The Celebrity I Want to Meet

If I have a chance to meet any celebrity, I would use this chance to meet the British actor, Benedict Cumberbatch.

Like most people, I know him from the BBC TV series, Sherlock. In this series, he plays the main role, the well-known detective, Sherlock Holmes. Distinguished from other countless recreations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original story, Sherlock talks about Sherlock and his friend John Watson in a setting of modern London. Although the TV series only contains about 10 episodes, I have found it is so fascinating and delicate that I have watched each episode so many times since being introduced to this great actor, Benedict Cumberbatch.

Benedict Cumberbatch was born in 1976 and is 39 years old. Being in middle age and not having a stunning appearance, he is not a typical idol that teenage girls scream at; however, his education and manner make his acting extraordinary. Benedict graduated from the University of Manchester and continued his training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and played many famous plays on stage besides being on TV and in movie productions, for example: William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. I feel this experience has made him a great actor and has introduced us his moving acting.

I’d like to meet Benedict Cumberbatch because, firstly, he is one of my favorite actors; also, he was abducted in South Africa in 2005. After being set free, Benedict began to practice the Buddhist philosophy. There is a rumor that he is a supporter of Tibetan independence movement, so as a Chinese person and being familiar with Buddhist culture, I feel it would be really interesting to communicate with my favorite actor on this topic.

The Thing I Like About Myself?

As a person that is not so confident and satisfied about myself, the first reaction to answer this question is “nothing”. However, I know that is not true because nice things can always be found in everybody’s personality.

So back to the question, my answer is, I like my passion of reading books and thinking. This doesn’t mean that I keep thinking what Plato, Freud and Einstein thought and despise “meaningless” random chat; on the contrary, this character trait of mine lets me appreciate the joy of daily life.

To explain this empty claim of this “passion”, I’d like to say I have loved reading since I was a kid and was known for reading every second and everywhere. As I grow up, mobile phones and computers seem take over a little bit, but lying on the bed or sitting on the sofa and reading books  without distractions is still the best thing in a day.

I love this trait about me because reading shows me the charm of knowledge. To illustrate, I want to share my experience with the Rosetta Stone. I read about the Rosetta Stone in the most widely-considered boring history textbooks, and it is basically a stone in ancient Egypt with three languages on it. The stone helped archaeologists to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs. The stone was just be an ordinary history term in my memory until I visited a museum in Houston which displayed the Rosetta Stone. Although that was only a replica, the whole exhibit made more sense to me. All the facts I learned connected with things I was seeing. I talked about them with my friend. She said, “That sounds interesting. The only history I can remember all happened in this century.” I felt bad about her and the previous me for not feeling the same excitement I was enjoying.

So, here this the thing I like about myself. I hope I will keep reading for the rest of my life.

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