Although Benedict Cumberbatch’s portrayal of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate garnered widespread acclaim, the actor had a harder time impressing one critic in particular: Assange himself.
“I tried to justify my reasons for doing the project,” Cumberbatch, 37, told press at a Toronto International Film Festival roundtable earlier this month“It mattered to me a lot that he felt so passionately, but I wanted to persuade him that it wasn’t necessarily going to be as bad as he feared it would be.” Read more…
More about Films, Entertainment, Wikileaks, Julian Assage, and Film
Read more : Benedict Cumberbatch to Assange: ‘The Fifth Estate’ Won’t Be That Bad
0 Responses
Stay in touch with the conversation, subscribe to the RSS feed for comments on this post.