I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHMarvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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I haven’t done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you’re most recently famed for, so I’m careful of not repeating myself.
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[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You’re talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can’t see in front of you and would walk into everything dark.
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My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.
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Do awards change careers? Well, I haven’t heard of many stories where that’s the case. It’s a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who’ve done well that year in certain people’s eyes, and it’s nothing more than that.
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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 don’t want to miss things.
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The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
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[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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I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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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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