It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI was brought up in a world of privilege.
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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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If I’d had fame early on, I’d have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
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It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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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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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
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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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There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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There’s a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
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I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
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Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I’m away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
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[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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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.
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I keep myself amused and others confused
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I 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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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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I’ve turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I’ve made social faux pas a plenty. I’ve put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
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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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[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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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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Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn’t a child actor brat; I didn’t travel with them in the circuit. But I got a look into their world, so I did know what I was getting into, to an extent. And they are a constant source of grounding.
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I don’t wear a mask, I don’t have a suit. It’s not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!
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This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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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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