Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you’re doing an origin story there’s a lot of room for manoeuvre.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I’m ripped, doing something I wouldn’t normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.
![Benedict Cumberbatch Quote - It’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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/its-one-of-the-things-that-attracted-me-to-the-rol.jpg)
![Benedict Cumberbatch Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/i-understand-from-those-who-adore-him-he-julian-as.jpg)
![Benedict Cumberbatch Quote - I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/i-wanted-to-take-the-audience-on-a-journey-where-t.jpg)
![Benedict Cumberbatch Quote - You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/youd-have-to-be-pretty-hard-nosed-not-to-feel-some.jpg)
![Benedict Cumberbatch Quote - [Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/doctor-strange-gets-scraped-off-the-floor-and-then.jpg)
