Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch & Martin Freeman: Holmes at Home

  

 

Update 1/2/2016: Sherlock. The Abominable Bride aired last night, almost two years in the waiting! I loved it especially for its feminist slant. Because they program spent so much time in the alternate universe of the 1890’s, we didn’t get a good look at Sherlock’s present day digs. For those of you who dig the show in part because of its contemporary swag, this retread is for you.

I know. It’s the mystery, and the Sherlock Holmes/John Watson bromance that brings you to Sherlock, but the eye-popping production design has you drooling over the wallpaper. Me too. If your addiction has driven you online in a glazed-eyed hunt to satisfy your craving, feeding an addiction your pal Holmes knows only too well, then surely, surely, you've found Sherlockology.  The seriously groovy site provides not just the usual cast and episode story info but lots of links to the places where you can find the stuff that gives Sherlock its bold and quirky signature look. Sherlock’s living room wallpaper, for instance, an oversized chocolate flocked fleur de lys pattern on a metallic background is Navarre from the Nuryev Collection and you can buy it for just over a hundred pounds per roll from Tangletree Interiors. Zoffany, the maker, also sells it via wallpaper direct and ships overseas.  You're welcome. 

Not here for the wallpaper? 

Sit back with a cuppa and indulge in this hour long interview with Benedict Cumberbatch. It’s really less of an interview and more like the interviewer tossed out a couple of questions and Benedict ran with them. One thing is crystal clear, Benedict Cumberbatch can talk! He goes on at great length, the delight being how extremely articulate, self-effacing and interesting the actor is as a man, a human being. If you're a fan, you’ll find this irrisistable. 

You asked for it, you’ve got it! Every month a couple of thousand of you come here wondering if Benedict Cumberbatch smokes. Some of you want to know is whether he smokes weed. These are pretty typical key search words :

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The answer is both.

On the subject of ‘smoking weed’ in my most popular post Ten Things I Know About Benedict Cumberbatch I quoted the man himself as told to Stephen Galloway in The Hollywood Reporter. On the subject of the ciggies, talking about working with Meryl Streep on August Osage County, Cumberbatch mentions they went out for a smoke. So yes, Benedict Cumbertatch smokes. And that’s it for that. 

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