Benedict Cumberbatch regrets that she ‘upset people’ with a non-line role in Zoolander 2
Actor Benedict Cumberbatch said he “had to apologize repeatedly” because of the acting character as a gage in “Zoolander 2.”
Diversity reported How is Cumberbatch, best known for playing Doctor Strange in Marvel movies and a titular detective in Sherlock, which has entered the playing non-line fashion model called “All” below “Zoolander”.
IN Comedy 2016, The two main characters, played by Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, get to know the character called “All” and have questions immediately. The character, with shaved eyebrows and androgynous appearance, asked Stiller’s character: “So … Are you, like, a male model or a female model?”
“Everything is not defined by binary constructs,” Cumbratch’s character replies.
Benedict Cumberbatch arrives at the 28th Annual Guild Award for the screen in The Barker Hangar on Sunday, February 27, 2022, in Santa Monica, California. (Photo Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
“That’s okay, I don’t like labels,” Wilson’s character says. “But I think he asks,” Do you have a hot -dog or a bun? Do you have Wiener or “Vageener”? “
These and other clumsy moments with this character were condemned by liberal critics.
“I had to apologize for that. It’s hard to talk about it,” Cumberbartch told Variety. “I love that group of people and it was an opportunity to somehow be part of something [in Zoolander] That he was iconic for the first time and I was a big fan. But it became complicated and misunderstood and I disturbed people. I respect that, so I probably wouldn’t do it anymore. “
As Variety noted, the petition circulated at the time and raised 25,000 supporters calling for “boycott” Zoolander 2 “because of their offensive representation of non-binical individuals!”
The movie “Zoolander”, directed by Ben Stiller. I saw here, Ben Stiller (like Derek Zoolander). Theater edition on September 28, 2001. Screen shooting. Paramount of the picture. (CBS via Getty Images)
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“Cumberbatch’s character is obviously portrayed as a superior, cartoon, Androgyne/Trans/non-bonding individuals,” the petition states. “This is the modern equivalent of the use of Blackface to present a minority.”
Petition They continued to claim: “If producers and screenwriters Zoolander wanted to give a social comment on the presence of trans/androgynous individuals in the fashion industry, they could approach models like Andrei Pejic to be in the movie. By renting a actress CIS to play a non -bombing individual on A clearly negative way, the film supports the harmful and dangerous perceptions of the Queer community as a whole. “
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Variety also recalled when Cumberbatch said in 2022, “at this time, my role will never be performed by anyone but a Trans -glumac. “
He added, “But I remember at the time I did not necessarily think about this regard, and there were more about two dinosaurs, two heteronormative clichés did not understand this new diverse world. But that said a little.”
