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There's Still Nearly The Same Amount Of Slavery, If Not More, In The World Today, As There Was At The Height Of The Slave Trade.
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There's Still Nearly The Same Amount Of Slavery, If Not More, In The World Today, As There Was At The Height Of The Slave Trade.

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Quiet Moments
Family And Friends
Looking For Happiness Is A Sure Way To Sadness, I Think. You Have To Take Each Moment As It Comes.
Sadness
Thinking
Way
You Have To Sometimes Just Run With The Problem Rather Than Trying To Solve It With Hi-tech Wizardry And Lots Of Planning.
Running
Trying
Wizardry
The First Time We Did Cavalry Charge I Was So Breathless With Excitement I Nearly Fell Off The Horse. I Actually Saw Stars In Front Of My Eyes And Thought I Was Going To Faint. The Second Time I Had A Bit More Control But Was Still Giddy With Excitement. And The Third Time I Was An Emotional Wreck. I Had To Really Try Hard Not To Cry.
Horse
Stars
Eye
I Don't Want To Miss Things.
Missing
Want
I Tend To Have A Cup Of Tea, Try To Stop Worrying About What I Did Wrong, Cool Down And Will The Audience Back In As Soon As Possible.
Worry
Tea
Trying
If You Have An Over-preoccupation With Perception And Trying To Please People's Expectations, Then You Can Go Mad.
Expectations
People
Mad
Those Are More Universal Things Than Some Of The Characters I Play, Who Are Slightly Sociopathic. I Keep Reminding People I Can Do Ordinary.
Character
Play
People
I Always Seem To Be Cast As Slightly Wan, Ethereal, Troubled Intellectuals Or Physically Ambivalent Bad Lovers. But I'm Here To Tell You I'm Quite The Opposite In Real Life. In Fact I'm A F**king Fantastic Lover.
Kings
Real
Opposites
There Are Very Specific Demands, Though, In Television, And You Notice The Budget Constrictions. It's The Time Constraint And A Purse Constraint More Than Anything Else That You Notice. But The Ambition Of The Writing And, Hopefully, The Delivery Of It Gets Better And Better Because We Want To Outdo Ourselves To Keep Ahead Of A Very Expectant And Hungry Public.
Writing
Ambition
Get Better
I Did A Lot Of Acting At School And University, Then I Went To Drama School. It Was Quite A Normal Route.
Drama
School
Acting
Doctor Strange Is Selfish But He's Still Saving Lives.
Selfish
Doctors
Saving
I'm Very Proud Of The Work I Do, But I Genuinely Can't Involve Myself With An Audience As Early As Somebody Who's Not Part Of The Film Can. So There's That Side Of Theater That Appeals To Me, Where You Give Something And The Response To What You've Created Is A Communion Between You And The Dark That Contains However Many People. It's Thrilling Not Having A Reflection Other Than Through The People You're Communicating With. But People Ask, "what Do You Prefer?" And I Don't Have A Preference. I Love Them Both. I Really Do.
Dark
Reflection
People
There's A Huge Raft Of Roles That Actors In Our Culture Perform, And You Can See Any One Of About Three Hamlets In A Year. It's Not Something To Be Completely Daunted By.
Years
Three
Culture
I Want To Be Better At Staying Connected.
Want
Connected
Staying
There's Still Nearly The Same Amount Of Slavery, If Not More, In The World Today, As There Was At The Height Of The Slave Trade.
World
Slavery
Height
My Assessment Of Julian Assange Is A Professional One, Really, Of What He's Managed To Achieve, And The Idea That He Came Up With, Which Set The World Alight And Continues To Inspire Others Like Snowden [nsa Leaker Edward Snowden], About The Secret Goings-on That Are Done In Our Name With Our Tax Dollars On Behalf Of Big Business Or Politics. He Launched The Revolutionary Idea That Citizens Can Start To Claim Back A Paradigm For Questioning Power Structures And Those In Authority Through An Anonymous, Whistle-blowing Website.
Assessment
Nsa
Names
It Will Be Obvious To Anyone Who Sees It That He [doctor Strange] Earns That Cloak. You Think He's Doing All Right And Then You Realise That There's One Massive Lesson To Learn.
Thinking
Doctors
Lessons
I Was The Boy That Turned A Girlfriend Into The Most Celebrated Lesbian On Television. I Got So Much Stick For That.
Girlfriend
Boys
Television
Actor Is An Odd Profession, And Sometimes People Get Jealous, But I Haven't Really Experienced Any Of That. Everyone's Been Really Happy For Me, Which Is Really, Really Great.
Jealous
People
Sometimes
I Don't Call Myself An Expert Because I've Played Experts. I Know A Little Bit About Very Little. But It's Very Hard To Not Be Drawn Into Saying Something, Especially If It Has To Do With The Work.
I Don't Live Beyond My Means. I Enjoy Luxury And I Enjoy The Privilege Of It, When I Can Afford It, And I'm In The Situation Where It's Been Given To Me, But I'm Very Conscious Of What Is Wasteful.
