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Benedict Cumberbatch Talks Doctor Strange; Oscars & Staying Grounded: “I’m Not Afraid To Tackle Darkness As Long As I Know There Is Space To Take That Off”


Benedict Cumberbatch Talks Dr Strange, Oscars, Staying Grounded: “I'm Not Afraid To Tackle Darkness As Long As I Know There Is Space To Take That Off”

Benedict Cumberbatch is at Saudi Arabia ’s Red Sea Film Festival this week for the MENA premiere of John Crowley’s tragic romance We Live In Time, starring Garfield and Florence Pugh, which he exec produced under his SunnyMarch banner. After hitting the red carpet in the port city of Jeddah on Monday evening in the company of Garfield, Cumberbatch was in the spotlight in his own right in an on-stage conversation today. Cumberbatch finally got into his groove on set when he started having fun and upped the banter with Downey, adding an unscripted “douchebag” to one of his lines, in response to the insults his character had been on the receiving end of until then.

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