Benedict Cumberbatch Goes Undercover on the Internet | GQ

hey I'm better than Cumberbatch I'm going undercover on the Internet it's actually me first up Twitter do you think the doctor strange flu movements spells were choreographed or was it just barely come about improvising now some thought went into them I think I think we're kind of done with the kind of circular movement will see that evolving I think although the hand movements in general the bigger spells that was really carefully choreographed and it was Julian who's this amazing Tata which is the word before kind of like breakdancing he's an expert in creating incredible shapes and singing possible conjunctions an opposite thing is at hand wrist and then receiver he'd give me something that was impossible and I'd say look I'm an actor and we break it down into comebacks so that I could actually do it and it looks reasonably good and like I had some possession of what I was supposed to be doing next question what's your favorite part about being on set with the Avengers my favorite part about being on set with the Avengers is the camaraderie and the companionship is just a fun place to be odd like long hours but you spend a lot of time in isolation getting ready and prep being bring the costume on and the makeup can take a long time and then you're down you're on the field and you're doing what you're doing with an amazing like this thank you so it's kind of inspiring for the carotids and once you've got over being starstruck it's just a really fun day in the office as you can imagine no but fun Ryan Fuller was - no ha ha have you ever seen Benedict Cumberbatch tried to say penguin Daisy you just did burning Baumann Marie that's her name says better than commotion the current war as opposed to the current war it looks interesting but why are so many u.s. citizens being portrayed by Brits maybe that's just perception Benedict Cumberbatch plays come so soon I don't know I didn't get to share quite a lot of traffic in that department my friend Bernadine you know Wall Street gets to play market action I don't know listen it's it's a antigen job and you get to be a lot of things other than yourself and not when I drop it then you just have to be good at it and if you are getting you get trusted to do something like playing an American icon like Edison we work very hard to honor the trust and hope that people have in you so I don't know if it is just Brits meeting Australians as well there are lots of other than American actors playing American roles but I do think if the traffic goes both ways and that's a very healthy state of affairs culturally you shouldn't all be typecast or stick tight I know sweetie do you think Robert Downey jr. and Benedict Cumberbatch ever share Sherlock Holmes story they'll fight over us are we tending to fight over who the best shot occurs and I'm really lucky you're working if two franchises playing iconic characters and you know Johnny Lee Miller's also a friend and it's interesting I had to have a real discussion about that what's your name really I mean yeah we've set up funny and as we get to play these characters and here we are doing something together and a completely different world different characters it's a bit of dancer isn't it shoulda said yeah we do and I'm the best probably IMDB font and misinformation okay so my five trademarks are parenting that I've got a deep baritone voice piercing blue-green eyes and sharp cheekbones often portrays posh upper-class figures and I'm tearing wasn't necessarily upper-class to strangers very privileged and very smart but necessary upper-class is more the class and money and I guess in this country yeah American posh people are just people who aren't upper-class I'd like to mix it up it also uses highly intelligent and pivoted appearances but yeah I got an odd face maybe that's why I get to pretend to be smart but I'm player character coming up in trouble win in a film called ironbark who's working-class salesman who worked as well at the greasy fast polka being a middle-class salesman married into somewhat from the upper classes but still he was basically a salesman for industrial goods and ended up being a conduit for mi6 turning cold war and making plans of the highest ranking started officially determined Oleg Penkovsky in Russia and he was a very ordinary man doing an extraordinary thing so take that IMDB he experienced a terrifying carjack in South Africa well finger to nose at the other 2005 he wrote about the experience in and asked for the prince who was trust which he is an ambassador a true tritter drew about how music can inspire you in a particular piece that radiated came on by accident whilst we were being driven rode by three guys coming to rake the car pooler's worth toss up and psychologically kind of torture us and give us a pretty rough ride thank God not too much violence I was put in the boot of car my hands tied behind my back and gun put to my head so that was a sparky night in a very big country famous for my unwritten impressions yes God rest his soul sometimes doesn't that - you're looking for the infinite I really say this it's gonna be awful I hate on TV if you can know that if you can remember that in the chaos it will thank you and give with grace and ease I don't know I must have been tired stoned or jet like that all of those things I think you can remember that in the chaos what chaos chaos of Fame I mean you don't look for the infinite and fame I don't know I really don't know where the context of this was or even if I said it and trust me the amount of I'm credited with saying that I haven't said is unbelievable reddit what what are the best names you've had for Benedict Cumberbatch anymore so we don't have anymore goodbye reddit if Keanu Reeves buddy that how much were in a movie what would the pop I don't know we were friends and kicked ass I don't know Wikipedia he subscribes to Buddhist philosophy and has expressed affinity for meditation - yes absolutely yeah Cumberbatch did not achieve international recognition until the first series of shock in 2010 since been called the thinking woman's crumpet yeah I was very weird that that sudden moment and it was it's all it's the first time I've really experienced the live nature of a recorded broadcast it was just bizarre like internet reaction I didn't really know what Twitter was until that night I didn't know that there was this sort of space for a live reaction from the audience kind of thinking this just blew up in that moment to the point that I thought we were gonna walk out the door and have like press abseiling out of helicopter laughter bells going off in headphones because it was so loud and yet I just walked down those it's a slightly wet empty straight normal life continued it's great that series got so much love and our work was rewarded and we got to do so much other things as artists that freedom is great with the cost of that is Fame and that's a weird unruly beast in September 2016 appear on stage at Pink Floyd remember David Gilmour join one of the musicians shows in London held at the roller ball he sang lead vocals and comfortably numb' singing the first section originally sung by Roger Waters and I'm proud because I literally I survived to tell you that that is true I thought I was gonna have a heart attack I was looking for guys in like flurries to de literally know where my art was medically because it was like that this is it that's it that sort of non feeling this shortness of breath my chest is tightening I'm going to collapse I'd watched this entire concert and it was a gift to any fan of Gilmour and then I what a lot of people go what sharks gotta sing to us you know it was very very weird but then I got into it it was amazing but I literally thought I was gonna die before I went on so sorry I just I wanted to take that one is it like it isn't like a public forum where people answer them what got you I think I dunno this is better than Chemosh the best Sherlock Holmes of all time that's that's nice which better than come about to character role do you like the best I don't your favorite sorry you'll have to decide these things or cure you're a teacher why doesn't Benedict Cumberbatch have any social media accounts it's terrible it takes too much time like we do it how many times they're better they can much read Sherlock Holmes almost again in secara pretty much every time he did a series anything that it touched on I'd go back to the Canon and just kind of brutal around in it and that's the best research you could possibly do for my comic role like that it's all that all that Watson recorded it all thank internet for questions goodbye it's not really as a hologram I'll give up the chef

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Length: 7min 56sec (476 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 31 2019

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[u/mysticlentil]

I love how his answers are so long and rambly

[u/MrsSaffronReynolds]

For a brief second, I was terrified he would check out his own subReddit!Whew.

[u/Annie_Benlen]

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