The closest Benedict Cumberbatch ever got to playing James Bond

The closest Benedict Cumberbatch ever got to playing James Bond

Is anyone else a little exhausted with the James Bond discourse? Maybe it was Daniel Craig’s two-decade run at Britain’s favourite spy or the lengthy wait for his successor, thanks to the bureaucracy of the movie rights. Either way, something about this lull between Bonds has felt as tiresome as any other, with names supposedly nailed onto the position just to step forward and rule it out.  When Aaron Taylor-Johnson was all but confirmed, I look…