You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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 think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own - they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
Benedict CumberbatchOur daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.
Benedict CumberbatchI 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.
Benedict CumberbatchThe training gave me the building blocks to get through it. A production of that scale, in a theater that big, you are going to struggle to keep your voice at first-run perfectness. All that work I did - the pull-ups and pushups - helped keep my body fit. Hamlet, the show, is a cardiovascular workout of about three hours, never mind the mental, soul-crushing element of it.
Benedict Cumberbatch