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I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I’m ripped, doing something I wouldn’t normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Cumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Monday Morning Names
Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Care Crazy Doctor Ideal
I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Medicine Superpower Thinking
My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Jobs School Silly
Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Class Mean Wealth
Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you’re doing an origin story there’s a lot of room for manoeuvre.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Doctors Stories
I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Bars Play Real
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Dad Hard Mum
We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Fighting Reality War
Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Hard Privacy Thing
I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Alternatives Dream Give Up
I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Assange Opinion Wells
I don’t live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I’m in the situation where it’s been given to me, but I’m very conscious of what is wasteful.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Luxury Mean Privilege
Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Hair Knees Policy Sensitive
I’m interested in art for all. I don’t want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Art Daughter Son
As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Life Real Role

I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I’m ripped, doing something I wouldn’t normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.

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