After hitting the red carpet of the Red Sea International Film Festival, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as executive producer of the latest SunnyMarch production We Live In Time, Benedict Cumberbatch attended a panel this past Tuesday (December 10), where he talked about Sherlock, Doctor Strange, Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, success and more.
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You can watch the panel below:
A couple of videos from the panel:
Some quotes from the talk:
Elsewhere in the conversation about his experience as Doctor Strange, the actor recalled first going to set and being “overwhelmed” by the talent of the crew. “The wealth of talent you are surrounded by is a little humbling and scary,” he continued, saying that he “hates” the sentence “the artist on set,” uttered when above-the-line talent enters the set. “The artist has been on set have been on set since this set was assembled, painted, decorated, filled with smoke-lit camera… We are one part of many others of artistry.”
It was just looking at Robert Downey, Jr. and, ‘How does he do it?’ It’s extraordinary, and there is a way that he does it, and I learned that, and it’s incredible. But also, to watch him with Tom Holland, who was hot off the success of the first Spiderman film, and they were bam, bam, bam.
It’s very important to hold on to the things that help you understand who you are as you evolve through life, as a human being, and outside of your work, and especially in my line of work, and especially with the kind of focus that it gives you.
Playing Alan Turing in Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game, he first experienced not having to really act because he really felt the pain of the computer scientist after he was chemically castrated for being homosexual, the actor recalled. “I couldn’t stop crying because I really connected to what he must have been feeling,” Cumberbatch shared.
Looking ahead, he touted such upcoming projects as The Roses opposite Olivia Colman and Wes Anderson’s next film, with the working or maybe final title The Phoenician Scheme — Cumberbatch wasn’t sure.
