Someone on Tumblr said (and I agree) that they really wish BC would take a break from these big franchises and, like, go do a comedy. He's remarkably good at comedy.

Actually, I'm quite interested in seeing him in "Enigma" about Alan Turing.

I thought Imitation Game was Turing. And, yes, I am, as well.

D'oh! Yes, "The Imitation Game" is the BC one; "Enigma" was 2001.

someone on Tumblr said (and I agree) that they really wish BC would take a break from these big franchises and, like, go do a comedy. He's remarkably good at comedy.

That was me, I think.

I'm off Tumblr until people stop being stroppy children with a flair for the dramatic, so figure 48 hours or so until the next outrage. I mean, while I think Cumberbatch could play the role in his sleep so it'd be uninspired casting and I want to see him do comedy, damn it, the amount of name insulting and appearance bashing has me wanting to smack the stupid out of people again.

But, you know, I also think there's no way to make a Doctor Strange movie that isn't filled with an epic amount of oh honey no, so, eh. Like, this is the hill that the kids want to die on for diversity in casting? Seriously?

Just... why, pumpkins? Do you even have any familiarity with the character?

(Also, once more, fandom is managing to make some Jewish fans very uncomfortable with their shifting racial classifications of Israeli actors of European Jewish parentage [Fehr, Gadot, Portman] according to fandom's social justice whims and if the actor's ever said anything problematic or viewed as problematic. Though like a few of the FFA people, I suspect most of the people who'd been fancasting Oded Fehr were operating under the assumption that he was Egyptian.)

I'm off Tumblr until people stop being stroppy children with a flair for the dramatic

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I bet a lot of it has to do with the "exoticness" of their names.

Paramount options erotic One Direction fic.

Stroppy children with a flair for the dramatic about this, at least!

Names, roles played previously. Lotta factors, many of which make me hella uncomfortable, because there's some seriously skeevy undertones of exoticization of people in the name of great justice.

Add to that the whole "he's drawn as swarthy with strong features and they never said flat out he was white in the comics, therefore clearly not white!" and I am in full side-eye mode. Again, think the character would be improved by race bending, but dude. With his backstory and when he was created, they wouldn't have had to specify whiteness there. That's kind of the reality of America's fucked up system. (Plus he's totally drawn like Vincent Price, who was totally awesome, but also an upper class rich white guy. So they're are literally doing this whole creepy gross classification by what you view as stereotypical features, and this would make so much more sense were I not on my phone.)

Nah, I get you. Tumblr-dom seems to have real problems with differentiating between categories of Things Which Are Issues and degree of outrage for various Things Which Are Issues. Also, history and context. And then you have the just free-floating fail that occurs in the world, including on Tumbr, which then gets reblogged and not examined and...yeah.

Though like a few of the FFA people, I suspect most of the people who'd been fancasting Oded Fehr were operating under the assumption that he was Egyptian.

I'm mostly operating under the assumption that he's hot and underused.