Stage door story: (this happened between 19 - 23 Oct, I can’t remember)So if I recall correctl

Stage door story: (this happened between 19 - 23 Oct, I can’t remember)So if I recall correctly, that night benedict came out to stage door pretty late, almost around 11pm. Usually if it was that late, he would either not do stage door OR even if he does do stage door, he’ll rush through it and do it quickly. That night, he really took his time with every single person. He even agreed to take selfies (on most nights if he’s tired or not in the mood, he won’t take selfies. So the fact that he did selfies this time really surprised me considering how late it was already)I was standing at the front row towards the middle. There were two girls on my on my right whom i talked to while waiting and it was all nice & good fun. But when benedict came to our side, the two girls were so demanding and so fucking rude to benedict that they literally pissed me off. Let’s call them girl 1 and girl 2. Ben already signed their hamlet program books and he was busy trying to sign everyone else’s books at the back, so Ben was signing and slowly walking down the line. And then girl 1 & 2 screamed AT him, telling him they wanted a selfie. So Ben leaned in to their camera, took the selfie and all is well, right? Wrong. After Ben took the selfie, he was frantically busy signing again and the girls once again screamed at him “NO no no we’re not done, Ben come back, we’re not done yet!” (I was already quite pissed off at them coz they weren’t asking him for a favour, they were DEMANDING him) So while signing , Ben asked them “have you got your cameras ready?” They said yes, Ben leaned in again and took the picture. By now Ben was slowly getting close to signing my sketchbook and then girl 2 shouted again at him “Wait no I haven’t taken a selfie yet! Ben come back, we’re not done” And for the love of god, BEN ACTUALLY COMPLIED AND TOOK ANOTHER SELFIE WITH THOSE RUDE PEOPLE AND HE DIDN’T EVEN COMPLAIN HE SIMPLY LOOKED SO TIRED THAT HE HAD NO STRENGTH TO FIGHT AND SAY NO I honestly can’t believe how patient Benedict was!! I felt so angry on his behalf, i felt so sorry for him – and there he is still so calm and patient and complying to what his fans asked for (no matter how fucking rude they were!) At that point I just felt so bad for Ben, it’s already so late (11.20pm) and he’s nowhere near finished doing stage door and yet he’s so patient putting up with this kind of crap rude “fans”. So any intentions of selfies or to strike a conversation with him I had just vanished coz i felt so bad for him. So I silently had my hand outstretched to make sure he doesn’t accidentally skip signing my sketch (coz there were loads of books stacked above my sketch and over my head. Despite standing right at the front i couldn’t see ben’s face at all because there were books over my head blocking my view)And then through the gaps between the books over my head, i saw that ben was getting to my turn. I expected him to scrawl his autograph and proceed to the next book coz he probably wants to go home asap right? But that’s not what he did. He paused when he saw my sketch, then he crouched down, trying to find my face between the gaps of program books. (I was so confused at first, why was he crouching? And then when i realized his face was between books looking at me, I was really surprised) He asked me “did you draw this?” I said yes. He said “this is really amazing” and signed it. I thanked him (but ofc i sounded like a blubbering idiot saying OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH) and he proceeded doing the rest of stage door that nightmy point is Ben is honestly a really good, humbled guy. He could’ve said no to the rude fans, but he remained patient. He could’ve quickly signed mine, get the whole stage door over and done with that night, but he didn’t. He took his time. To crouch down, to find my face, to talk to me, look at me in the eye and compliment my sketch before signing it. He takes his time to appreciate what his fans do for him, and that’s really sweet imo -- source link

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