I’m not very geeky. I’m quite homespun. I would say I’m more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.
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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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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
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The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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Live a life less ordinary.
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I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
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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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I tell my wife all my secrets.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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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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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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I think I’ve had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I’ve said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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