Oh, I didn't mean the pictures. Those will leak anyway, I think. I rather meant the crowds of fans which Ben and the others are facing if things like those hashtags become the norm.
Regarding Sherlock he said it's his job he's doing there and he needs to concentrate, but that it's really difficult with so many onlookers (even if they are as well-behaved as the setlock fans).

SusiGo wrote:

Oh, alright. I can imagine that it disturbs the concentration. Did you see the extra feature from STID? There is a short moment where you can see him totally concentrating on a scene. This might be difficult with a crowd around you. 

No, I didn't (yet), but I can imagine it.

I also think that there certainly is security standing by in case it should become necessary to secure the set. The crew and production team certainly know how to ensure an undisturbed shooting. If fans should get too close, too wild, too whatever, the team will find a way to do something about it.
Of course there might always be fans who just go too far, but I guess that lies in the nature of things.

Kerkerian wrote:

I agree- they don't need our "protection" and they do have security. I just don't like the way this is going and the light it's probably shedding on his fans in general. Today there was a new tumblr post from someone who had "been lucky" because they were shooting in her hometown and she took pictures of BC. I quote:

"Poor guy had to do this scene on this old bike on a wet road 4 times in the freezing cold, must have killed!Felt really bad when we were asked to move back and he looked at us and said sorry…like we’re the ones stepping on your toes man! You’re freezing your butt off on a rickety old bike and you’re apologising to us for being in shot? He’s too nice."

Exactly. He's too nice about things like that when it can't be anything but annoying.

This comment from the girl on tumblr actually made me grin, because it sounds so wonderfully naive. Well, of course shooting a movie is not just great fun with sunshine everyday and delivering some lines and looking good on camera. It's hard work, very often under not ideal conditions... just think about all those night shoots for Sherlock, that's probably not too funny, either.

But I'm sure that Benedict is well aware of the fact that his "Collective" consists of lots of different people, with lots of different character traits, behaviour, whatever... and he certainly knows that with success there sometimes also come uncomfortable or even annoying situations.
(I'd be lying if I said that I wouldn't go and have a look if he happened to shoot in my neighbourhood... I'm just not on tumblr or twitter, so I wouldn't tell anybody there about it. )