There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.

Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you're doing an origin story there's a lot of room for manoeuvre.

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a "political exile," as he calls himself.

Cumberbatch - it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn't it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn't keen on me keeping it.

To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.

I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting on a very big canvas.