"I’m the biggest prankster. I convinced Benedict Cumberbatch that he had to wear special cream when we worked in this facility on the movie otherwise he’d get radiation poisoning. He, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana put it on. Me and Chris Pine played this joke on virtually the whole cast. It was called Neutron Cream and the whole crew was in on it. We had little pots of it made. Benedict did an entire morning shoot with dots (of cream) all over his face, which was a joy."

- Simon Pegg, on playing pranks during the filming of Star Trek here. (via phunkyvanspam)

Wow Bramblepatch Rumplenuts really is an insufferable douche huh

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I’ll admit that Downton Abbey, especially in its second season, is not exactly the most brilliant work of dramatic art ever produced, but really?:

Benedict Cumberbatch has called Downton Abbey “f****** atrocious” as his rival period drama is about to hit our screens.

He said: “We’re remembering that there was a world before the First World War. We’re living in a culture now that’s revering, or having a nostalgia trip with, the beginning of the 1900s.

“Although Downton traded a lot on the sentiment in the last series… but we won’t talk about that series because it was, in my opinion, f****** atrocious.”

It’s interesting that this comes right after one of the actors from Downton Abbey tweeted a link to that article telling him to stfu with his whining about “posh-bashing”

But whatever, the second season really was kind of a letdown (although it was still, I think, good overall), that’s not the really gross part of this

This is:

Asked if he feared that Parade’s End would be seen as a similar type of drama when it begins later this month, Cumberbatch replied: “There was that fear, yes. I thought, ‘Are we pandering to a taste?’

“But this is so much more sophisticated, so much more unusual. You rarely see a piece about this class of people that’s this accurate, funny and pointed.

“We’re not making some clichéd comment: ‘Oh, isn’t it awful the way there’s this upstairs-downstairs divide.’ This is about class and love, an elegy to a dying era.”

“There was a social structure that had to be adhered to… Everyone was held in their place, but what was honourable about it was that there was a duty of care from the top down.”

Ah yes, those halcyon days when everyone was honorably ~in their place~

Go cry with Piers Morgan about how England needs to be an empire again