35 h. ago Benedict Cumberbatch says things 'got nasty' between him and Olivia Colman during filming

Benedict Cumberbatch has revealed that the toxic nature of the characters in his new film spilled into real life with his co-star and friend Olivia Colman

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62 h. ago Benedict Cumberbatch reveals his friendship with The Roses co

The actor, 49, stars alongside Olivia, 51, in The Roses, which is a remake of the original 1989 movie The War of the Roses.

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3 d. ago Benedict Cumberbatch looks smitten with his wife Sophie Hunter as he joins co

The Sherlock star, 49, arrived at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London on Thursday for the premiere of the remake of the 1989 Hollywood classic War Of The Roses.

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6 d. ago The Roses review: cartoonishly insane, even if both characters are unlikeable

Ingenuity is not the order of the day here - just as well Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch are excellent

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6 d. ago The Roses review – Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch are relentlessly entertaining

In this remake of 1989’s ‘The War of the Roses’, which charts the breakdown of a marriage, desire and disgust become one

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6 d. ago The Roses review – dieback blights Colman and Cumberbatch remake

Both British actors are let down by the overly glossy, romcom-y sheen of this update of Warren Adler’s 1980s novel about a spectacularly toxic marriageOlivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch, the two most prestigious English screen actors in the world, resoundingly butt heads in this feel-bad movie; it is oddly, but not uninterestingly, composed throughout in feelgood romcom style. In casting terms, this is a Borg-McEnroe 10-set tie-break leading to play being suspended even as the leads bring every microlitre of their technique to the game.They play Ivy and Theo, two high-achieving professionals whose marriage becomes a black-comic Chornobyl of toxic hate; it is adapted from the 1981 novel The War of the Roses by Warren Adler, which was previously filmed in 1989 with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. Tony McNamara writes this new version and the director is Jay Roach, known for Austin Powers and Meet the Parents. Colman and Cumberbatch are acting black-belts and they are never an...

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