What is more worrisome is that this Khan has taken on what might by now be called a Cumberbatchian asexuality, which is at odds with Khan’s magnetic sensual appeal, the source of his power.
And while Idris — an other-level hunk whose lot on earth seems to be[sic] emasculate other lads — only has one film here relative to the three of his rival, the Thinking Woman’s Crumpet — some quick celebrity arithmetic tells us that one Mandela (Idris’ high-stakes biopic) is equal to at least three Cumberbatchian projects.
Given that his own background, as the privately educated son of actors Maria Aitken and Nigel Davenport and nephew of disgraced Conservative politician Jonathan Aitken, tends to the Cumberbatchian end of the spectrum, what are his views?
Sherlock-the-character has a fanatic following, with fans who debate every Cumberbatchian movement and every plot twist with the fervor of grassy-knoll conspiracy buffs.
(Tyldum found a Cumberbatchian teen, Alex Lawther, for these flashbacks; the young actor is vital to the film's cumulative portrayal.)
2015, Zach Dundas, The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2015), →ISBN, pages 262-263:
(Under the name wordstrings, she also writes stories in which the Cumberbatchian Holmes experiences vivid synesthesia and other intense internal effects, some obviously due to diagnosable psychiatric disorders.)
When might he [Benedict Cumberbatch's son] sprout his first Cumberbatchian reddish hair, recite his first Shakespearean line (our money is riding on 18 months), and develop his first celebrity impression?
