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Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's 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 at the detention center without charge until he was ultimately released in 2016. Speaking to The I...

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, I was thinking, ‘Oh my God, was I actually patient zero?’” Cumberbatch told The Independent...

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 million per detainee per year and the lack of prosecutions that have come out of the facility. “...

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 torture. Franco-Algerian star Tahar Rahim plays Salahi; Jodie Foster plays Hollander and Shailene Woo...

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 Surgeons initiative back in April. Emma – who previously fitted Benedict, 44, for shirts onscreen an...