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As we discussed earlier this week, Benedict Cumberbatch covers the new issue of Vanity Fair. I’m still trying to understand what they did to him and why he looks so young in these photos. Is it just aggressive Photoshop? Or something else? Anyway, Benedict also participated in a funny/charming video for VF. Benedict Strange does a “magic trick” involving a bottle of water. The best part of this is that he looks infinitely LESS creepy in motion and he narrates everything with his silky alien-otter voice.

It’s cute, right? It almost made me like him again. Not that I hate him now, I’m just sort of over him. There’s also this behind-the-scenes video of the VF shoot for the die-hard Bendybitches.

Meanwhile, it feels like forever and a day since Benedict was ever associated – however loosely – with the Great James Bond Search. I seem to remember that his name got a few mentions years ago, but most people justifiably scoffed, just as I continue to scoff at Tom Hiddleston’s alleged Bond thirst. Apparently, Benedict was asked about Bond in his British GQ interview, and this is what he had to say:

“I think people are obsessed with other people being Bond at the moment, so the heat’s off me… I can wear a suit and I can fight. I can raise my eyebrow, but that’s not what it takes to play Bond. They might want to go in very different directions, who knows? It would be fun though.”

[From The Telegraph]

I hate to say it, Dragonflies, but this is how you’re supposed to brush off the rumors. Do it with a shrug! Don’t actively campaign. While I don’t believe Benedict is on any shortlist, I do think Benedict’s chance at playing Bond is a lot better than Tom Hiddleston’s.

Last thing: Benedict is still very much attached to play Thomas Edison in The Current War, all about Edison, George Westinghouse and Nikolai Tesla. Michael Shannon was recently announced for Westinghouse, and now it’s looking like Nicholas Hoult will play Tesla. That actually sounds like a great movie, although… I do feel like Cumberbatch in particular is stuck in a rut of playing weird geniuses, you know?

Photos courtesy of Vanity Fair.
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