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I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Live a life less ordinary.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Brain Less Ordinary
[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
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Afraid Dark Details
I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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Always Giving Help Support Up
I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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Embarrassing Meltdowns Struggle
I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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Butterfly Long Obsessed
I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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Acting Drama School
Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They’re all “physically inhabited,” for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
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Character Expression Play
You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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Running Trying Wizardry
I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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Brought Privilege World
It’s the same thing, I think, whether it’s breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.
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Running Thinking Yoga
I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.
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Fighting Girl War
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
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Farce School Theatre
As an actor, to be part of that story’s [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I’ve enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I’m getting to have a go myself.
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Actors Fans Stories
I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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Book Character Thinking
As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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Life Real Role
The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.
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Numbers People Soul

I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.

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