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I think it's fair to say that, yeah, I'm playing Doctor Strange, I get there.

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Benedict Cumberbatch
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
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Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch
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I know that might sound perverse because I played Julian Assange but, honestly, I don't think it would be fair for me to judge the man. I realize that makes me a bit of a hypocrite because I was portraying him a certain way, but we were always open to the fact that this was an interpretation, not any kind of exact evidence of who the man was.
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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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It's great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I'm enjoying.
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