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According to UK’s Radio Times magazine, Doctor Who show-runner Steven Moffat has revealed that the BBC wasn’t always happy with his casting choices of his other hit show Sherlock.
Specifically: They didn’t think David Tennant was a sexy enough Casanova, and shockingly, they thought the same of international British star Benedict Cumberbatch, who apparently lacked a certain sex appeal.
“They said of casting David Tennant as Casanova, ‘Damn, you should have cast someone sexier,’” Moffat said.
“With Benedict Cumberbatch, we were told the same thing. “You promised us a sexy Sherlock, not him,” the BBC said about the casting, according to Moffat.
Although Tennant and Cumberbatch’s features are each chiseled in a somewhat idiosyncratic way, each has become a heart-throb, with Cumberbatch even prompting an online army of ‘Cumberbitches’, in thrall to his every movement.
Moffat wryly lamented the actor’s success, saying, “It can be quite annoying too if you’re scheduling a damn show.”
The next series of “Sherlock” won’t emerge for another two years thanks to scheduling difficulties with its key players.
In the meantime, Cumberbatch will tackle a brace of Shakespeare heavyweights in Hamlet at the UK’s Barbican Theater and Richard III on BBC2. Cumberbatch, is also in talks to play the brother of organized crime lord Whitey Bulger opposite Johnny Depp in a biopic.
Oe-er, he sounds busy… Not so elementary for someone without any, er, sex appeal!
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