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Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.

Benedict Cumberbatch

All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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About People Stories Talk
As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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Life Real Role
Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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Character Doctors Next
I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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Goodbye Kissing Years
There’s another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
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Eye Promotion Weight
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.
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Fighting Reality War
I was never geeky about anything.
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Anything Greek
It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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Cynical Kind Skills
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
Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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Hard Privacy Thing
I think I’ve had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I’ve said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
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Emotional Sometimes Thinking
There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you’d rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you’ve got to have fun with it.
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Awkward Fun Self
People always want to knock you when you’re up.
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Always Knock People Want
When you’re a kid, ‘Star Trek’ is a slower burn. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it – which is its universal appeal, I think.
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Kids Maturity Stars
People’s hands fascinate me. It’s tempting to look at a businessman’s left hand and see if there’s an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there’s a tan line and the skin is pressed down where’s he’s worked a ring off his finger.
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Hands Missing People
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

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Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.

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