Benedict Cumberbatch was riding a high going into 2016. He was a wildly popular actor and sex symbol, and also noted for being a nice person. But then he threw a bucket of cold water on all that by taking a role widely seen as being offensive to non-binary people.
Cumberbatch played a character called “All” in the Ben Stiller comedy sequel Zoolander 2. This person was presented as being spacey and annoying, and was subjected to jokes about their genitals. There was quite a bit of blowback at the time, with some people actually starting a petition asking audiences to boycott the movie. “By hiring a cis actor to play a non-binary individual in a clearly negative way, the film endorses harmful and dangerous perceptions of the queer community at large,” it stated.
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