Cumberbatch, Moffat: 'Sherlock's not gay'

Contents:

• DID BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH JT OUT SHERLOCK AS GAY?
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH IS GAY?
• MART FREEMAN ADDRS ‘TENSE’ SHERLOCK GAY FAN THEORI
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH WEIGHS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS GAY ROL AHEAD OF ‘POWER OF THE DOG’ RELEASE
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH DEFENDS DECISN TO PLAY GAY CHARACTER: 'I FEEL SENSIVE' ABOUT 'DIVERSY'
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH PRAISED BY GAY RIGHTS GROUP FOR DISCSG SEXUAL EXPERIMENTATN
• STEVEN MOFFAT WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT ‘SHERLOCK’ IS DEFELY NOT GAY
• CUMBERBATCH, MOFFAT: 'SHERLOCK'S NOT GAY'
• 'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, MART FREEMAN REVEAL LETED ‘SHERLOCK’ GAY BAR SCENE

DID BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH JT OUT SHERLOCK AS GAY?

”Sexualy is at the foreont of Cumberbatch’s hotly anticipated film, The Imatn Game, which he plays Alan Turg, a gay man who was wily creded wh crackg the Enigma durg World War II.

Tragilly, Turg mted suici after the war when he was nvicted of “engagg homosexual relatns”.

”Cumberbatch, who officiated his iends’ Seth Cummgs and Rob Rr’s civil ceremony Ibiza last year, also spoke about how difficult is for gay actors Hollywood. “I thk if you’re gog to sell yourself as a leadg man Hollywood to say ‘I’m gay’, sadly, is still a huge obstacle, ” he said. “We all know actors who are [gay] who don’t want to talk about or brg up, or who ny .

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH IS GAY?

Human rights movements and sexual and gay rights movements have ma huge social progrs the last 40 years, whout a doubt, but there’s a lot more work to be done. Although ’s never been nfirmed by the BBC if Cumberbatch’s Holm is supposed to be gay – the chemistry between him and Watson (played by Mart Freeman) has left ltle to the imagatn over the years. At one time mors were very actively spread that actor Benedikt Cumberbatch was gay.

To some extent, the gossip is also related to the fact that the actor played the part of Alan Turg the movie "The Game of Imatn", which cracked the of the German Enigma encryptn mache durg the Send World War, and was later prosecuted for his homosexualy. Sherlock star Mart Freeman has spoken about stgglg to al wh fans of the show who believed his character was gay. Mart Freeman: Sherlock fans nsired lack of gay relatnship ‘a betrayal’.

Speakg on Dert Island Discs on Sunday (March 31), Freeman opened up about alg wh gay fan theori om “challengg” fans.

MART FREEMAN ADDRS ‘TENSE’ SHERLOCK GAY FAN THEORI

Freeman add: “By the time we filmed the last on, there were some fans who were so adamant… they knew that John and Sherlock were gay, they knew , and they knew that Steven [Moffat] and Mark [Gatiss] were gog to wre an episo where we held hands off to the sunset together. Benedict Cumberbatch plays a sexually reprsed wboy the 1920s – when homosexualy was wily stigmatized and many plac, crimalized – the upg Netflix film “The Power of the Dog. Hollywood has for s st actors heterosexual relatnships gay rol.

Some of the creators volved those films, like director Todd Hayn of “Carol” and Lu Guadagno, who directed “Call Me By Your Name, ” which also starred straight actors, are gay themselv. The film “Moonlight, ” which followed a gay Black man three stag of his life, was celebrated for sisteppg queer stereotyp, though starred some straight actors.

Whereas stg cisgenr actors transgenr rol has recently fallen out of popular practice – LGBTQ media advocy anizatn GLAAD says stg this way “perpetuat this belief that trans people aren’t real” – there is not a siar nsens when to actors playg gay characters.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH WEIGHS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS GAY ROL AHEAD OF ‘POWER OF THE DOG’ RELEASE

(The anizatn didn’t immediately rpond to CNN’s requt for ment regardg straight actors portrayg gay characters. Vany Fair cric Richard Lawson wrote a review of the 2020 film “The Prom” that there’s no “hard and fast le about who should play gay men on screen. ” Nuance, though, is necsary for any actor playg a gay character, he said.

