I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.
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Lines are very difficult to learn.
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I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
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That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
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The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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I tell my wife all my secrets.
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Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad’s performance of the book.
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I think playing any iconic role when you’re stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can’t process that.
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It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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Any irrational fears?no, i’m quite a rationalist. i’m not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.
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Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the ’60s and ’70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.
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Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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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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It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
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[on BBC’s Sherlock] It’s a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It’s a form of mental and physical gymnastics.
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