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Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.

Benedict Cumberbatch

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
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Grandfather Tanks War
I’m excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
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Ends Excited might
I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.
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Disaster Much
It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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Father Married Wonderful
I 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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Determination House Men
I haven’t done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you’re most recently famed for, so I’m careful of not repeating myself.
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Done Drama Periods
I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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Able Play Want
There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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Actors Lying Shame
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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Character Doctors Stories
[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he’s very loved by people who know him.
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Doctors Men People
When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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Enough Kids Settled
You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it’s almost inhuman. So, that’s been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.
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Boys Play Practice
Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They’re all “physically inhabited,” for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
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Character Expression Play
I’d love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You’re treading on very thin ice.
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Character Ice Thinking
[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
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Doctors Hell Strange
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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Enjoy Journey

Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.

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Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.

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