On the heels of screenwriter Graham Moore’s moving Oscars speech for his role in creating “The Imitation Game,” the family of the film’s protagonist, late mathematician Alan Turing, is demanding justice.
More than 60 years after their British ancestor died, the family is fighting for others who, like Turing, experienced mistreatment because of their sexual orientation.
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Benedict Cumberbatch, who was nominated for an Oscar for portraying Turing in the film, also joined the call for action last month.
“Alan Turing was not only prosecuted, but quite arguably persuaded to end his own life early, by a society who called him a criminal for simply seeking out the love he deserved, as all human beings do,” he wrote in an email to The Hollywood Reporter. “Sixty years later, that same government claimed to ‘forgive’ him by pardoning him. I find this deplorable, because Turing’s actions did not warrant forgiveness — theirs did — and the 49,000 other prosecuted men deserve the same.”
