Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it’s so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.

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Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it’s so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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Intelligent

[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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Meals
I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own – they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
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I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.

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I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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Persons Pregnant
My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.

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My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
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Jobs Silly
I’m interested in art for all. I don’t want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.

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I’m interested in art for all. I don’t want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
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Daughter Son
As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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Real
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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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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Awkward Transition
[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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Doctors
Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.
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Looks
[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.

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[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
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Dark Details
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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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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Real
My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.

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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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Motivation Parent
Lines are very difficult to learn.

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Lines are very difficult to learn.
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Learn Lines
Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.

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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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Getting Older
I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

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I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
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Silly
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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Landing Roles Surprising

Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it’s so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.

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