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Does this 16-year-old kid really look like Benedict Cumberbatch?

For months now, I’ve been ignoring this kid. There’s been a lot of press surrounding this “Benedict Cumberbatch lookalike” boy named Tyler Michell. He’s a little English guy and he’s only 16 years old. I didn’t want to cover it because it felt like it was just a weird viral blip and I didn’t think Tyler was really “in” on it. But as it turns out, Tyler wants the attention and he’s giving interviews now. Interviews about how he looks sort of like a young Benedict Cumberbatch. You can see Tyler’s Instagram here (please remember he’s just 16 and like many 16-year-old boys, he thinks period jokes are hilarious).

Does he have a passing resemblance to Bendy? Sure. Maybe this is my American-ness talking, but I tend to think there are probably a lot of dudes in England with a passing resemblance to Bendy. Seriously, there are so many pale guys with high cheekbones and weak chins. But Tyler is special, I guess. He already has 19,000 followers on Instagram and he’s giving interviews about their likeness. He told The Telegraph (via People):

“It started out as a joke – my close friends and family would tease me and say I looked like Benedict Cumberbatch. I guess I look like him a little, but I really didn’t take it seriously. Now people are messaging me and saying I should have won the Oscar. I get girls from Brazil saying they want to meet me in the U.K., which is crazy as I’m just a teenage boy sitting at home … I’m a huge fan of Benedict, but I don’t think I look like him.”

[From People]

It would be interesting to see how far a kid could go just by looking sort of like Benedict Cumberbatch. Like, if Gatiss and Moffat do any more Sherlock flashback scenes, would they hire Tyler? If Benedict is doing a film where they need brief scenes of him as a teenager, would they hire Tyler?

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Photos courtesy of Tyler’s Instagram, WENN.

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