[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWhen I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.
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I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
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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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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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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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Any irrational fears?no, i’m quite a rationalist. i’m not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.
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I keep myself amused and others confused
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I’ve been reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.
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I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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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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I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
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Live a life less ordinary.
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[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I’ve played. He’s lost the power to love, which doesn’t make him a nasty person. I just think he’s closed-off.
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