Benedict Cumberbatch Reportedly in Talks to Play Alan Turing in Biopic
I don ’t know what it is by Benedict or Mr. Sherlock, even as he ages he acquires
what ever he is got that gets all my cylinders firing at once. It’s something I don’t
like particularly from a man I have not met and chances are I wont. But every time
there is an opportunity to at least write something about him, is very interesting.
I don’t like Jessica Roy the writer of the post below because she thinks that the
opposite of a man is a woman. Or that gay guys only go for one particular genotypical
mold. Her review is good, but I willl see next time. We do have the opposite of her in
our own gay community.
Any words referring by girls alone I added boy or boys and that was the level of my editing.
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This should delight the Sherlock fangirls/boys on Tumblr:
Benedict Cumberbatch,
who’s currently shooting The Fifth Estate, in which he plays controversial
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, is reportedly in talks to take on his next
awesomely nerdy role. Deadline reports that Mr. Cumberbatch may be
gearing up to play Alan Turing in a biopic about the famous British mathe-
matician’s life.
Turing is a storied character in computer science history, having cracked a code during
World War II that helped the Allies defeat Germany. He also invented the Turing Test,
which helps gauge a computer’s ability to behave indistinguishably from a human. In
the ’50s, Mr. Turing was prosecuted by the British government for being gay, choosing
chemical castration over prison time, which eventually lead to his suicide. So: a real feel
good movie!
With so many nerd-friendly roles already under his belt (including The Hobbit and Star
Trek), we can only hope Mr. Cumberbatch will soon accept a role as Steve “Sweaty”
Ballmer in the smash-hit musical comedy Developers!
Jessica Roy is a reporter for Betabeat and the New York Observer. Follow Jessica on Twitter or via RSS.jroy@observer.com
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