I had a very sparse comic upbringing – not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’m excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
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[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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I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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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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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.
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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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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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I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he’s dealing with such serious issues.
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Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
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For brain surgeons it’s particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
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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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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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