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Benedict Cumberbatch
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
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Film Actor
Film Producer
Stage Actor
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Hammersmith
London
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch
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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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It's great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I'm enjoying.
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For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
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I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
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I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.
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It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
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I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.
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I was never geeky about anything.
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I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself.
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I'm aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don't email saying, When are we doing next film? I'm excited to see.
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Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They're all physically inhabited, for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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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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Only when Stephen Strange has his accident and everything that he's ever had in his life falls apart that he becomes pretty monstrous. It's the self-loathing rage of a wounded animal and he doesn't have a coping mechanism at all. It ties in with the discipline and the magic of this world.
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Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.
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