviews.
The photo doesn't help either.


 

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The more he tries to get rid of stereotypes the more he establishes them himself just by talking about it and denying it again and again in interviews.
The photo doesn't help either.


 

But then he is asked the same things over and over again. Or do you think he dictates the questions in his interviews? 
I am getting tired of the name, the school, the Bitches, and also the Alan Rickman imitations. This may be interesting for some time but they should stop asking and requesting that. It was such a relief to read the wonderful interview Gary Oldman did with him. Or listening when he talks to James Rhodes about music.
Or do people really want to hear about the same things again and again?

As for the photo: I have no problem with seeing him in classic British style. I just don't like the combination. He seems very English to me and I am fine with that. 

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I just had a look at some of the quotes, and at least two are old and probably not part of the GQ interview. The "domestic dumb posh-bashing" is from The Telegraph of 14 August 2012 (!) and "I can't control the perception ..." at least as old as 9 May 2013 when it was published in a Huff Post interview. 

This shows again how lazy these media often work by putting together bits and pieces which somehow fit in the image they wish to create. 

 

Concerning lazy media: From our point of view it's lazy, from their point of view (which I don't want to defend!) it's a job. We as fans would certainly ask completely different questions, but journalists who 'only' do their job might not be interested in preparing such an interview carefully and coming up with more... unusual questions. I can understand this up to a point, but I also have to say: Aren't they aware that they most likely bore Mr. Cumberbatch, the readers and also themselves to death by asking questions that have already been asked a hundred times before? I personally wouldn't be interested in asking questions I already know the answers to...

Yes, people buy those magazines, they read those interviews, but I'm sure they would also buy the magazines and read the interviews if more unusual and uncommon questions were asked and answered.

I agree. And it definitely depends on the type of media what you get for your money. Might be naive, but I expect something different from an interview/article in TIME Magazine than from something I read in GQ. But what I always expect is to read something new, something I haven't read or heard before - and I don't mean personal stuff. I'm sure Benedict has an opinion about a lot of different things, they don't even have to be political. And yes, maybe journalists have to think a little harder to come up with questions which aren't all that obvious.
But I also understand that in a show like Late Night with Jimmy Fallon people don't want to hear guests talk about politics or other serious stuff. They want Mr. Cumberbatch to impersonate Alan Rickman. That's just how these things work, I suppose.