I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIt’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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It’s one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it’s a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there’s the whole chapter before where he’s the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It’s fantastic.
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I’m aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don’t email saying, “When are we doing next film?” I’m excited to see.
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As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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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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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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Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
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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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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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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.
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As an actor, to be part of that story’s [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I’ve enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I’m getting to have a go myself.
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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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I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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