Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch says Alan Turing deserves to and should be recognised for his work and calls the discrimination that he suffered 'disgusting.'

Cumberbatch takes on the role of Turing in The Imitation Game, a movie that had the honour of opening the BFI London Film Festival last night.

Turing was a man who played a huge hand in breaking the Enigma Code during the Second World War, but was later prosecuting for his homosexuality.

Speaking at the festival's press conference, the actor said: "The idea of getting a broader story out there, a broader picture of him to a broader audience, is something that does bear a certain weight of importance.

"It’s his legacy. This has been an extraordinary decade for him, because of pardons, because of his centenary, because of exhibitions and books and now this film.

"It’s part of a momentum I hope to have him at the forefront of the recognition he deserves as a scientist, as a father of the modern computer age and a man who lived an uncompromising life in the time of disgusting discrimination."

The Imitation Game has already been one of the most talked about movies on the festival circuit this year, as it sees Mortum Tyldum return to the director's chair.

The movie and Cumberbatch's central performance have already been tipped for possible Oscar contenders at the beginning of next year.

We have already seen Cumberbatch in the likes of 12 Years A Slave and August: Osage County this year, but The Imitation Game is the biggest role of his film career to date.

The Imitation Game is released 14th November.


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