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I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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Embarrassing Meltdowns

We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.

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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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Actors
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
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Tanks
When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.

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When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn’t feel like you’re falling: it feels like you’re floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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Feet Floating
I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.

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I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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Doctors
Live a life less ordinary.

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Live a life less ordinary.
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Less Ordinary
Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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Hair Knees Sensitive
As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

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As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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Real
I don’t wear a mask, I don’t have a suit. It’s not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!
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Doctors
I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.

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I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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Boys
There are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.
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Coats Given Hats
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.

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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.
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Bars Real
Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.

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Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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Arses Bigs Toned
When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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Kids Settled
It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he’s doing all right and then you realise that there’s one massive lesson to learn.
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Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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Doctors Next
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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Expression

I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.

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