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Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.

Benedict Cumberbatch

New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.
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Beautiful Country Crazy
Laughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
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Cry Laughing Musician
I don’t wear a mask, I don’t have a suit. It’s not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!
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Character Doctors Suffering
I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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Psychopath Research Sociopath
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
There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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Bureaucracy Century Mediocrity
It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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Giggle Paid Stills
I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.
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Kings Opposites Real
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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Done Drama Periods
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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Affection Charming More Persons
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
It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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Glimpse Outside People Realize
Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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Character Doctors Next
There are other people who don’t mind shouting from the pulpit and being judged for it, and they do a hell of a lot of good – real, on-the-ground, life-changing good. So I think it can sometimes be a balancing act.
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People Real Thinking
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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Actor Class Looks
Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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Arses Bigs Toned

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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