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Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out whats clicking today in entertainment. Benedict Cumberbatch says he plans to call on Joe Biden to close Guantanamo Bay after studying the prison for his latest movie "The Mauritanian."  The actor produced the drama and portrays Lt. Colonel Stuart Couch. "The Mauritanian" is based on the memoir by real-life Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was suspected of organizing the 9/11 attacks and spent 14 years...

Benedict Cumberbatch Says He Thinks He May Have Been Patient Zero For COVID-19 The star fell ill while filming "The Mauritanian," a drama about a man detained in Guantanamo Bay for 14 years, at the end of 2019. Benedict Cumberbatch has opened up about not being sure whether he contracted COVID-19 and his role in a film about a man who was detained at Guantanamo Bay without charge for 14 years.  “I was incredibly ill, to the point that when all this COVID stuff suddenly broke in the new year,...

Marvel’s Avengers star Benedict Cumberbatch says he wants President Joe Biden to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention center after working on the film The Mauritanian. Doctor Strange star told The Independent about his desire to speak with Biden on the issue. The detention center, situated in a small section of Cuba, was established after the brutal terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, to hold accused terrorists caught making plans to attack the U.S. Cumberbatch criticized the reported $13...

Mag The Weekly We were disappointed by this well-meaning movie, based on the true story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi from Mauritania in north-west Africa. A former muhajideen anti-communist fighter in Afghanistan in the 1990s, who was picked up and handed over to the US authorities after 9/11 and kept at Guantánamo Bay without charge or trial for a staggering 14 years, from 2002 to 2016; he was released when the state finally accepted his confessions were valueless, having been obtained through t...

Speaking to the Independent.co.uk, he explained: “I was incredibly ill, to the point that when all this COVID stuff suddenly broke in the new year, I was thinking, oh my god, was I actually patient zero. I was so ill – it was borderline pneumonia.” It was previously revealed Benedict donated £12 000 (R243 705) to buy hospital scrubs. Benedict Cumberbatch’s Style for Surgeons donation The generous star got in touch with Savile Row tailor Emma Willis after she launched her Style For Su...

Rating: 4 out of 5. In 2002, Mohamedou Ould Salahi arrived in Guantanamo Bay prison, Cuba, deemed by the Americans to be the mastermind behind 9/11. It would be 14 years before Salahi would prove his innocence and eventually return to his home country of Mauritania. The Mauritanian tells the story of Salahi (Tahar Rahim) and his lawyers Nancy Hollander (Jodie Foster) and Teri Duncan (Shailene Woodley) and their fight for justice against a country seeking vengeance for the September 11 attacks....

Benedict Cumberbatch wants Guantanamo Bay shut down after working on The Mauritanian © Roy Rochlin/Getty Images The Academy Award-nominated actor also says he feared he was COVID-19 "patient zero" in a new interview. Benedict Cumberbatch plans to ask Joe Biden to shut down Guantanamo Bay after learning the prison facilitys secrets while working on the 2021 film "Hoping? Im going to plead with the guy," the Academy Award-nominated actor said in an interview with The Independent about his int...

April 4, 2021 at 10:10 am Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 50, has never been convicted of any crime or even charged with any offence. Nevertheless, he spent 14 years of captivity in Americas notorious Guantanamo Bay prison, where he was beaten, sexually humiliated, waterboarded, subject to mock executions, and electrocuted repeatedly. "They tried to force me to confess for a crime I did not commit," he explained to me. "I was deprived of sleep and interrogated for the first seventy days, as well as pre...

Rating: The notion of an irresistible force confronting an immovable object has excited storytellers for centuries, and now we have Warner Brothers to thank for abbreviating it to Godzilla vs Kong. We can doubtless expect this film title to pop up in the context of sport, politics, business and heaven knows what else for years to come. In truth, it is not the first cinematic showdown between the Hairy One and the Scaly One. They first squared off in the 1962 Japanese film King Kong vs Godzilla...

Is there any image in the post 9/11 conspiracy drama genre more ubiquitous than heavily redacted legal files? Those black lines struck through word after word like blocks of thunder smothering all sense of intelligent life. They represent the hopeless struggle of men and women stolen from the world and suspended in a bureaucratic limbo that Kafka himself would find hard pressed to imagine. In Kevin Macdonald’s adaptation of Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Salahi, The Mauritanian, we are ...