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Benedict Cumberbatch

Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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Doctor Saving Selfish
Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you’re doing an origin story there’s a lot of room for manoeuvre.
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Character Doctors Stories
I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.
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Fun Important Out Work
I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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Emotional People Response
I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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Doctors Strange Thinking
I’ve done a bit of live action before but the fight sequences, the wire work and the physical regime were taken to another level [ in Doctor Strange].
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Doctors Fighting Taken
Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it’s so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.
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Important Intelligent Thinking
I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.
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Kings Opposites Real
The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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Film Lessons Strange
We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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Actors Circumstances Want
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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Challenges Comfort Fun
I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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Children Persons Reality
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
Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the ’60s and ’70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.
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Character Identity Strong
I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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Away Feels Life Own
You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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