That’s part of why Jam Corn’s stg “The Prom” as a flamboyant fad Broadway star was wily cricized: Corn, who is married to a woman, played to stereotyp of gay men, acrdg to many crics, who said his performance was “sultg” and lled him “offensively misst.

“In general, y, I wish more gay actors got the chance to tell our stori, embody our people, rather than straight men gettg aclas for beg brave – or cheers for beg sassy, ” Lawson wrote his review of the film.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH DEFENDS DECISN TO PLAY GAY CHARACTER: 'I FEEL SENSIVE' ABOUT 'DIVERSY'

But the ia that playg a gay role is a “brave” cisn for a straight actor is beg ls domant, cric Guy Lodge said an terview wh the Guardian, evinced by the lack of buzz for films such as “Ammone” and “Supernova, ” which both foced on queer love stori portrayed by straight actors. “I thk the ia of beg ‘brave’ for playg gay is gog away, ” Lodge said.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH PRAISED BY GAY RIGHTS GROUP FOR DISCSG SEXUAL EXPERIMENTATN

Watson -- wh other characters nstantly assumg they were a uple -- and the homoerotic unrton their relatnship were so strong they spawned an entire Sherlock end 2017, fans hopg might fally make good on years of subtext were disappoted, and Freeman revealed a recent terview that he's aware the show let them down. "So by the time we filmed the last on, there were some fans who were so adamant that John and Sherlock were gay, " Freeman told Brish Rad 4.

STEVEN MOFFAT WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT ‘SHERLOCK’ IS DEFELY NOT GAY

The trouble is as soon as you start gettg to a dialogue about that, sounds like you're somehow beg homophobic. Benedict Cumberbatch is fendg his role as a gay man his latt movie.

Cumberbatch, who is straight and has prevly played a gay character, spoke about his latt turn the upg The Power of the Dog. Still, Cumberbatch knows the nversatn that along wh a straight actor takg on a gay character.

The actor prevly played mathematician Alan Turg, a gay man, 2014's The Imatn Game. The nversatn surroundg whether heterosexual actors should play gay characters has been buildg recent years. In December 2018, Glee star Darren Criss said he would no longer play gay characters after his breakout role as Blae Anrson Ryan Murphy's h show.

CUMBERBATCH, MOFFAT: 'SHERLOCK'S NOT GAY'

"But I want to make sure I won't be another straight boy takg a gay man's role.

”His admissn has nsequently been praised by gay rights group Stonewall for the impact will have on young men and women stgglg to e to terms wh their sexualy.

“It don’t take a tective to work out that seeg someone the public eye – pecially somebody as fluential as Benedict – talkg posively around gay issu, is powerful for young lbian, gay and bisexual people, ” said Stonewall Head of Policy Jam Taylor. “It is often difficult for those growg up to fd role mols who monstrate that is equally ok to be gay or straight. ”Cumberbatch ntued the terview to say that he would fight anti-gay extremists "to the ath".

'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!

”Cumberbatch has said before that he tried to change the homophobic views of his fellow stunts while he was at school at Harrow – an stutn which, he claims, had “a really low tolerance for homosexualy” July 2013, Cumberbatch officiated the gay marriage of his iends, Seth Cummgs and Rob Rr, Ibiza. Could Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holm actually be…gay?

But everyone wants to believe he’s gay. He’s not gay.

So he’s not gay or straight. Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch and wrer Stephen Moffat ny that the tective and his assistant Dr Watson are gay.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, MART FREEMAN REVEAL LETED ‘SHERLOCK’ GAY BAR SCENE

"I don't thk there is anythg that suggts Sherlock is gay but if he was he wouldn't fancy John [Watson].