Posted on 04/04/2021 10:46:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Benedict Cumberbatch is worried he might have been "patient zero".
The Imitation Game star was really sick towards the end of 2019 after flying into South Africa and he now worries he helped to spread coronavirus around the world before the first cases had even been confirmed.
Speaking to the independent.co.uk, he explained: "I was incredibly ill, to the point that when all this Covid stuff suddenly broke in the new year, I was thinking, oh my god was I actually patient zero. I was so ill – it was borderline pneumonia."
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It was previously revealed Benedict donated £12,000 (S$22,341) to buy hospital scrubs.
The generous star got in touch with Savile Row tailor Emma Willis after she launched her Style For Surgeons initiative back in April.
Emma - who previously fitted Benedict, 44, for shirts onscreen and for his wedding to Sophie Hunter in 2015 - said: "It was so great. I got a call from him out of the blue saying: 'It's Benedict, I'm in New Zealand'. Actor Bryan Cranston still hasn't fully recovered sense of taste after getting Covid-19
“He said: 'I've heard about your Style For Surgeons and I would love to get involved. What can I do?' I said, 'We're aiming to raise £30,000 and we've got £12,000 more to raise to cover the cost of the fabric, we're covering the cost of the making of them.' He said: 'Count it done,' and transferred the rest of the money.
"He obviously felt a real need to support. We do ongoing work with him and there's also something in the pipeline. I think people, like Benedict, who use their influence and fame to support important causes are wonderful. They see how they can help people through their fame in such a positive way."
/if only Cher had been there
I like Benedict Cumberbatch as an actor. As an expert in contagion, not so much. He was almost certainly not “patient zero”.
Benedict has always been a bit of a nutter. He started out brilliantly as Sherlock Holmes but as he grew famous his personality ended up ruining the show and people couldn’t wait for him to leave. This is just his latest narcissistic event.
He was a pretty good Hamlet for the National Theatre.
Well cucumberbatch, if ya feel that bad.............
Why worry about something you’ll never know for sure and you can’t change anyways?
Somebody needs to get over himself.
He's got talent. You have to in order to get steady work with the kind of shows he's been in. But I guess he has a loony side as well. I don't follow any of his shows since Sherlock I just know he's in a lot of hit movies now.
‘’Somebody needs to get over himself.’’
Yeah, big time.
Although different acting styles he sort of reminds me of Johnny Depp. Weird.
He’s playing Dr Strange in the Marvel Cinema Universe. He plays the character very well, and looks the part. Dr. Strange 2 is coming in 2022. Here’s a video about it.
So, he can be blamed for everything?
I may have set into motion a chain of events that will ultimately lead to World War Five. We’ll just have to wait and see. If so, I take full responsibility.
Go to any supermarket or drug store. There is a huge aisle of cold and cough remedies. They wouldn’t be there if millions of people didn’t suffer from colds and the flu every year. When Covid testing became available, the vast majority of symptomatic people tested negative. Yet, it seems like everyone who had a cold or the flu in late-2019 (including some posters here) wants to claim they had Covid for some reason.
So I’m supposed to blame Cumberbatch for getting the Chicom Cooties instead of the homicidal Communists?
Root cause? —-
Pachamama enters St Peter’s: Oct 7, 2019
http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/12/11/cardinal-raymond-burke-diabolical-forces-entered-st-peters-basilica-through-pachamama-idolatry/
First coronahoax case appears, earliest estimate: Oct 7, 2019
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9380325/Coronavirus-started-circulating-China-October-2019-study-claims.html
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/early/2021/03/17/science.abf8003.full.pdf
I haven’t watched any of the Marvel movies. I’m not interested in that type of movie. I know Benedict from the British tv work he did before all of that. I also remember a line from a movie I can’t remember where one girl is talking to another and says that you know the world has gone mad when Benedict Cumberbatch is a sex symbol.
He was good as Khan in the Star Trek II reboot flick. That was probably the best of the 3 new movies. It was a great tribute to the original Star Trek II, which was the best of TOS movies.
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