I seriously doubt it. There's a reason I posted that pic. Thrawn, as I recall, is calm and understated. I didn't like Cumberpatch as Khan or Sherlock, he doesn't do smart characters well (which is what Thrawn is). The only Cumberpatch performance I've seen and found satisfactory was Smaug, who was a hammy, egotistical sort of villain.
Its the voice and the face. While I haven't seen him do something besides Sherlock, Smaug, and Khan, I think he could pull it off.
If I remember correctly, there were some spots in Into Darkness where Khan was calm.
I dunno. Most actors probably couldn't do Thrawn, actually: perpetually calm for a lot of actors would be stone-faced and emotionless, while a good Thrawn would have subtlety of posture, demeanor, and expression. Cumberpatch's Sherlock performance is superficially similar but it's kind of... opaque. His deductions just kind of pop out of thin air, you don't get the sense that there's a keen intellect behind the face producing all these brilliant observations.
Granted, it's been a long time since I've seen that show, so maybe I'm misremembering.
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Granted, it's been a long time since I've seen that show, so maybe I'm misremembering.
For the most part you are right. I like the show a lot but mostly for the character play. The actual deductions are more or less what I call "Monk Magic", as shown in the TV show Monk where the name giving neurotic but highly functioning detective would look at a crime scene and in an isntant magically pick up all the clues nobody else in the world was able to spot.
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Granted, it's been a long time since I've seen that show, so maybe I'm misremembering.
For the most part you are right. I like the show a lot but mostly for the character play. The actual deductions are more or less what I call "Monk Magic", as shown in the TV show Monk where the name giving neurotic but highly functioning detective would look at a crime scene and in an isntant magically pick up all the clues nobody else in the world was able to spot.
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