Posted by on February 4, 2025 10:04 am
Originally From: Pink News

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Benedict Cumberbatch spoken about the regret he feels for playing a non-binary character in Zoolander 2.

The star, who played gay mathematician and computer genius Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, was cast as androgynous supermodel All – a protégé of a top designer, meant to symbolise fashion’s evolving attitudes towards gender expression – in Ben Stiller’s 2016 comedy.

“It’s a difficult one to talk about,” he admitted to Variety when asked about one of the controversial lines. “I’ve had to apologise for that quite a lot.”

Benedict Cumberbatch wouldn’t take the role again now. (Jim Spellman/WireImage/Getty)

After the first trailer dropped in 2015, LGBT+ activists described Cumberbatch’s character as an “over-the-top, cartoonish mockery of androgyny/trans/non-binary individuals”.

He said of working with Stiller and co-stars Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell: “I love

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