Incidentally, you may come across festival attendees calling themselves Cumberbitches. Can’t think of a better way to pass the torch. And he has a supporting role in McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, which also features Fassbender. But Cumberbatch also has a place in the all-star cast of August: Osage County, alongside Meryl Streep, Sam Shepard, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor and others. Highest-profile is his white-haired take on Julian Assange in the opening-night film The Fifth Estate, which tells the story of the founding of WikiLeaks. The stentorian-voiced British thespian (his background in theatre, including an Olivier award, precludes calling him a mere “actor”) arrives in Toronto with roles in three festival films. This year the man to watch is Benedict Cumberbatch. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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