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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

The world of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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  I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.

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  Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.

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  An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that’s what happens to all surgeons, I think. There’s a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.

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