Benedict Cumberbatch Picks Olivia Colman As New Watson？ ｜ THE ROSES (2025) Interview

If Sherlock were to return, do you have a character that you think Olivia would be perfectly suited to play? Yes, great! John Watson's sister, maybe John's not around and his sister is. Things are getting a little out of hand. What do you think? I would like to note that I have placed myself in front of the great chandelier falling of 2025. Oh, look at that! Yes, you have! I'm not figuring that out. I was very concerned. Oh, I see, that is the kitchen. And that is not soap suds, that's breaking glass. Yeah. I need glasses. Okay, fine. I was super concerned for everyone's well-being in this movie, but absolutely loved it. What a film. Thank you very much. And all of my questions are, I think they're ridiculous. Brilliant, bring it on. Such as, if you were planning a completely fake murder, how would you do it? This is great, that is an original question. Yeah, poison someone with an allergy. That's not very original, is it? I do that in a film, that's what I try to do. Pretty good though. Well, the ultimate perfect murder is an icicle, isn't it? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Icicle through the body because there's no fingerprints. It's scary the way you know this. Watching out for you in winter. You did come up with it rather fast as well. I did, didn't I? I know. Well, the mushrooms, that's taken care of. Unfortunately, someone's done that. Yeah, that's been done. The icicle, just saw it off a bit and get someone to stand underneath it. It was straight through the head. Wow. God, what's wrong with me? A lot. I mean, I only have three minutes, Olivia. Okay, sorry. And I actually wanted to ask you, if Sherlock were to return, do you have a character that you think Olivia would be perfectly suited to play? Yes, great. In Sherlock, kind of done Irene Adler. Oh, God, the canon is a bit blurry. It's been a while. You'll have to get back to me when I reread the entire Adventures of. Okay. But I think possibly... Can you remember anyone that you want to play? We could just write a new one. Oh, yeah. Let's just get Mark and Stephen to write a new one. Done. Get that slate clean and you come in and just shock everyone with this brand new character. I'd quite like to be sort of like a jester character who seems like an idiot. John Watson's sister. Maybe John's not around and his sister is. Yes, yes. Yeah, yeah. Do you own an item from a noteworthy person, a la the stove in this film? In our family bathroom, there's a very lovely wooden mirror, which Meryl Streep looked into when she was playing the Iron Lady. And at the end of the job, they had a big sale of stuff because... And I went, I'll have that. And I love it. Of course, you were in that. Yeah. Carol Thatcher, very good as well. How wonderful. Yeah, that's quite cool. Listen, anything that you and Meryl have looked into, yeah. I'm going to steal that next time I'm around. Where's my reflection? You're too heavy, I will notice. It'll start speaking to me if I steal it. Yeah, you're not the fairest. No, sadly not. No, I'm not good at that. I mean, you know, gold from Smaug's lair, maybe. Oh, that's cool. Oh, yeah, that was a very casual thing to say. That's pretty great. That's quite cool. That's amazing. Big thumbs up. A pipe from Sherlock Holmes when I did the flashback to Victorian times, or not flashback, but the mind palette, whatever that was. This is good stuff. And I do have a herringbone coat from one of the Belstaff coats that I wore in the modern version. Yeah, bits of costume sometimes. In fact, almost all of my costume from Power of the Dog, which is a bit troubling. Strutting around as Phil Burbank, again, digging potatoes.