Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you’re doing an origin story there’s a lot of room for manoeuvre.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWhen 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 am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I’ve played. He’s lost the power to love, which doesn’t make him a nasty person. I just think he’s closed-off.
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I’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.
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You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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Live a life less ordinary.
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The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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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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As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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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.
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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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You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
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Do awards change careers? Well, I haven’t heard of many stories where that’s the case. It’s a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who’ve done well that year in certain people’s eyes, and it’s nothing more than that.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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