It’s a difficult one to talk about,” he admitted to Variety when asked about one of the controversial lines. “I’ve had to apologise for that quite a lot.” After the first trailer dropped in 2015,

Cumberbatch admitted: "It got misunderstood, I upset people, and I respect that, so I probably wouldn’t do that again now” The post Benedict Cumberbatch regrets his nonbinary character: ‘I upset people’ appeared first on Attitude.

Of course, even well-regarded actors have lapses in judgment — which is where Benedict's turn as a non-binary character in the 2016 flop Zoolander 2 comes in. In the film, Benedict played a NB model named All — and people were,

In a recent interview, Benedict Cumberbatch acknowledged his Zoolander 2 role sparked controversy, saying he wouldn’t take on such a role today.