Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you’re doing an origin story there’s a lot of room for manoeuvre.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIt’s one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it’s a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there’s the whole chapter before where he’s the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It’s fantastic.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
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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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There’s another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
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Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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I’m aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don’t email saying, “When are we doing next film?” I’m excited to see.
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Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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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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One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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