Benedict Cumberbatch wore a wig in the Sherlock special
The actor's first and only response to the idea of a wig was, "can I have my hair cut?"
Published: Friday, 11 March 2016 at 1:13 pm
See Benedict Cumberbatch's slick, combed-back hair in The Abominable Bride?
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That's his real hair. But this? This is a wig.
How do we know? Well, in this post-mortem of the Victorian-set Sherlock special, Amanda Abbington, Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat and Sue Vertue discuss behind-the-scenes details like this, revealing that Cumberbatch's first and only response to the idea of a wig was, "can I have my hair cut?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c69JbEydyI
So he didn't like having all that tousled Sherlock hair quite as much as his fans like seeing it, then...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8LWfc29J_E
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