We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWe all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHSometimes being away, on location, I feel like I’m away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHConan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’ve been reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWe’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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHScott 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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI had a very sparse comic upbringing – not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in “I have cumberbatched the UK audience” apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It’s crazy and fun and very flattering.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIt’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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’ve said for quite a long time I’d like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we’ve been away two years, let’s f*** around with his outfit, let’s f*** around with his haircut, let’s do something different.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHDo I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he’s dealing with such serious issues.
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