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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.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Lines are very difficult to learn.
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Difficult Learn Lines
I’m sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It’s an amazing discipline.
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Character Discipline Doctors
All the backstories are there but not talked about.
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About People Stories Talk
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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Character Doctors Suffering
I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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Discipline Reading Sports
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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Actor Class Looks
I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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Land Oil Titles
If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
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Boards Past Trying
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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Costume Feet Party
Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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Children Kids Only Child
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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Coats Given Hats
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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Country Grim Reaper Motorbike
I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.
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Kings Opposites Real
I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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Children Persons Reality
Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you’re doing an origin story there’s a lot of room for manoeuvre.
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Character Doctors Stories
New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.
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Beautiful Country Crazy

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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