I genuinely don't know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
Benedict CumberbatchThe world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
Benedict CumberbatchI had a very sparse comic upbringing - not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.
Benedict CumberbatchI had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.
Benedict Cumberbatch