I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.
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Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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It’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
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I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
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The world of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
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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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My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad’s performance of the book.
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[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It’s an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It’s great. Yeah, I’m excited.
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[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he’s very loved by people who know him.
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There are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.
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It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
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I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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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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