Benedict Cumberbatch plays Doctor Strange in the Marvel Universe, and he recalls his reaction to a surprise the studios gave last year.
During last year’s Comic-Con panel, his co-star Robert Downey Jr. out as Victor von Doom.
In an interview with Blackthe British actor revealed he didn’t know about this earlier and texted studio boss Kevin Feige: “‘What the hell?’ And then quickly added: ‘Well what the hell’. I mean, well what-the-****.”
Elsewhere in the interview, he reflected on his approach to taking on the mysterious processor and shared what he learned from Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
“I learned a lot from seeing how comfortable and improvisational they are,” said the Academy-nominated actor. “It’s hard because you have this huge apparatus around you, but it’s so important.”
He also shared that he bonded with Robert over their shared history of playing different versions of Sherlock Holmes.
“We had a gas about being the two Sherlocks on set,” he shared. “But there was some dialogue where someone turned to us and said, ‘No shit, Sherlock’.”
“Well, we took out all the meta stuff. We just said, ‘No, no, no. It’s better to leave it for the fan fiction,'” he concluded.
