It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he’s doing all right and then you realise that there’s one massive lesson to learn.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHYou’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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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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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 wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don’t really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it’s not fair that others aren’t doing exactly what you’re doing. I do have that.
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Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
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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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I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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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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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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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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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
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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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My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad’s performance of the book.
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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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