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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I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in “I have cumberbatched the UK audience” apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It’s crazy and fun and very flattering.
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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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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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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
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I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
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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 struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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I tell my wife all my secrets.
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