Cumberbatch to the VG: – the Wife is my super hero – VG

LONDON (VG) Benedict Cumberbatch (40) had maratondager with the grueling training, the preparation of the superheltfilmen Doctor Strange in the daytime, and Hamlet in the three hours on stage at night. So was it home to his wife and his newborn son.

the 40-year-old from London is the british most hottest export for the time being. He is followed everywhere by the fans, who even call themselves “Cumberbitches”, and he goes from one major role in Hollywood to the other.

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He is classically trained, and has all the time been on the theatre stage after the devastating breakthrough of the BBC series “Sherlock”. VG meet him in London in connection with the superheltfilmen “Doctor Strange”, and in it we meet a rather muscular version of Cumberbatch. Is it boring or fun to train themselves up, will the VG know.

– I loved it! The recording happened in a very hectic period in my life. I trained kung fu, I had manusmøter and meetings with the other actors in the morning, I taught myself “tutting”, a fairly complicated dance, ” says the actor.

He speaks softly but intensely, on the in – and exhalation, and continues:

In the evening, I played “Hamlet” in three hours, then driving home in London traffic to a newborn baby.

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Cumberbatch is married with operaregissøren Sophie Hunter, and together they had their first child in June of last year. Last week it became known that the couple waiting number two. The frantic job – and småbarnsperioden needed a trained man, ” says Cumberbatch.

I had to be trained, simply to keep the health with such a program. It was so in six months. In addition, I ran with the yoga to keep your body flexible.

Film out of the ordinary

DIFFERENT SUPERHERO: Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of the arrogant Doctor Strange.

Photo: Marvel

“Doctor Strange” is a superheltfilm out of the ordinary, with far more supernatural and spiritual aspects, and far fewer major cities which are even with the earth. Cumberbatch plays a very arrogant neurosurgeon who, after a horrific car accident can no longer use their hands. When conventional medicine can’t help seek out the mysterious enclave of Kamar-Taj for healing. But the enclave is not just a place to find peace and healing, it is also the centre of a battle between the dark forces that threaten to eradicate our existence.

Many “Sherlock”fans will probably see some similarities between the two characters, the clever and arrogant as they are. Cumberbatch himself is not disagree, but is careful to distinguish the two.

Workaholics

VERSATILE: Benedict Cumberbatch punched through as Sherlock Holmes in the BBC series, but still stands on the theatre stage in between.

Photo: Joel Ryan, AP

– Both are struggling with arbeidsnarkomani which makes that they do not release into the outside world. But Doctor Strange has a sex life, he is quite charming even though he is egocentric. And then he has the american accent, he walks differently and is bigger and stronger in a more conventional way.

Cumberbatch is even a buddhist, and have a stay behind in a tibetan munkekloster. He was familiar with buddhism when he traveled to India and taught English to monks in a monastery. He practices meditation and “mindfulness”

– As a tool to hopefully become a better person and be better in the job. If one can find a kind of sanctuary in your own mind, and come out of it with a little more courage and empathy, that’s when you can make the advantage for those around you, philosophize he set.

He tells a long story about when he høydesyk got lost in Nepal. He is very happy to be able to return to the country to play the part of “Doctor Strange”.

Pursued in his sleep

” It was fantastic to come back, especially after the earthquake (in the spring of 2015, journ.anm). It was important for me that we came back there to film in order to show that Kathmandu is still alive. It is a big project for Marvel to move production so far away, but they got it to be functional. I was really reminded of the trip I had 20 years ago.

Cumberbatch has now a wide variety of major Hollywood roles to his credit. Among other things, in Morten Tyldums “The Imitation Game”. Roles, both in theatre, TV and film, pursuing him in his sleep.

They pop up, but with delay! So “Hamlet”-the dreams came when I played in “Doctor Strange”. The further away you get from a character you’ve played, the more focuses the brain on the. “Oh, do you remember the dialogue? How would you like to play this scene without clothes on?”