Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a “political exile,” as he calls himself.
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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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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHYou 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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I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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It’s an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who’s likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He’s funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It’s a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.
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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHDo I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.
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I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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I was never geeky about anything.
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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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I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
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I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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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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