Hello everyone,
I´ve been following your interesting and insightful discussions on this forum for quite a long time. Now I have to finally gather up my courage and post something aswell.
Benedict and Sophie are obviously very much in love and completely happy with their situation. Sophie seems to be handling the crazy attention very professionally and cool. I don`t think she looks commanding or anything, just less reserved than in the first pictures immediately after the engagement. They will be a lovely familiy and I wish them all the happiness in the world.
That said, I can`t help but feel a little worried about the amount of publicity Benedict gets. The whole oscar campain was a mess in my opinion. They hyped the movie so much, always repeating the same stuff until everybody was utterly sick of it and the press did the rest by printing and reprinting the same quotes over and over because Benedict is the big poster boy now. There are some really nasty articles out there about Benedict beeing attention seeking in contrast to the other award contenders who did more "dignified" campaigning and will probably get more awards for it. I don`t want to spread negativity and I know that Benedict is not attention seeking and means every word he says about the importance of Alan Turing. But he tends to take up quite a lot of room in interviews together with other actors for example, because he talks so much when he feels passionately about a subject and gets a little overexcited. I`m just worried that the press will turn on him in the end, to paraphrase John Watson, and paint him as the pompous git with the crazy fangirls who gets all the attention for photobombing people at awards ceremonies while all the "serious actors" take home their awards.
Sorry for the rant, but I had to get this off my chest.
As you can see from this post, I very often worry far too much about the public image and what other people might think of myself or people I admire. At the same time the people I find attractive and admire the most are very often people that have absolutely no problem with being themselves, just like Benedict.
Did he not say in an interview that it was the best thing in the world to find the one human being that can accept you just as you are? God, I really wish them all the happiness, that`s absolutely beautiful
Sorry, my thoughts are getting a little convoluted, I need to go to bed. Therapy session over
Greetings from Germany