Mean
Luxury
Privilege
Talking About Class Terrifies Me. There Is No Way Of Winning.
Winning
Talking
Class
Mystique Is Rare Now, Isn't It? There Aren't That Many Enigmas In This Modern World.
World
Modern
Enigma
I Had The Privilege Of Being Able To Choose, Or At Least Have The Opportunity To Work At, Being Anything But An Actor.
Opportunity
Actors
Able
It Was Great. I Got To Hang Out With Him [martin Freeman As Bilbo Baggins], And I Kept A Straight Face For A Bit And Then I Started Giggling Because I Know Martin, I Don't Know Bilbo. For Martin To Be Sitting There Playing Bilbo Is Amazing. He's Going To Be Amazing, He's Going To Be Fantastic In This Film.
Sitting
Faces
Film
I Think Playing Any Iconic Role When You're Stepping Into Big Shoes, Into The Shadow Of People Who Have Come Before You And You Can't Process That.
Thinking
Shoes
People
I Have Memories Of Clouds Whisking By While Sitting In The Pushchair On The Roof Of My Parents' Flat. I Loved It! I Just Loved Staring At The Clouds And Dreaming Away.
Dream
Memories
Clouds
I Love Doing Impersonations Of People.
People
A Woman Who Knows That She Doesn't Have To Get All Decked Out To Look Good Is Sexy. A Woman Who Can Make You Feel Smart With Her Conversation Skills Is Also Sexy. I Believe The Sense Of Humor Is Important.
Sexy
Smart
Believe
I Was Very Nervous About Doing The Entertainment Weekly Cover, Because I Thought, "okay, This Is The First Taste, This Is The First Visual Moment." By Then I Obviously Knew A Lot Of The More Iconic Moments In His Comic History, But Still It's Me. It's Not A Drawing, It's Not An Artist; It's Me And I'm Kinda Frightened, But It Seemed To Go Down.
Artist
Drawing
Taste
If I'm Playing Someone Who's Smart, Suddenly Every Character I've Played Is Smart. If I'm Playing A Bad Guy, Every Character Is A Bad Guy. I Suppose It's That Thing Where People Want To See A Through-line To Understand You. I Mean, You Know, I Have Played Pretty Ordinary People Too.
Smart
Character
Mean
I Never Was Obsessive About Anything I Watched When I Was A Kid, Except Maybe 'the A-team' And 'airwolf' And I Loved 'knight Rider' And Then Later 'baywatch.'
Team
Kids
Knights
I'm Not An Overnight Success. I've Been Doing It For 12 Years. It's Been Lovely And Varied So Far.
Years
Lovely
Overnight Success
Our Daily Lives Are So Mundane, We Get Taken Over By What Is Immediately In Front Of Us And We Don't See Beyond That.
Taken
Daily Life
Mundane
When Auditioning, I Try To Imagine That I'm The Only Person That They [directors] Are Seeing That Day Because It Can Be Overwhelming, In The Same Sense That It Could Be Overwhelming If You Try To Fulfil Everyone's Expectations Rather Than The People Closest To You In The Creative Process, Be It Your Director, Or Fellow Actors And The Writers. So, That's Kind Of It - I Try To Trick Myself Into Believing That No One Has Ever Gone There Before.
Believe
People
Expectations
If You Can't Jump On Board When The Ride's Going Past That's It, It Usually Goes By, So The Hugest Compliment They Paid Me Was To Come Back To Me. It Motivated Me To Try To Fulfill Their Faith.
Past
Trying
Boards
Metaphorically Speaking, It's Easy To Bump Into One Another On The Journey From A To B And Not Even Notice. People Should Take Time To Notice, Enjoy And Help Each Other.
Journey
People
Bumps
My First Agent Dissuaded Me From Calling Myself 'cumberbatch.' I Had Six Months Of Not Very Productive Time With Her, So I Changed Agents. The New One Said, 'why Aren't You Using Your Family Name? It's A Real Attention-grabber.' I Worried, 'how Much Is It Going To Cost To Put My Name In Lights?' But Then I Decided That's Not My Problem.
Real
Light
Names
I Got Live Tweeted Once By Someone Who Was Opposite My Home In Some Rented Accommodation. He Was Actually Describing On Twitter What I Was Doing. 'i Took A Shirt Off, I Went To The Window, I Put A Shirt Back On... ' And I've Got Blinds In My Flat!
Home
Opposites
Window
Maybe It's Because I Was An Only Child, But I've Always Wanted Kids.
Children
Kids
Only Child
I Was Very Keen To Work On The Script With Scott Derrickson And [c. Robert] Cargill, And Working Out The Important Story Beats, Changing Lines, Upping The Comedy, Changing The Pace, All Of That Was Great Fun.
Fun
Work Out
Important
Fame Is A Weird One. You Need To Distance Yourself From It. People See A Value In You That You Don't See Yourself.
Distance
People
Needs
To Get A Horse To Hit A Mark Without A Rider, To Get It To Stand Up, To Get It To Rear, To Get It To Pick Up A Bucket And Bring It Over Is Amazing. It's Hard Work And Very Rewarding But Can Be Dangerous.
