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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.

Benedict Cumberbatch

We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.
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Medicine Thinking Two
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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Dad Hard Mum
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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People Shoes Thinking
Lines are very difficult to learn.
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Difficult Learn Lines
I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.
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Awkward Journey Transition
When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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Enough Kids Settled
Laughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
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Cry Laughing Musician
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
It’s the same thing, I think, whether it’s breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.
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Running Thinking Yoga
I 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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Fun Important Out Work
I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
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Avenue Fifth Traffic Walks
I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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Persons Pregnant
The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
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Different Ignore Lesson People
Do 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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Attractive Earth Know
I’ve never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you’re painting on a very big canvas.
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Character Doctors Strange
Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.
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Character People Play

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