To B. Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch: ‘I’ve seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over ‘

Benedict Cumberbatch and The Imitation Game cast photoshoot for Desert Sun Magazine.  [UHQ 1&2] & TY Sas for the heads up!

Filming the Christmas Special, 7 February, 2015

I’d tell it to be quiet

In the morning

Delicious donations to charities that I care about

I love working with actors I’ve worked with before that become friends - you can take risks without fear of self-consciousness. There is such an extraordinary abundance of talented actors and actresses that it’s very hard to single out any individuals - it’d be wrong to even try. I loved working with Rebecca Hall on Parade’s End and would gladly repeat the experience on any opportunity. Like Meryl Streep, she has a complete command of character and it was utterly inspiring. She lifts everyone’s work ethics to her standards. She’s a mate and I adore her. It goes without saying that Kiera was wonderful to work with again in exactly the same vein.

I have an English accent, I’m very good at hand-to-hand combat in close quarters, I have an occasional intolerance for cuteness - please don’t ramp that up this afternoon. It’s been a long week.

I was alright in school - there were better. But we got inventive! Especially after taking origami classes. But pretty planes don’t always fly the best.

Yes, I am! I’ve been sat next to John Malkovich, a true hero of mine, marveling at his calm, measured, beautifully precise language as he talks through the process of playing a sociopathic octopus. What’s not to love about that as a day’s work!

If I could survive it, the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution. That pace of change, evolution, progressiveness. Especially when we moved towards abolishing the slave trade and then slavery. The human cost of the advances of the era were too high and horrendous to contemplate let alone live through and wish upon the world again. But what an exciting time to be alive in to witness the pioneering adventures, inventions, revolutions of political and social thought - how alive all forms of culture were in these great leaps forward in various aspects of the human world. It seems very exciting from a distance - maybe I’d regret it the moment I stepped out of the time machine.

Broken glass, barbed wire, and a little bit of grit

No

He’s here! Our Dashboard Confessions with Benedict Cumberbatch (the voice of Agent Classified in Penguins of Madagascar) starts NOW!

HQ - Benedict Cumberbatch ’The Imitation Game’ film photocall, Los Angeles, America - 15 Nov 2014