Horse
Hard Work
Buckets
I Understand From Those Who Adore Him, He [julian Assange] Has A Great Sense Of Humor Which Rarely Gets An Airing Because He's Dealing With Such Serious Issues.
Issues
Serious
Sense Of Humor
You Let Things Run In Order To Have Some Sanity And Be Able To Do Your Work And Not Feel Pre-judged.
Running
Order
Able
Honestly, It's Very Satisfying, And I'm Very, Very Happy About How Successful The Last Few Years Have Been... It's Great For The People Who Supported Me Early On To See The Success I'm Enjoying Now.
Successful
Years
People
There's A Heroic Amount Of Effort That Goes Into Making Him [doctor Strange] A Superhero By The End Of The Film.
Doctors
Superhero
Effort
[while Voicing Cartoons] You Have To Lose Your Sanity And Inhibitions And Any Kind Of Dignity And Just Throw Yourself Around A Bit.
Cartoon
Dignity
Kind
Pull The Hair On My Head The Wrong Way, And I Would Be On My Knees Begging For Mercy. I Have Very Sensitive Follicles.
Hair
Would Be
Knees
[season 4 Of Sherlock Holmes Will Be] Myopically Dark. You're Talking About The End Of The Universe Darkness. You Can't See In Front Of You And Would Walk Into Everything Dark.
Dark
Talking
Ends
When Are You Ever Settled Enough To Have Kids?
Kids
Enough
Thus, A Vision Of The Whole Gradually Grew For Me That Was Nourished By The Various Experiences And Realizations I Had Encountered Along My Theological Path. I Rejoiced To Be Able To Say Something Of My Own, Something New And Yet Completely Within The Faith Of The Church. The Feeling Of Aquiring A Theological Vision That Was Ever More Clearly My Own Was The Most Wonderful Experience Of Those Years.
Years
Feelings
Vision
Being On Set Is Quite Difficult, Because It's So Big And You've Got To Try And Relax, Which Isn't Easy When You Know You're In A Massive Film. I Was Terrified For Quite A Long Time.
Long
Trying
Relax
I'm Really Not Sherlock Holmes. I Look A Little Bit Like Him And Sound Like Him.
Sound
Looks
Littles
For Brain Surgeons It's Particularly Difficult To Deal With Failure. It Was Fascinating To Learn About That Whole World.
Brain
World
Difficult
I've Gone Up Two Suit Sizes. The Character I'm Playing, He's Strong, I Can Say That Much. I've Changed My Physique A Bit, So That Requires Eating Like A Foie Gras Goose, Well Beyond Your Appetite. Providing I Don't Feel Too Ill, I Then Work Out Two Hours A Day With A Phenomenal Trainer. It's The L.a. Way.
Strong
Character
Two
There's Another Weight Of Us Being In The Public Eye, Which Is This Presumption That, Because Your Work And Your Promotion Work Is Very Public, Your Private Life Should Be, Too.
Eye
Weight
Promotion
I Tell My Wife All My Secrets.
Wife
Secret
My Wife
I'll Always Do 'sherlock' - It's Something I'm Not Going To Give Up On.
Giving Up
Giving
I Realised Quite Early On That, Although I Wasn't Trying To Make A Career Speciality Of It, I Was Playing Slightly Asexual, Sociopathic Intellectuals.
Careers
Trying
Realised
It's Great For The People Who Supported Me Early On To See The Success I'm Enjoying.
People
Enjoy
I Wasn't Born Into Land Or Titles, Or New Money, Or An Oil Rig.
Land
Oil
Titles
I'm Not Loyal To One Genre. I Want To Mix It Up.
Loyal
Want
Genre
Sometimes Being Away, On Location, I Feel Like I'm Away For Much Of My Own Life. I Want To Be Better At Staying Connected.
Want
Location
Sometimes
I'd Shift Disciplines, Whether It Was Musical Instruments Or Sports Or Whatever, And It's The Same With That.
Sports
Reading
Discipline
Even In Cerebral Roles That Are Seemingly Intelligent And Nothing Else, I Think It's So Important To Wrap Your Characterization In A Physical Form As Well.
Intelligent
Thinking
Important
I'm Sort Of Focused On My Long-term Goal Of Carving Out A Career That's For Life, Rather Than Being A Flash In The Pan.
Careers
Long
Goal
I'm Quite Surprised By How Many People Grew Up With This Character [doctor Strange ].
Character
Doctors
People
I've Always Wanted To Play A Spy, Because It Is The Ultimate Acting Exercise. You Are Never What You Seem.
Exercise
Play
Spy
Even Though Doctor Strange Is An Established Character, When You're Doing An Origin Story There's A Lot Of Room For Manoeuvre.
Character
Doctors
Stories
Someone Will Always Hate What I Say. There’s Always Going To Be Somebody Spitting Blood About My Wooden-faced, Toffee-named, Crappy Acting.
Hate
Blood
Acting
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