First look at Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange
Actor said that visually 'there’s going to be crazy sh*t going on.'
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Marvel has dished out the first image of Benedict Cumberbatch in Doctor Strange, seeing Cumberbatch sporting Stephen Strange’s familiar goatee, blue tunic, red cape and wearing the Eye of Agamatto amulet around his neck.
Released by Entertainment Weekly, the first look comes very early indeed given that production only began in November.
The Marvel movie’s impressive cast includes Tilda Swinton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams and Mads Mikkelsen, with Sinister’s Scott Derrickson directing. Literally anyone in Hollywood will do a comic book superhero movie if you just keep bazookaing cash into their home.
Cumberbatch admitted that he’s still trying to get to grips with Strange’s gesticulatory spell-casting.
"I’m still in the infancy of learning all that,” he told EW.
“It was like, okay, I’ve got to keep throwing these poses, these spells, these rune-casting things, everything he does physically. I’m thinking, there’s going to be a huge amount of speculation and intrigue over the positioning of that finger as opposed to it being there, or there. And I’m still working on that. We haven’t played any of those scenes yet. I felt really self-conscious. But, then, by the end, it was great. It’s like anything, you just have to experiment.”
The Sherlock actor promised some psychedelic visual effects in the movie, adding: “There’s going to be crazy sh*t going on.”
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