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Benedict Cumberbatch

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?
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Alternatives Dream Give Up
I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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Discipline Reading Sports
I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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Drag Needs Stuff
I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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Abnormal Appetite Wells
[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It’s an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It’s great. Yeah, I’m excited.
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Character Doctor Meals
I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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Land Oil Titles
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 know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a “political exile,” as he calls himself.
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Determination House Men
I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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Book Character Thinking
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
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Grandfather Tanks War
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 feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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Actors Perception Television Views Well
Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.
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Joy Looks Reading
You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it’s almost inhuman. So, that’s been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.
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Boys Play Practice
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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Medicine Thinking Two
Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
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Character Doctors Stories

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