BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Skydiving in New Zealand

**Posted by Davina** September 5, 2012 6:35 pm

Lots of great photos (golly he looks excited) of Ben doing a tandem skydive having finished filming for The Hobbit in New Zealand.

www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-09-04/benedict-cumberbatch-reenacts-the-reichenbach-fall-from-15000-feet

**Posted by SusiGo** September 5, 2012 6:51 pm

Wow, that looks like he's had a lot of fun. I wonder if I'd have the guts to do this.

**Posted by Mattlocked** September 5, 2012 7:17 pm

These are the moments when I'm glad that we will never have any kind of relationship .
I'm a chicken, I would go crazy with a boyfriend or husband with all those exciting/hazardous hobbies!

Last edited by Mattlocked (September 5, 2012 7:18 pm)

**Posted by Ivy** September 5, 2012 9:23 pm

Mattlocked wrote:
These are the moments when I'm glad that we will never have any kind of relationship .
I'm a chicken, I would go crazy with a boyfriend or husband with all those exciting/hazardous hobbies!

I second that!

**Posted by Davina** September 17, 2012 5:23 pm

Another really good article about the skydiving with many more photos. Funny what he says about the 'effect' of skydiving as he is not the first person I have heard say this.

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2204379/Benedict-Cumberbatch-shows-daredevil-thrills-skydive.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

**Posted by veecee** September 17, 2012 6:40 pm

SusiGo wrote:
Wow, that looks like he's had a lot of fun. I wonder if I'd have the guts to do this.

Maybe if BC were holding you.

**Posted by SusiGo** September 17, 2012 7:08 pm

veecee wrote:
SusiGo wrote:
Wow, that looks like he's had a lot of fun. I wonder if I'd have the guts to do this.
Maybe if BC were holding you.

Ready to go. Where's the plane?

**Posted by veecee** September 17, 2012 8:39 pm

SusiGo wrote:
veecee wrote:
SusiGo wrote:
Wow, that looks like he's had a lot of fun. I wonder if I'd have the guts to do this.
Maybe if BC were holding you.
Ready to go. Where's the plane?

Who needs the plane to fly once he's holding you?

**Posted by SusiGo** September 17, 2012 8:41 pm

Yes. But first we'll have to get up there. Or I'll just skip the jump and go straight on to the holding bit.

Last edited by SusiGo (September 17, 2012 8:43 pm)

**Posted by Mattlocked** September 17, 2012 8:48 pm

Naa... it will be the other way round. Stay on the ground, start the "holding bit" and then.... flyyyyyyyyy......

(Just imagine Susi jumping from the plane with Ben - she will never land!!)

Last edited by Mattlocked (September 17, 2012 8:49 pm)

**Posted by SusiGo** September 17, 2012 9:14 pm

Mattlocked wrote:
Naa... it will be the other way round. Stay on the ground, start the "holding bit" and then.... flyyyyyyyyy......

(Just imagine Susi jumping from the plane with Ben - she will never land!!)

Just fly the friendly sky …

**Posted by Wholocked** September 18, 2012 12:16 am

That article was funny. I mean it's fine, except that the New Zealand dive was the second time he'd done sky diving. The quote was from when he did it the first time. Apparently Daily Mail is somewhat of a nonsense tabloid over there? Like they're going "OMG Benedict hasn't done anything for us to write about lately let's find something!"

**Posted by NW16XE** September 18, 2012 12:24 am

Thanks for the pics, Davina, and the article! Poor darling, I promise to never take his picture in Tesco at one in the morning. (chance'd be a fine thing I'd ever have the opportunity.)

**Posted by harleyq** November 5, 2012 12:04 am

What is this incomprehensible phenomenon of jumping out of perfectly good airplanes? I swear I wouldn't jump out of pane if it was crashing! I know people who have done this, people I once thought sane, and they too claim to want to do it again. I can't speak for the "effect" that it has but I would gladly would on the ground, where we belong, and help him out with that.