Women will have mixed feelings about Benedict Cumberbatch's scruffy avatar, we realised at Doctor Strange's Hong Kong premiere
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Dim sums and Benedict Cumberbatch and sorcery. Now that’s a threesome you want to hear more about, right? Earlier this week, we flew to Hong Kong to catch the “Internet’s Boyfriend” in the flesh as he promoted his newest avatar as a Marvel superhero in the film Doctor Strange, set to release in early November in India. Joining him there, where the movie releases a week before the USA, were his enigmatic co-star Tilda Swinton, director Scott Derrickson and Marvel Studios' president Kevin Feige.
We were privy to an extensive half hour screening of exclusive footage from the much-talked about film and, if looks are anything to go by, we think audiences are going to have mixed feelings about Cumberbatch's scruffy bearded look. Perhaps we have grown too used to that adorable lock of hair falling on his forehead; let's move on, ladies.
While it seems that Cumberbatch is only too eager to break the Sherlock mould, here's more of what we know: this is going to be the most alternative superhero yet to come from the Marvel Cinematic Universe — he uses Eastern mysticism and mudras — and one of the rare moments when the superhero gets a woman mentor, this time with Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One. The film is going to have a dizzying amount of CGI and whispers were heard in the crowd that it was reminiscent of Inception. However Scott Derrickson is clear that this is going to be "a hard left turn" for MCU and may get audiences to re-think what the Marvel superhero film can be about. We'll be getting you more on this.
Day Two at The Ritz Carlton hosted Carol Cheng, a famed presenter and actor, who presented Cumberbatch and Co. And here's what we suspect: that the Internet's boyfriend is hardly as cocky as Sherlock. Speaking at length about meditation and managing to be politically correct almost always, Cumberbatch came across as profound and moving, despite his constant reassurances that he wasn't. Oh, you will be happy to learn that the newest superhero in town recounts the "strangest" thing about him as his hypermobility — and some folks got to see Doctor Strange just show us how much his double jointed fingers can bend backwards. So, Cumberbabes, when you catch him on screen, watch out for those fingers that constantly perform mudras in order to open up other dimensions. And on that note, we hear that Cumberbatch does not like his fans to be addressed as “Cumberb***hes”.
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