Benedict Cumberbatch attends the “Black Mass” Virgin Atlantic Gala screening during the BFI London Film Festival, at Odeon Leicester Square on October 11, 2015 in London, England.
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Sherlock: The Abominable Bride will take place in the Victorian era, yet the special nearly didn’t happen. Now, Sherlock Holmes is back for a one-off Christmas special, where we will see him and his pal Dr. Watson in a Victorian setting. “It’s so nice to play him in his era”.
In an interview with The Independent, Benedict added that going back to the world of Arthur Conan Doyle’s was “easier” than playing the modern version – a man who is meant to be “slightly out of his time”.
The star of the global hit also told how he’d loved dressing up as the old style Holmes, calling it “great, great fun”.
Meanwhile, a report from Daily Mail reveals that Sherlockians will have a hard time to crack one of the clues in the “Sherlock” Victorian special, except if you can read Chinese.
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride is set to air on New Year’s Day.
You can see a collection of new images from the episode by clicking into the gallery at the top of this page.
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Of course, that’s simply conjecture at this stage, and the fact that the official synopsis for the episode references Rupert Graves’ Inspector Lestrade despite his absence from today’s character one-sheets indicates that there’s still plenty we don’t about Sherlock: The Abominable Bride and the twists and turns that await. One of them you have got to have the ability to speak Chinese language to get.’Sherlock is one of a lot of British shows in that are banned from showing on the Chinese language Central Tv network its sexual content. However tens of millions of individuals nonetheless stream it on-line & get their fix of Sherlock Holmes.
