“My dad read the book to me and it was a bedtime treat if I had done well,” said Cumberbatch. “If I had been a good boy, I’d get two chapters as opposed to maybe one, or none if I had been really bad.” (Swoon, right, Cumberfans?)
Sadly for the many Cumberfans, neither he nor Martin Freeman were available for an appearance (watch their special video message below), but co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss plus producer/Moffat better half Sue Vertue did have the time to talk about the show in general and series three in particular.
I’m with Benedict on this one. Not so much his irritation with adoring Cumberfans, who think a visit to the theatre is unfulfilled unless they watch his performance as Hamlet through their mobile phone cameras, though that is bad enough – some people don’t consider an event is real unless it is on a screen.
While Benedict is at home under the duvet with a packet of Day Nurse and a cup of hot lemon, Dwane would have to stride on to the stage as Hamlet and face up to the sea of Cumberfans in the audience, who have flown in from Wisconsin, Osaka, Sydney and Guadeloupe for this one night only, with their precious once-in-a-lifetime tickets, mobiles turned off.