12:05 am - 08/31/2012
Cumberbatch backtracks on comments about Jonny Lee Miller
The Hollywood Reporter has an update on Benedict Cumberbatch's comments about Jonny Lee Miller taking the role of Sherlock Holmes in Elementary.
UPDATED: Cumberbatch has reached out to The Hollywood Reporter to clarify what he characterizes as a "misquote."
The statement:
"I am both bemused and upset at this misquote. I never said that Johnny took the job for the paycheck nor did I ask him not to do it. What I said is I would have preferred not to be in the situation where we will again be compared because we are friends. I know for a fact his motivations were to do with the quality of the script and the challenges of this exceptional role.
"It is baffling because I have only been supportive of an incredibly talented actor who I am proud to call a friend taking a job I know he is going to enjoy immensely and be wonderful in.
"Over 70 actors have played this exceptional character before us. To say that there can be only one Holmes would be ludicrous. We're both thrilled to get the opportunity to play him in a modern context. The world of Sherlock Holmes and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation. As a genuine Sherlock Holmes fan I am greatly looking forward to his series."
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sooooo, what about that gross comment he made about JLM keeping his wife in good clothes? Because that was the mega-gross comment, really.
edit: also, is that statement something they C&Ped from Benedict and/or his people? Because Jonny's name is spelled wrong...
UPDATED: Cumberbatch has reached out to The Hollywood Reporter to clarify what he characterizes as a "misquote."
The statement:
"I am both bemused and upset at this misquote. I never said that Johnny took the job for the paycheck nor did I ask him not to do it. What I said is I would have preferred not to be in the situation where we will again be compared because we are friends. I know for a fact his motivations were to do with the quality of the script and the challenges of this exceptional role.
"It is baffling because I have only been supportive of an incredibly talented actor who I am proud to call a friend taking a job I know he is going to enjoy immensely and be wonderful in.
"Over 70 actors have played this exceptional character before us. To say that there can be only one Holmes would be ludicrous. We're both thrilled to get the opportunity to play him in a modern context. The world of Sherlock Holmes and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation. As a genuine Sherlock Holmes fan I am greatly looking forward to his series."
Source
sooooo, what about that gross comment he made about JLM keeping his wife in good clothes? Because that was the mega-gross comment, really.
edit: also, is that statement something they C&Ped from Benedict and/or his people? Because Jonny's name is spelled wrong...