The Director Who Told Benedict Cumberbatch He Was Wrong About Sherlock Holmes. Cumberbatch Proved Him Right.
2026/06/29
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The Director Who Told Benedict Cumberbatch He Was Wrong About Sherlock Holmes. Cumberbatch Proved Him Right.
Paul McGuigan directed six episodes across the first two series of Sherlock and is credited, by most production accounts, as establishing the visual language of the show — the text-on-screen graphics, the close-in examination sequences, the specific way the camera moves when Holmes is thinking.
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He and Cumberbatch had a relationship that was, by both their accounts, genuinely productive and occasionally genuinely contentious.
The disagreement that has been referenced most often occurred during the filming of . It concerned a specific choice Cumberbatch was making in how Holmes responds to his first meeting with Watson — a quality of openness, almost warmth, that McGuigan felt was too much too soon.
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