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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIt’s an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who’s likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He’s funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It’s a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.
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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.
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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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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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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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I realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
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Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
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Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own – they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
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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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Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.
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Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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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’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
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I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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