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For Benedict Cumberbatch<\/strong>, getting the role as the newest Star Trek<\/em> baddie meant a bit of work during his Christmas vacation.<\/p>\n Last December, while on Christmas break in Gloucestershire, England, Cumberbatch got the word that J.J. Abrams<\/strong> wanted a videotaped audition from him for a role in Star Trek 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n “I got a call before Christmas Eve saying that they’re very interested in you playing the not-so-good guy in the next Star Trek<\/em> film,” said Cumberbatch. “Can you get yourself on tape?”<\/p>\n But the time of the year meant it was difficult for Cumberbatch to find someone to help him with filming the videotape audition. “So I rang some friends of mine \u2013 and when I say friends, I mean the top casting directors in England who were all on holiday because we observe this little Judeo-Christian cult holiday called Christmas,” said Cumberbatch. “Whereas, you know, some kids in this part of town [Los Angeles], with their Crackberrys, don’t. And the demands were coming in so fast, I was like, ‘this is terrifying.’ And by the 27th, people were knocking on the door, literally, and saying I’ve got to put myself on tape.”<\/p>\n Cumberbatch finally found some help and got the audition video completed, only to find out that some people in L.A. did indeed celebrate that little Judeo-Christian cult holiday. “I sent it to him,” said Cumberbatch, “and then I got told, ‘J.J.’s on holiday.’<\/p>\n “I was furious,” said Cumberbatch. “And then I heard on the day after New Year’s Day…then he just sent me an e-mail, going, ‘You want to come and play?’ I said, ‘What does this mean? Are you in town, you want to go for a drink? I’m English; you’ve got to be really straight with me on this. Have I got the part?'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For Benedict Cumberbatch, getting the role as the newest Star Trek baddie meant a bit…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2689],"tags":[3928],"class_list":["post-16726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xii","tag-cumberbatch"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a> Star Trek Into Darkness<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Into Darkness","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16744,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16726\/revisions\/16744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}