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Benedict Cumberbatch speaks about his monstrous whodunnit Eric which involves a missing child, a distraught father and an imaginary creature who might hold the key to solving the case
Benedict Cumberbatch, from London, is about to film one of the most important and emotionally challenging scenes in his dark and powerful new Netflix thriller Eric.
Benedict Cumberbatch is about to film one of the most important and emotionally challenging scenes in his dark and powerful new Netflix thriller Eric, but as the seconds tick away he's laughing, joking and playing football with a security guard on set a few yards from where the action is due to take place. The show's director, Lucy Forbes, fears her leading man won't be able to find the intensity required for the scene, in which Benedict's character Vincent Anderson is visiting the school his nine-year-old son Edgar, who has just gone missing, attended. Vincent, who was already worried about falling ratings on Good Day Sunshine and his troubled marriage to wife Cassie (Gaby Hoffmann), is a man on the edge, and Edgar's disappearance sends him spiralling into a vortex of heavy drinking and hallucinations.
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