“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.”

"Benedict Cumberbatch interview" in TimeOut https://www.timeout.com/kuala-lumpur/film/benedict-cumberbatch-interview (21 November 2016)

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