"I'm gonna try not to cry," said the big-eyed brunette fan, quavery-voiced as she approached the microphone. Forty feet away, the British actor seated at the dais in Comic-Con's Hall H leaned forward and nodded benevolently."We'll all try together," replied Benedict Cumberbatch.Many a genre heartthrob has graced the stage at Comic-Con in years past, but the reaction to the 38-year-old Cumberbatch — who's never made the trek to San Diego until now, despite a Con-worthy résumé that includes Star Trek Into Darkness and The Hobbit — was on a different level than the shrieks that used to greet Taylor Lautner or Robert Pattinson here. This felt personal. The women in this audience, whose crush on Cumberbatch was stoked initially by the BBC series Sherlock, had helped to make him a romantic lead and a movie star almost by sheer force of fervor, and now he had arrived to face his...
- 7/24/2014
- by Kyle Buchanan
- Vulture
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