Benedict Cumberbatch regrets his nonbinary character: ‘I upset people’
Benedict Cumberbatch (Image: Gage Skidmore/Flickr)
Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch has spoken out about how he reflects on his much-criticised turn as a nonbinary character in Zoolander 2.
Ben Stiller’s critically-panned 2016 sequel to Zoolander featured Cumberbatch in the role of All, a nonbinary model. The portrayal received immediate criticism as soon as the trailer had dropped, with some LGBTQ+ activists even calling for the film to be boycotted.
One activist Sarah Rose even started a petition against the film which garnered over 10,000 signatures at the time of the film’s release.
“It’s a difficult one to talk about,” Cumberbatch recently admitted to Variety when the film came up. “I’ve had to apologise for that quite a lot.”
Speaking about the experience of working with Stiller and the film’s other
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