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I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.

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Fighting

We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.

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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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Actors
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
There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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Bureaucracy Century Mediocrity
One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.

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One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Actors Best Meritocracy Things
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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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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Actors Stories
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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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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We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
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Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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Doctors Next
We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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Fighting
I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

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I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
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Actors Theatre
I want to be better at staying connected.
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Connected Staying
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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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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Acting Drama
There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.

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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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Actors
I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.
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Bigger Fantastic
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 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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Drama Periods
Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

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Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
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Sadness Way

I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.

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