Benedict Cumberbatch
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 09: (L-R) Debra Dauman, Actor Benedict Cumberbatch, and Viacom President and CEO Philippe Dauman attend the 'Star Trek Into Darkness' screening at AMC Loews Lincoln Square on May 9, 2013 in New York City.
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Ah, I see what you did there ... Those who pay attention to these things will notice that’s the one that Zach grabs in the film.
I think a lot of maturing happens in this film for Kirk, for a man who thinks he knows everything and leads with his gut and leads with his heart, and is all kind of passion and heart ... He’s a man that has to learn to censor himself sometimes, and our bad guy, John Harrison [Benedict Cumberbatch], basically levels this mirror in front of Kirk in which he sees all of his vulnerabilities and his fallibility and everything that is wrong with how he leads his men and women into battle. And it brings him to his knees.
He didn’t want to condone the film because he thought – hopefully erroneously when he sees the end product – that the project would castigate him and portray a negative side of his enterpriseMore quotes »
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Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto: The voyage of 2 'Star Trek' stars
), Mr. Spock ( Zachary Quinto ) and the rest of the USS Enterprise crew, as they face a new villain, John Harrison ( Benedict Cumberbatch ).As with so much in the fictional worlds Abrams creates (" Lost ," "Super 8"), many details around the movie have been Read more »
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'Star Trek Into Darkness': Benedict Cumberbatch enjoys being villain
Cumberbatch at the Bowery Hotel in New York on May 13, 2013. (Jennifer S. Altman / For The Times) Benedict Cumberbatch at the Bowery Hotel in New York on May 13, 2013. (Jennifer S. Altman / For The Times) Zachary Quinto, left, Benedict Cumberbatch and Chris 9:05 AM from Los Angeles Times Read more »
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'Star Trek 2': About that ending...
Into Darkness was shrouded in mystery. And nothing was more mysterious than the film’s newest and most glamourous addition: Benedict Cumberbatch, who was playing a character named “John Harrison,” the red herringest of red herring franchise names since “ John 1:47 AM from Entertainment Weekly Read more »
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‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ – What Did You Think?
box” for over a year. For hardcore fans, at least, the secrecy around the precise nature of the character played by Benedict Cumberbatch has been a big part of the marketing allure, but the energy Abrams and his cast brought to their first outing on the Enterprise 5/17/13 from Original Signal: Movies Read more »
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Is Star Trek Into Darkness Too Dark?
of the Enterprise crew looking upset, intercut with scenes of funerals and caskets and death and destruction. And then, Benedict Cumberbatch says “You think you’re safe… you are not” over yet more scenes of expertly choreographed violence, accompanied by an from Time Magazine Read more »
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How Critics Handled Star Trek Into Darkness’s Bad-Guy Secret
even more than the battle royal between the Enterprise and a very bad, cyborg-like guy whose name is John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch) but who actually inhabits an identity hallowed in the annals of Trekkiedom." — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor from Vulture Read more »
