The (actually quite lovely) Benedict Cumberbatch discusses staying cruel for Jane Campion's ThePoweroftheDog, the time Doctor Strange told off Iron Man and his onslaught of new projects:
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness“It’s crazy how much I’ve got coming out,” Cumberbatch says. “I suppose there’s a mild thrum of overload anxiety of, ‘Will people be …’ It’s just a lot. It’s just a lot of me. But you know what? If you can stand by the work and be proud of it, and if it’s varied and diverse, then, great. You just roll with it.”
Campion had appreciated Cumberbatch’s work since seeing him play an unhappy aristocrat on the 2012 BBC miniseries, and when word reached the director that Cumberbatch was interested in her project, “I didn’t know how much of that was actually organized by his agents, or by his wife,” she says. “In fact, maybe it was his wife, because she wanted to see him as a cowboy.” Campion knew that Cumberbatch had the emotional range and the presence for the part.
Cumberbatch’s gameness for new experiences endeared him to Campion. “He allows himself to be not perfect, and that’s extremely courageous,” she says. “I loved him for that. A lot of it was just showing up naked, a long way from where we needed to be and figuring out, ‘OK, how are we going to get there?’ And knowing that failure was not an option.”
Cumberbatch’s parents, Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham, are both actors who worked steadily in British TV and theater when he was a child, and they played his parents in some episodes of. Watching his parents’ careers informed Cumberbatch’s sense that his success could be fleeting. “I had a great deal of respect for the vagaries of the profession,” he says. “It was very peripatetic. It was feast or famine. It was Dad leaving holidays to go and take the job or audition for an advert.
Cumberbatch is by nature an adventurer, and he’s had a few close calls. At 19, he spent six months in India teaching English to Tibetan Buddhists and living in a monastery. On one disastrous weekend backpacking trip there, he and some friends got lost for a day and a half on a mountain pass, got altitude sickness and contracted giardia from some food a shepherd gave them.
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