Benedict Cumberbatch: I Recieve Typecast as 'Posh' Figures

Benedict Cumberbatch -- you realize, that tall, angular fellow in 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,' 'War Horse' and also the BBC's A Virtual Detective -- states he frequently will get typecast as wealthy and upper-class. Cumberbatch told Radio Occasions, "As being a classy actor in England, you cannot escape class-typing, from whatever side your perception. I recognized quite in early stages that, although I wasn't attempting to make work niche from it, I had been playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals." That must definitely be why, as his 'Sherlock' co-star Martin Freeman describes, his nickname is "Cumberlord." Within an interview using the Huffington Publish, his 'War Horse' co-star Patrick Kennedy referred to how Cumberbatch's arrogant commanding officer applied off on the relationship once the camera wasn't moving: "We fell into our roles very rapidly like a kind of dynamic outdoors from the film," Kennedy stated. "I had been the joker, Tom [Hiddleston] was the kind of noble, sincere and heroic one, Benedict was the kind of stern, more pompous one, and that we were joking with one another around that dynamic." Before landing the role of Holmes, Cumberbatch performed Scarlett Johansson's unlikable husband in 'The Other Boelyn Girl,' the actual reason in 'Atonement' and physicist Stephen Hawking inside a 2004 TV movie. He's also voicing the villainous dragon Smaug within the approaching 'Hobbit' films, which stars his 'Sherlock' mate Freeman. [via Radio Occasions] [Photo: Getty] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook